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Amnesty International's "Eyes on Darfur" and New After War Beirut Imagery
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Ogle Earth discuss the launch by Amnesty International of their Eyes on Darfur project, which uses satellite imagery as evidence. Here's the Eyes on Darfur website. OE shares this with us: "Every initiative on Darfur is a worthy initiative. I would love, however, for this weeks-old data from Darfur to be made available in an open, georeferenced formats, in time series and on a much wider scale, so that GIS volunteers really can monitor villages for change. I'd gladly "adopt" one of the 1,600 villages and monitor it, given the data. I also think Flash is not the best visualization tool for geospatial data [...]" OE also informs us Beirut imagery has been updated to reflect the situation after the 2006 Lebanon War.
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Amnesty International's "Eyes on Darfur" and New After War Beirut Imagery
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