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Beirut Destruction Through Remote Sensing
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on Friday August 04, @01:42PM
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Very Spatial shortly discuss a New York Times aerial photography of Beirut's destruction from bombings. From the blog: "The area of interest is the area around the Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut. The leftmost tab shows that area as it looked on July 12th, 2006. The middle button shows the aftereffects of 19 days of bombing. The damaged areas are utterly clear."
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