Some of the most memorable interactive maps of 2016 were the ones created past times Buzzfeed to illustrate their Spies inwards the Skies investigation into the role of spy planes past times the FBI together with the DHS.
The FBI together with the Department of Homeland Security brand daily flights over American cities inwards spy planes equipped alongside high-resolution video cameras together with jail cellular telephone telephone tracking equipment. In their investigation into the role of spy planes Buzzfeed used information from Flightradar24 to position but about 200 federal aircraft. Using the Flightradar24 information Buzzfeed was together with thus able to map out some of the flights undertaken past times these federal planes every bit they spy on American cities.
Now Buzzfeed has too used this information to develop a neural network to search for other FBI, DHS, police describe together with armed forces spy planes. The Buzzfeed neural network was fed information from the spy planes identified inwards their initial investigation together with from normal commercial flights. The neural network was together with thus tasked alongside identifying distinctive flying patterns flora inwards the spy bird flying paths together with non inwards the flying paths from the other planes. The Buzzfeed algorithm identified patterns (such every bit the tight turning rates of spy planes circling areas of interest) which could live on used to position other spy planes.
Once the neural network had learnt how to position spy planes from flying path information Buzzfeed laid upward it publish on the flight-tracking information compiled past times Flightradar24.
You tin larn to a greater extent than close the projection inwards BuzzFeed News Trained H5N1 Computer To Search For Hidden Spy Planes. This Is What We Found. The article includes information on some of the spy planes identified past times the Buzzfeed algorithm together with static maps showing where these planes cause got been spying.
