Netizens turning to satellite imaging site to locate missing Malaysian jet

Netizens have reportedly taken to satellite imagery crowdsourcing platform to help locate the missing Malaysian Airline MH370.

The Tomnod site is allowing volunteers comb through satellite images and tag objects of interest and solve real-world problems.

According to Cnet, Tomnod and DigitalGlobe, which operates the world's most advanced constellation of commercial imaging satellites, officially kicked off a crowdsourcing campaign to help find the FlightMH370, which disappeared from radar screens an hour after take off from Kuala Lumpur enroute to Beijing and has 239 passengers on board.

While the investigators are still looking for any clue that could lead to the whereabouts of the plane, volunteers could use Tomnod and help in tagging important locations and objects, such as potential airplane wreckage, in available satellite images, which are being updated regularly.

DigitalGlobe, also provides its imagery to Google and by weekend, its satellites collected around 3,200 square kilometers of imagery from the Gulf of Thailand, where the plane was last located, that can be analyzed by the Tomnod community.

The report said that DigitalGlobe-acquired Tomnod was used by thousands of volunteers to tag 60,000 objects in the first 24 hours after a typhoon hit the Philippines in November 2013.