| Images of war: using satellite images for human rights monitoring in Turkish Kurdistan. | |
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PMID: 18958914 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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In areas of war and armed conflict it is difficult to get trustworthy and coherent information. Civil society and human rights groups often face problems of dealing with fragmented witness reports, disinformation of war propaganda, and difficult direct access to these areas. Turkish Kurdistan was used as a case study of armed conflict to evaluate the potential use of satellite images for verification of witness reports collected by human rights groups. The Turkish army was reported to be burning forests, fields and villages as a strategy in the conflict against guerrilla uprising. This paper concludes that satellite images are useful to validate witness reports of forest fires. Even though the use of this technology for human rights groups will depend on some feasibility factors such as prices, access and expertise, the images proved to be key for analysis of spatial aspects of conflict and valuable for reconstructing a more trustworthy picture. |
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Authors:
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Hugo de Vos; Joost Jongerden; Jacob van Etten |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Disasters Volume: 32 ISSN: 0361-3666 ISO Abbreviation: Disasters Publication Date: 2008 Sep |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2008-10-29 Completed Date: 2008-12-09 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 7702072 Medline TA: Disasters Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 449-66 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Voswiz, AT Wageningen, The Netherlands. voswiz@versatel.nl |
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Data Collection Fires Human Rights* Humans Photography Spacecraft* Trees Turkey War* |
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