‘These discoveries came not from tip-offs from anonymous sources, but by training a computer to recognize known spy planes, then setting it loose on large quantities of flight-tracking data compiled by the website Flightradar24.’
Buzzfeed reports on how they used machine learning to conduct an original investigation of surveillance aircraft being deployed in the USA.
We Trained A Computer To Search For Hidden Spy Planes. This Is What It Found | BUZZFEED | August 7, 2017 | by Peter Aldhous