Gadget Lab: A Human Solution to a Technical Problem

Nathaniel Raymond and his team were watching what they expected was a massacre unfolding from Half a World Away. They needed photographic proof, something that unlike a memory wouldn't fade in the fullness of time. But clouds hovered so Nathaniel begged the satellite company to override the system and leave the satellite cameras on. And when the shot came in, it was three soccer fields size grades. This cocktail of human analysts and open source intelligence is helping him make war crimes cases stick.