NEW DELHI, March 12. A Colorado- based company says about 600,000 people have scanned its satellite images for clues to the fate of the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that disappeared Saturday.
DigitalGlobe described it as crowdsourcing campaign to help search crews, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported
According to the report, the company said Tuesday it plans daily updates of the images on the search website, http://www.tomnod.com.
Users can tag images on the website if they see wreckage, life rafts, oil slicks or other evidence.
Shay Har-Noy, DigitalGlobe's senior director for geospatial big data, says the photos had 10 million page views by Tuesday afternoon.
Har-Noy described the response as overwhelming and said that the company's servers are having trouble keeping up with the demand.
US government agencies have access to its images as well, said the report.
MAS Flight MH370, carrying 227 passengers, including five Indian nationals, and 12 crew, went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing about an hour after taking off from the KL International Airport at 12.41 am Saturday.
It should have landed in Beijing at 6.30 am the same day.BERNAMA
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