Eyes in the Sky (Chapter in "Talking Tactics: Environmental Protection and Armed Conflicts")
Publisher: environmental SCIENTIST
Author(s): Eoghan Darbyshire
Date: 2020
Topics: Assessment, Data and Technologies, Governance, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programming
Countries: Colombia, Georgia
Regions of active conflict are typically data poor, access for environmental measurements is limited and many contemporary conflicts show no sign of conclusion. Earth observation (EO) via satellite remote sensing can fill these data gaps and provide a wealth of information ranging from short-term environmental risks to long-term changes. All this information can help target locations for humanitarian response, remediation or in-situ data collection via citizen science or post-conflict environmental assessments. Observations can help form the basis of environmental peacebuilding or could even help hold those responsible for environmental crimes to account.