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Ollie Ballinger
Coverage of Ollie Ballinger in the Nexus archive.
- When Satellite Imagery Goes Dark: New Tool Shows Damage in Iran and the Gulf
Bellingcat has launched an updated open-source tool called the Iran Conflict Damage Proxy Map to estimate building damage in Iran and the Gulf region using satellite imagery. The tool employs Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from the Sentinel-1 satellite and a damage detection algorithm to identify structural destruction when commercial satellite imagery access is restricted.