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The Bone Finders: How the Relentless Searching of Drone Imagery for Missing Hikers Made a Difference for One Family

The Bone Finders: How the Relentless Searching of Drone Imagery for Missing Hikers Made a Difference for One Family

"I was tired of looking at the same real estate over and over again,” he says, “with good but not great imagery." Too many times he believed he’d found a bone, or a backpack, or a tent belonging to O’Sullivan only to be deflated once ground searchers hiked in to his coordinates and discovered the bone was a stick, the backpack was a rock, and the tent was a tarp abandoned by illegal marijuana cultivators.