{ "id": "AIBD-0033", "title": "CNSAS Piemonte drone imagery analyzed with AI software, likely TEXSAR's ADIAT, locates missing surgeon Nicola Ivaldo on Monviso after ten months", "summary": "AI analysis of 2,600 drone frames flagged a red helmet in the Perotti couloir at 3,150 m; Ivaldo's body was recovered by 31 July 2025.", "date_observed": "2025-07-31", "date_basis": "unassessed", "date_precision": "unassessed", "benefit_status": null, "source_collection": null, "source_entry": null, "account": "Nicola Ivaldo was a surgeon aged 64 according to the Club Alpino Italiano's Lo Scarpone (another report says 66). He disappeared on 14 September 2024 per CAI during a solo outing on Monviso in Piedmont, Italy. Quadricottero dates his departure, when he parked his car at the Pontechianale dam, to 15 September. Searches over ten months found nothing. On 29 July 2025 the Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico Piemontese (CNSAS) flew two drones close to the north face. They collected about 2,600 high-resolution frames over 183 hectares in five hours. The frames were analyzed pixel by pixel with AI image-analysis software. Developer TEXSAR identifies it as the open-source Automated Drone Image Analysis Tool (ADIAT). The frames yielded a tiny red anomaly in the Perotti couloir: his helmet. His body was located at about 3,150 m and recovered by 31 July 2025. That date comes from TEXSAR's page (which cites Wired). It is consistent with bluewin's report of under 72 hours from the 29 July flight to the recovery. CAI gives only July 2025 and Quadricottero no date.", "category": "benefit created", "unexpected": false, "purpose": "ADIAT was built to scan drone photographs and flag color and shape anomalies for search-and-rescue teams. Locating the missing man's helmet was that intended function.", "system": "AI drone-image analysis software used by CNSAS Piemonte (identified as ADIAT by its developer, TEXSAR; CAI and CNSAS sources do not name it)", "model_version": null, "developer": "TEXSAR (Texas Search and Rescue) volunteers, per the developer's own account", "deployer": "Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico Piemontese (CNSAS Piemonte), Turin station drone team", "location": "Monviso north face, Perotti couloir (province of Cuneo), Italy", "domain": "Mountain search and rescue", "segment": "Recovery of a missing person in high-alpine terrain", "benefit_type": "Reduced Task Time", "taxonomy_note": "The time cut is the rescuers' frame review; the family's good, recovery of remains, has no type.", "registry_ids": { "oecd_aim": "2026-01-10-f4af" }, "ratings": [ { "group": "personal", "depth": 2, "reason": "Ivaldo's family obtained recovery of his body and certainty about his fate after ten months of searching. A material benefit, not life-saving, since he had died in September 2024." }, { "group": "organizational", "depth": 2, "reason": "CNSAS Piemonte ended a search that had involved ground teams, Guardia di Finanza and fire-service helicopters for ten months. Manual analysis of the drone photos would have taken weeks (CAI) to months (CNSAS, per bluewin)." } ], "ai_role": { "status": "assessed", "statement": "The AI flagged a few red pixels, the helmet, a detail CAI describes as invisible to the naked eye. Ten months of helicopters, specialist teams and advanced technology (Quadricottero) had not resolved the search. Drone pilot Saverio Isola is quoted that it was the AI software that identified the differently colored pixels. CAI/CNSAS sources do not name the software. The ADIAT attribution comes from the developer TEXSAR's own page. So the tool identity rests on a vendor-authored source." }, "evidence": [ { "kind": "press release", "citation": "Lo Scarpone, Club Alpino Italiano (2026). Sulla BBC il 'caso Ivaldo': l'Intelligenza Artificiale a supporto del Soccorso Alpino. 18 January 2026 (CAI is the parent body of CNSAS).", "title": "Sulla BBC il 'caso Ivaldo': l'Intelligenza Artificiale a supporto del Soccorso Alpino", "url": "https://www.loscarpone.cai.it/dettaglio/sulla-bbc-il-caso-ivaldo-lintelligenza-artificiale-a-supporto-del-soccorso-alpino/", "date": "2026-01-18", "written_by": "deployer", "quote": "Due droni sono stati impiegati per voli ravvicinati alle pareti del Monviso, e in 5 ore sono stati raccolti circa 2.600 fotogrammi ad alta risoluzione." }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Scarato D (2025). Droni e IA trovano il corpo del medico alpinista disperso da mesi sul Monviso. Quadricottero News, 1 August 2025 (photo credited to Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico Piemonte - CNSAS).", "title": "Droni e IA trovano il corpo del medico alpinista disperso da mesi sul Monviso", "url": "https://www.quadricottero.com/2025/08/droni-e-ia-trovano-il-corpo-del-medico.html", "date": "2025-08-01", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "Il ritrovamento, avvenuto a circa 3150 metri di quota sulla parete nord della montagna, nel canale Perotti, è stato possibile grazie a un impiego mirato di droni professionali" }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "bluewin.ch (2025). Sulle Alpi Italiane: Ecco com'è stato possibile localizzare un escursionista scomparso da un anno. 10 August 2025 (updated 12 August 2025).", "title": "Ecco com'è stato possibile localizzare un escursionista scomparso da un anno", "url": "https://www.bluewin.ch/it/attualita/escursionista-scomparso-da-un-anno-ecco-come-e-stato-localizzato-li.2817148", "date": "2025-08-10", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "Sono stati questi pixel a cambiare tutto" }, { "kind": "press release", "citation": "Texas Search and Rescue (2025). ADIAT Helps Italian SAR Team. TEXSAR website, 15 August 2025 (developer of ADIAT).", "title": "ADIAT Helps Italian SAR Team", "url": "https://www.texsar.org/2025/08/15/adiat-helps-italian-sar-team/", "date": "2025-08-15", "written_by": "makers", "quote": "It was the AI software that identified some pixels of a different color in the images taken on Tuesday." }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Simičević, V. (2026). A red pixel in the snow: How AI solved the mystery of a missing mountaineer. BBC Future.", "title": "A red pixel in the snow: How AI solved the mystery of a missing mountaineer", "url": "https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260108-how-ai-solved-the-mystery-of-a-missing-mountaineer", "date": "2026-01-09", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "Three days after the search resumed, however, the body of the missing doctor was found at one of the sites identified by the AI, lying in a gully" }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "La Stampa (2025). Trovato il corpo del medico di Albenga disperso dal 15 settembre sul Monviso. La Stampa, Cuneo.", "title": "Trovato il corpo del medico di Albenga disperso dal 15 settembre sul Monviso", "url": "https://www.lastampa.it/cuneo/2025/07/31/news/trovato_il_corpo_del_medico_di_loano_disperso_dal_15_settembre_sul_monviso-15253571/", "date": "2025-07-31", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "realizzati 2600 fotogrammi che sono stati caricati su un apposito software, in dotazione al Soccorso alpino e speleologico, che ha elaborato i dati indicando tre possibili target da verificare" }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Abbà, M. (2025). Il corpo di un escursionista disperso sul Monviso è stato recuperato dopo quasi un anno grazie a un sistema di AI. Wired Italia.", "title": "Il corpo di un escursionista disperso sul Monviso è stato recuperato dopo quasi un anno grazie a un sistema di AI. Che ha riconosciuto il caschetto tra migliaia di immagini", "url": "https://www.wired.it/article/escursionista-disperso-monviso-cadavere-drone-intelligenza-artificiale-soccorso-alpino/", "date": "2025-07-31", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "la salma del medico ligure di 64 anni Nicola Ivaldo è stata trovata nella mattinata di giovedì 31 luglio, a distanza di oltre dieci mesi dalla sua scomparsa" }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Abo Abia, M. (2025). Ritrovato il corpo di Nicola Ivaldo, disperso sul Monviso dal settembre 2024. RaiNews, TGR Piemonte.", "title": "Ritrovato il corpo di Nicola Ivaldo, disperso sul Monviso dal settembre 2024", "url": "https://www.rainews.it/tgr/piemonte/articoli/2025/07/ritrovato-il-corpo-di-nicola-ivaldo-disperso-sul-monviso-dal-settembre-2024-d14c11b3-3753-454e-98b4-d8919b1648bc.html", "date": "2025-07-31", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "Il programma, analizzando video e foto, ha individuato tre aree sensibili: zone con dettagli non naturali e incompatibili con l'ambiente circostante" }, { "kind": "press release", "citation": "Lo Scarpone (2025). Monviso, ritrovato il corpo del medico disperso da settembre 2024. Club Alpino Italiano.", "title": "Monviso, ritrovato il corpo del medico disperso da settembre 2024", "url": "https://www.loscarpone.cai.it/dettaglio/monviso-ritrovato-il-corpo-del-medico-disperso-da-settembre-2024/", "date": "2025-07-31", "written_by": "deployer", "quote": "raccolto circa 2600 fotogrammi ad alta risoluzione, poi analizzati tramite un software in dotazione al Soccorso Alpino che ha indicato tre possibili punti di interesse tramite analisi pixel-per-pixel" }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Ciprian, V. (2026). Quel punto rosso era il casco dell'alpinista disperso da mesi. L'AltraMontagna, il Dolomiti.", "title": "Quel punto rosso era il casco dell'alpinista disperso da mesi: \"Senza l'anomalia segnalata dall'intelligenza artificiale in una delle 2600 foto dal drone, probabilmente non sarebbe mai stato trovato\"", "url": "https://www.ildolomiti.it/altra-montagna/storie/2026/quel-punto-rosso-era-il-casco-dellalpinista-disperso-da-mesi-senza-lanomalia-segnalata-dallintelligenza-artificiale-in-una-delle-2600-foto-dal-drone-probabilmente-non-sarebbe-mai-stato-trovato", "date": "2026-01-13", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "il drone, penetrando nel canale Perotti, ha individuato i resti di un essere umano nel canale più a destra dei tre che solcano la parete nord" }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Rullo, F. (2025). Monviso, ritrovato dopo un anno e solo grazie ai droni il corpo di Nicola Ivaldo, medico savonese scomparso in montagna. Corriere della Sera, Torino.", "title": "Monviso, ritrovato dopo un anno e solo grazie ai droni il corpo di Nicola Ivaldo, medico savonese scomparso in montagna", "url": "https://torino.corriere.it/notizie/piemonte/25_luglio_31/monviso-ritrovato-dopo-un-anno-e-solo-grazie-ai-droni-il-corpo-di-nicola-ivaldo-medico-savonese-scomparso-in-montagna-c943f224-5e04-4320-856b-a3d4533caxlk.shtml", "date": "2025-07-31", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "ritrovati grazie all'uso di droni e a un apposito software in dotazione al soccorso alpino: erano in un canale a 3150 metri di quota" }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Annapurna, K. (2025). AI Solves the Mystery of Missing Italian Climber. ExplorersWeb.", "title": "AI Solves the Mystery of Missing Italian Climber", "url": "https://explorersweb.com/ai-solves-the-mystery-of-missing-italian-climber/", "date": "2025-08-07", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "an AI software analyzed these many images in a single afternoon, singling out a cluster of red pixels that turned out to be Ivaldo's helmet" }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Malfatti, M. (2025). Anche l'intelligenza artificiale al servizio del Soccorso Alpino. Montagna.TV.", "title": "Anche l'intelligenza artificiale al servizio del Soccorso Alpino", "url": "https://www.montagna.tv/262960/anche-lintelligenza-artificiale-al-servizio-del-soccorso-alpino/", "date": "2025-10-06", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "l'analisi automatica e dettagliata di migliaia di fotogrammi ha permesso di isolare potenziali target in un'area decisamente vasta ed impervia" }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Corriere della Sera Torino (2024). Disperso sul Monviso da sabato Nicola Ivaldo, 64enne chirurgo ortopedico di Loano. Corriere.it.", "title": "Disperso sul Monviso da sabato Nicola Ivaldo, 64enne chirurgo ortopedico di Loano. Lavorava ad Acqui Terme", "url": "https://torino.corriere.it/notizie/piemonte/24_settembre_17/disperso-sul-monviso-da-sabato-ha-parcheggiato-l-auto-alla-diga-di-pontechianale-poi-nessuna-traccia-89019eb1-5c94-4928-a627-187960555xlk.shtml", "date": "2024-09-17", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "presumibilmente è partito a piedi nella giornata di sabato dal parcheggio della diga di Pontechianale, nel cuneese, dove è ancora presente la sua auto" }, { "kind": "other", "citation": "OECD.AI (2026). AI-Assisted Drone Search Locates Missing Mountaineer in Italian Alps. OECD AI Incidents and Hazards Monitor.", "title": "AI-Assisted Drone Search Locates Missing Mountaineer in Italian Alps", "url": "https://oecd.ai/en/incidents/2026-01-10-f4af", "date": "2026-01-10", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "AI software analyzing drone images identified the body of missing Italian mountaineer Nicola Ivaldo in the Piedmont Alps" } ], "replication": { "produced_by": [ "Close-range high-resolution drone photography of steep faces (about 2,600 frames over 183 hectares)", "A target object (red helmet) with strong color contrast against rock and ice", "Search area narrowed by mobile-phone cell data to the Monviso and Visolotto faces" ], "must_hold": [ "Weather and terrain allow drones to fly close to the walls", "The subject or equipment remains visible and not buried by snow", "Rescuers verify AI flags, which CNSAS notes can also fire on plastic or unusual rock color" ], "echoes": [] }, "paired_incident": null, "headline": "ADIAT spots a red helmet and locates Nicola Ivaldo on Monviso", "metric": "located at about 3,150 m and recovered by 31 July 2025", "comparator": { "against": "conventional ground and air searches over the preceding months", "before": "I metodi di ricerca convenzionali sono rimasti inconcludenti per mesi", "after": "meno di 72 ore dalla prima missione del drone al recupero del corpo", "basis": "measured", "quote": "I metodi di ricerca convenzionali sono rimasti inconcludenti per mesi, mentre sono passate meno di 72 ore dalla prima missione del drone al recupero del corpo.", "url": "https://www.bluewin.ch/it/attualita/escursionista-scomparso-da-un-anno-ecco-come-e-stato-localizzato-li.2817148" }, "later": { "status": "persisted", "date": "2026-01-18", "note": "By January 2026 the CNSAS Piemonte drone lead was working with Politecnico di Torino's geomatics team on a successor tool that adds precise georeferenced coordinates to the color-anomaly detection.", "quote": "Giordan, che è anche soccorritore, sta collaborando con il team di geomatica del Politecnico di Torino per sviluppare un software capace non solo di individuare anomalie cromatiche, ma di fornire coordinate georeferenziate di estrema precisione.", "url": "https://www.loscarpone.cai.it/dettaglio/sulla-bbc-il-caso-ivaldo-lintelligenza-artificiale-a-supporto-del-soccorso-alpino/" }, "value": null, "developer_country": "United States", "deployer_country": "Italy", "unrated_because": null, "brief_notes": null, "brief": null, "revisions": [ { "date": "2026-10-20", "change": "Record drafted from the cited sources.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "change": "Corrected the bluewin.ch title to the page's headline, hedged the title's ADIAT attribution to its vendor source, placed the find on the Monviso north face rather than at Pontechianale (only his starting point), removed the unsupported claim that human reviewers had missed the helmet, and noted that the sources differ on the manual-review time (weeks per CAI, months per CNSAS via bluewin), the disappearance date (14 or 15 September 2024) and the source of the 31 July 2025 recovery date.", "source": "https://www.loscarpone.cai.it/dettaglio/sulla-bbc-il-caso-ivaldo-lintelligenza-artificiale-a-supporto-del-soccorso-alpino/", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "change": "Merged with a second write-up of the same event (11 sources and the registry id carried over); the duplicate was removed.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Title reworded to state the event without naming who claims it.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Added what the benefit is measured against, what happened since from the cited sources.", "source": "https://www.bluewin.ch/it/attualita/escursionista-scomparso-da-un-anno-ecco-come-e-stato-localizzato-li.2817148; https://www.loscarpone.cai.it/dettaglio/sulla-bbc-il-caso-ivaldo-lintelligenza-artificiale-a-supporto-del-soccorso-alpino/", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Benefit type set to Reduced Task Time under Trustible's full taxonomy of 23 types; it was Improved Organizational Efficiency among the six first used.", "source": "https://trustible.ai/post/a-framework-for-measuring-the-benefits-of-ai/", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Country of the developer and the deployer added from the organization's own site or a registry.", "source": "https://texsar.org/; https://news.cnsas.it/piemonte/", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Prose pass: a rating reason, account, purpose, the system's part rewritten in shorter sentences with abbreviations expanded; facts, figures and quotations unchanged.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" } ], "confidence": "reported", "shade": "medium", "claim_status": "Independently reported", "claim_basis": "Sources: 11 independent news reports, one other independent source, the makers' press release and two press releases from the deployer. 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