As an "IT Professional" you should know better ! Exactly how long do you think its going to take someone (or rather, as you well know, a number of someones... known as developers !) to (a) come up with a viable algorithm (b) code it (c) test and debug it ........ seriously man ! Its a non-starter of a hairbrained idea to think someone would expend so much resource !
The best you can hope for in that area is that, seeing as they are in the business of analysing satellite images for people trying to hide stuff, the intelligence agencies already have such an algorithm already in-use and that their masters may permit them to use it for this purpose to see what they can come up with (obviously findings would never be publicly released for obvious reasons, but would be passed in some obfuscated form to the nations taking part in the SAR). But I suspect satellite resources in that part of the world may be busy elsewhere.
As for "crowdsourcing" don't make me laugh. Tomnod is no more than marketing
PR excercise for its owners. Have you seen the sort of nonsense the "crowdsourcing" community have been highlighting on the images ? People with no SAR and no satellite imagery analysis are not going to come up with anything of remote use.
I'm not an expert in image processing, but when processing these images I would expect that if you find debris you would see a lot of white-ish colors. So already a "simple" color histogram could already indicate anomalies. The only problem then remains that all clouds would also appear as false positives. But maybe these can also be filtered out somehow ? And even if this is not possible you would already eliminate a lot of area to search over. I'm sure there are a lot of algorithms and filters already available to do the job (maybe with some modification).
Maybe tomnod is indeed a
PR stunt, that's why I said it could be checked by specialists.