The project was launched in February 2012 as part of
Jill Tarter's 2009
TED Prize Wish. SETILive uses data provided by the
Allen Telescope Array and presents it visually so that the public can collectively search for radio signals. The project focuses on radio frequencies that automated detection systems ignore due to the prevalence of man-made noise. Jill Tarter hopes that human analysts will be able to detect low
signal-to-noise transmissions which confuse computers. Users classify signals as: broken, continuous, or parallel. Users then must classify the signal as: erratic, wide, or narrow. Many of the signals are just satellites that give off energy. == Decoys ==