Satellites in the Quest for Peace

This was a very interesting article. We urge all of PeaceJammers to check it out!

Amnesty International and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) are collaborating on Eyes on Darfur (eyesondarfur.org), a Web site that shows before and after satellite images of areas the Washington-based human rights organization believes are, or could be at risk of, being under siege.

The purpose of this project is for the AAAS to go through archived images of the region and compare them to more recent images to produce clear examples of change in the landscape due to conflicts occurring there. AAAS searches areas based on reports to Amnesty International from the region.

AAAS also is monitoring other areas using satellite data. The organization monitors reports of ethnic cleansing in Burma and analyzed images after reports of intentional destruction of opposition party homes in Zimbabwe. In October, AAAS released results of its analysis of destruction caused in the August clash between Russian and Georgian troops in South Ossetia by satellite images taken before Aug. 10 and those taken again Aug. 19.

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