The City is the Medium and Satellite Imagery Are a Prism

Hoek, Jamon Van Den

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“…Humanitarian monitoring and scientific research tend to use whatever VHR data are available, while a lack of coordination often results in parallel efforts, squandering time and computing resources. Moreover, despite increasing attention to the environmental consequences of conflict, VHR‐driven war monitoring focuses on large population centers and urban infrastructure (Van Den Hoek, 2021), omitting farms, forests, and other rural habitats despite their importance for livelihoods, food security, and biodiversity during and after a war (e.g., Daskin & Pringle, 2018). Orienting scientific research and humanitarian monitoring around shared, standardized, analysis‐ready VHR mosaics could harmonize disparate satellite‐based monitoring of dynamic conflict zones, catalyze collaboration, and foster novel interdisciplinary insights.…”

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Improving Satellite Monitoring of Armed Conflicts

2022

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Very‐high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery is increasingly used to visualize the effects of armed conflicts in near‐real time. Yet these data, typically commercial, are generally released selectively or for a fee, impeding scientific and humanitarian applications. Such images also tend to focus on cities or infrastructure, obscuring the effects of war in rural or sparsely populated areas such as forests. To leverage VHR imagery for improved and more holistic conflict monitoring, we call for (a) archiving VHR images for scientific and humanitarian use; (b) producing analysis‐ready, conflict‐wide VHR mosaics to harmonize monitoring; and (c) forming a sustainably funded public VHR satellite program. International coordination on such a satellite could also support the transformation of VHR Earth observation (EO) data into a public good. Taking these three steps promises to revolutionize conflict monitoring, much in the way that opening access to lower‐resolution EO data has stimulated new discoveries about the planet's ecosystems and human impacts. Broadening and standardizing access to and analysis of archived VHR imagery may improve understandings of war, empower and refine responses, and potentially, mitigate future conflicts.

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Improving Satellite Monitoring of Armed Conflicts

2022

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No peace for the forest: Rapid, widespread land changes in the Andes-Amazon region following the Colombian civil war

Murillo-Sandoval

Gjerdseth

Ayram

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Global Environmental Change

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Revisioning and Rebuilding Britain’s War-Damaged Cities

Larkham

Adams

2022

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This article presents an overview of Second World War bomb damage to British towns and cities and a systematic evaluation of the relationship between damage, revisioning, replanning, and actual reconstruction in a sample of cities—Bath, Birmingham, and Hull. Two were severely affected by aerial bombing as port/industrial targets, and the third for propaganda purposes as a historical city. Two had extensive plans produced by eminent consultants (both involving Patrick Abercrombie) but the city managers of the third did not support “big plans.” Birmingham, without a specific plan, rebuilt extensively and relatively quickly. Hull’s plan was disliked locally and virtually vanished. Bath was repaired rather than rebuilt. These contrasting experiences have shaped the contemporary city via subsequent generations of replanning (not all of which was implemented) and, in Birmingham’s case, the demolition of major reconstruction investments after relatively short lifespans. The article demonstrates the difficulty of conceptualising a generic approach to post-catastrophe reconstruction and the problems of such large-scale change over a short period for the longer-term effective functioning of the city.

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The City is the Medium and Satellite Imagery Are a Prism

Cited by 3 publications

References 53 publications

Improving Satellite Monitoring of Armed Conflicts

Improving Satellite Monitoring of Armed Conflicts

No peace for the forest: Rapid, widespread land changes in the Andes-Amazon region following the Colombian civil war

Revisioning and Rebuilding Britain’s War-Damaged Cities

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