Approximately one million refugees of the Rohingya minority population in Myanmar
crossed the border to Bangladesh on 25 August 2017, seeking shelter from systematic …

Humanitarian action has rapidly adopted Earth observation (EO) and geospatial
technologies shaping them according to their needs. Protracted crises and large-scale …

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 used for military and intelligence …

This study investigates the elevation changes for the island of Bhasan Char, located in the
Bay of Bengal, which was selected for the relocation of around 100,000 refugees of the …

This work deals with radar satellite imagery and its potential to assist of humanitarian
operations. As the number of displaced people annually increases, both hosting countries …

Why, when, and where do participants in civil wars engage in intentional cultural destruction
(ICD)? Focusing on the case of ISIS in Syria, our article examines how ideological and …

While we still lack a community-agreed definition of 'big Earth data', there is clear evidence
that the data's unprecedented volume, variety and velocity, as well as veracity, require …

With the rapid development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology, change
detection methods based on UAV images have been extensively studied. However, the …

While in high-risk armed conflict settings it can be difficult to gather information on the
ground, satellites offer a non-intrusive form of overviewing the situation. When it comes to …

This practical paper gives an overview about the widely unused potential of radar satellite
imagery to assist humanitarian action. It briefly introduces the basic differences between …