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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Artificial Intelligence is being deployed to assistance find the huntsman who went missing aft leaving for the Fresno County mountains.
It has present been implicit a week since 65-year-old Ron Dailey near his Selma home.
He was past tracked to Dinkey Creek Road successful Shaver Lake, the last determination his cellphone pinged earlier helium mislaid service.
Since then, teams person searched agrarian upland roads through snowfall and mud.
Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig says drones, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and adjacent the Air National Guard's Black Hawk person been deployed to assistance successful the effort.
That effort, Magsig says, has spanned astir 280 quadrate miles. But acknowledgment to teamwork and resources, that hunt country is getting narrowed down.
"They person reduced immoderate of that hunt country due to the fact that they person been capable to hunt important portions of that area. So the container that they're moving successful is getting smaller, but the resources that they're utilizing is increasing."
The caller resource? AI.
"Tomorrow, we are hoping to person the assistance of the Civil Air Patrol. The Civil Air Patrol volition alert implicit those areas that person not been thoroughly searched yet, and they volition photograph the existent hunt area. Those photographs volition beryllium enactment done AI exertion to look for immoderate benignant of variances wherever determination could beryllium a conveyance oregon thing that's spotted, which is unusual," helium said.
Search parties volition past beryllium deployed to the areas wherever variances whitethorn beryllium spotted.
Dailey is 5 feet 7 inches tall, 220 pounds, with brownish eyes, brownish hair, and a achromatic beard. He was near for his travel successful a metallic 2002 Dodge Dakota with California licence sheet 16028S2.
If anyone sees him, his truck, oregon immoderate motion of him, telephone the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office astatine 559-600-3111.
