Earth Observation
Data collection through satellite imagery, among other data spatial data, offer a more comprehensive picture of environmental trends as they relate to specific locations.
There are 55 resources related to Earth Observation.
Agriculture as a Funding Source of ISIS: A GIS and Remote Sensing Analysis
2016
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Food Policy
Hadi H. Jaafar and Eckart Woertz
Agriculture is an important source of income for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS), which currently rules over large parts of the breadbaskets…
Digital Technologies for Environmental Peacebuilding: Horizon Scanning of Opportunities & Risks
2024
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UNEP and EnPAx
Albert Martinez Sequero, Asim Zia, Carl Bruch, David Jensen, and Silja Halle, with Theresa Dearden, Benjamin Dills, Mirza Sadaqat Huda, Richard A. Matthew, Samantha Murphy, Shanna McClain, Albert Martinez Sequero, Panagiotis Oikonomou, Alejandro Martín
This report specifically delves into how digital technologies can be harnessed to manage environmental and natural resource risks that contribute to insecurity and social conflict,…
Geostatistical Assessment of the Impact of World War I on the Spatial Occurrence of Soil Heavy Metals
2011
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Europe PMC
Eef Meerschman, Liesbet Cockx, Mohammad Monirul Islam, Fun Meeuws, and Marc Van Meirvenne
Previous research showed a regional Cu enrichment of 6 mg kg(-1) in the top soil of the Ypres war zone (Belgium), caused by corrosion of…
Spatial and Political Factors in Forest Resource Conflicts: The Eastern Mau Forest Case 1992–2014
2019
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Society and Natural Resources
R. Kweyu, K. Kiemo, T. Thenya, J. Emborg, and C. Gamborg
This paper examines conflicts and forest resource politics in Eastern Mau, which is part of the Mau forest complex in Kenya. Conflict hotspots are mapped…
Geocollaboration in Environmental Inspection Activities in the Environmental Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State – Brazil
2020
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Boletim do Observatório Ambiental Alberto Ribeiro Lamego
Eduardo Frederico Cabral de Oliveira, José Augusto Silva, José Francisco Oliveira Júnior, and Jader Lugon Junior
The cost of geotechnologies are becoming more accessible. The capacity to generate real-time maps with ubiquitous access and applications based on geocollaborative platforms developed for…
Mapping and Analysing Cultural Ecosystem Services in Conflict Areas
2020
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Ecological Indicators
Frederico Santarém, Jarkko Saarinen, and José Carlos Brito
Human-mediated global environmental change threatens ecosystem services worldwide. Detailed cultural ecosystem services mapping is crucial to counteract ecosystem degradation, but such mapping exercises have been…
Mapping and Analysing Cultural Ecosystem Services in Conflict Areas
2020
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Ecological Indicators
Frederico Santarém, Jarkko Saarinen, and José Carlos Brito
Human-mediated global environmental change threatens ecosystem services worldwide. Detailed cultural ecosystem services mapping is crucial to counteract ecosystem degradation, but such mapping exercises have been…
Tracing Toxic Legacies: GIS and the Dispersed Violence of Agent Orange
2019
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Journal of War and Cultural Studies
Daniel Grinberg
This article will discuss the U.S. military’s spraying of toxic defoliants over Vietnam from 1961 to 1971. It will first frame these attacks’ diffuse material…
Armed Conflict and Child Mortality in Africa: A Geospatial Analysis
2018
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The Lancet
Zachary Wagner, Sam Heft-Neal, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Robert E. Black, Marshall Burke, and Eran Bendavid
A substantial portion of child deaths in Africa take place in countries with recent history of armed conflict and political instability. However, the extent to…
Does Artisanal Mining Increase the Risk of Sexual Violence? Micro-Level Evidence from Eastern Congo
2016
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Quality in Primary Care
Siri Aas Rustad, Gudrun Østby, and Ragnhild Nordås Quality in Primary Care 1-Jan-16
DR Congo’s natural resource abundance has featured in policy debates and amongst advocacy groups as the prime example of ‘conflict minerals’ driving conflict-related sexual violence.…
Afghanistan Environmental Data Centre
2016
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GISC
Sara Hodges
The Afghanistan Environmental Data Centre (AEDC), a co-operative venture between UNEP and the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA), funded by UK Department for International Development…
Ukraine Conflict Environmental Briefing: Nature
2024
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Conflict and Environment Observatory and Zoï Environment Network
The scale and intensity of the conflict in Ukraine has resulted in widespread and locally severe damage to some of its most ecologically important areas,…
Toward the Remote Monitoring of Armed Conflicts
2023
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PNAS Nexus
Valerie Sticher, Jan D. Wegner, and Birke Pfeifle
The war in Ukraine has pushed the role of satellite imagery in armed conflicts into the spotlight. For a long time, satellite images were primarily…
Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection and Prediction in the Kathmandu District of Nepal Using Remote Sensing and GIS
2020
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Sustainability Journal
Sonam W. Wang, Belay M. Gebru, Munkhnasan Lamchin, Rijan B. Kayastha, and Woo-Kyun Lee
Understanding land use and land cover changes has become a necessity in managing and monitoring natural resources and development especially urban planning. Remote sensing and…
The Impact of Conflict-Driven Cropland Abandonment on Food Insecurity in South Sudan Revealed Using Satellite Remote Sensing
2021
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Nature Food
Victor Mackenhauer Olsen, Rasmus Fensholt, Pontus Olofsson, Rogerio Bonifacio, Van Butsic, Daniel Druce, Deepak Ray, and Alexander V. Prishchepov
Armed conflicts often hinder food security through cropland abandonment and restrict the collection of on-the-ground information required for targeted relief distribution. Satellite remote sensing provides…
Satellite Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Armed-Conflict in Rakhine, Myanmar
2021
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Science of The Total Environment
Thiri Aung
The impacts of armed conflict on the environment are extremely complex and difficult to investigate, given the impossibility of accessing the affected area and reliable…
Assembling Drones, Activists and Oil Palms: Implications of a Multi-stakeholder Land Platform for State Formation in Myanmar
2020
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European Journal of Development Research
Joan Bastide, Lara Lundsgaard-Hansen, and Stefan Bächtold
Amid Myanmar’s political transition and despite its new government’s discourse of inclusion and dialogue, land conflicts have increased across the country’s ethnic-minority areas. We argue…
A Rapid Environmental Risk Assessment of the Kakhovka Dam Breach during the Ukraine Conflict
2024
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Nature Ecology & Evolution
Bryan M. Spears, Quillon Harpham, Emma Brown, Catherine L. Barnett, Louise Barwell, Marta Roca Collell, Mark Davison, Harry Dixon, J. Alex Elliott, Angus Garbutt, Caroline Hazlewood, Barabara Hofmann, James Lanyon, Stephen Lofts, Colin MacKechnie, Sergiy
Assessing habitat and biodiversity loss in active conflict zones is a major challenge1. Independent scientific evidence on wartime impacts is essential to inform the environmental…
Afghanistan Drought Early Warning Decision Support (AF-DEWS) Tool
2023
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International Water Management Institute
Giriraj Amarnath, Surajit Ghosh, and Niranga Alahacoon
This report summarizes the development of the Afghanistan Drought Early Warning Decision Support (AF-DEWS) Tool, a cloud-based online platform with near real-time information on drought…
Using Machine Learning and Remote Sensing to Track Land Use/Land Cover Changes Due to Armed Conflict
2023
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Science of The Total Environment
Saeed Mhanna, Landon J.S. Halloran, François Zwahlen, Ahmed Haj Asaad, and Philip Brunner
Armed conflicts have detrimental impacts on the environment, including land systems. The prevailing understanding of the relation between Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) and armed conflict…
War and Deforestation: Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning to Identify the War-Induced Deforestation in Syria 2010–2019
2023
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Land
Angham Daiyoub, Pere Gelabert, Sandra Saura-Mas, and Cristina Vega-Garcia
Armed conflicts and other types of violence are key drivers of human-induced landscape change. Since March 2011, Syria has been embroiled in a prolonged and…
Toxic Floods? Climate, Natural Hazards and Risks to South Sudan’s Oil Infrastructure
2023
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PAX
Wim Zwijnenburg, Roberto Jaramillo Vasquez, and Jannis Hoch
The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil fields in South Sudan has brought the country both wealth and woes. Armed conflicts and civil wars fought over…
Indexing Climatic and Environmental Exposure of Refugee Camps with a Case Study in East Africa
2023
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Nature Scientific Reports
Michael Owen, Andrew Kruczkiewicz, and Jamon Van Den Hoek
This study presents a novel approach to systematically measure climatic and environmental exposure in refugee camps using remote sensing and geospatial data. Using a case…
War, Waste and Polluted Pastures
2021
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PAX
Wim Zwijnenburg, Noor Nahas, and Roberto J. Vasquez
The environment in north-east Syria has faced serious challenges since the outbreak of the peaceful revolution ten years ago. The ensuing violence by the Syrian…
GIS in Colombian Post-Conflict Land Use Planning
2021
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Procedia Environmental Science, Engineering and Management
Hernán Granda-Rodriguez, Jenny Patricia-Vanegas, Daniel Robledo-Buitrago, John Jairo Castañeda, Edier Fernando Ávila-Vélez, and Miguel A. De Luque-Villa
This research collected and interpreted geographic and temporal data on changes in land use coverage in order to improve sustainable development and land use planning in…
Mapping Untreated and Semi-Treated Wastewater Effluent off the Coast of Gaza with Sentinel-1 Time Series Data
2020
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Oregon State University
Anna D. Ballasiotes
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most contested and complicated conflicts in the world. As one of the occupied Palestinian Territories recognized by the…
Land Use and Land Cover Changes along the China-Myanmar Oil and Gas Pipelines – Monitoring Infrastructure Development in Remote Conflict-Prone Regions
2020
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PLoS ONE
Thiri S. Aung, Thomas B. Fischer, and John Buchanan
Energy infrastructures can have negative impacts on the environment. In remote and / or sparsely populated as well as in conflict-prone regions, these can be…
Needs Before Tools: Using Technology in Environmental Conflict Resolution
2014
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Conflict Resolution Quarterly
Amanda E. Cravens
Environmental conflict resolution practitioners have become increasingly interested in using information technology to work collaboratively across sectors. Discussions to date, however, have focused on specific…
Armed Conflict, Militarization and Ecological Footprint: Empirical Evidence from South Asia
2021
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Journal of Cleaner Production
Unbreen Qayyum, Sohail Anjum, and Samina Sabirc
Environmental degradation as a consequence of military activities largely remains a neglected subject, especially in South Asia. To fill this gap, we have investigated the…
Satellite Imagery in Conflict-Affected Areas: How Technology Can Support WFP Emergency Response
2020
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World Food Programme
Laure Boudinand and Amadou Ibrahim
The past decade has witnessed a boom in the availability of satellite data whether from established space agencies or from the private sector. Unique in…