{"id":3180,"date":"2012-11-09T11:25:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T15:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2012-11-09T11:25:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T15:25:31","slug":"rb209-crisis-spotting-drone-humanitarianism-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2012\/11\/09\/rb209-crisis-spotting-drone-humanitarianism-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"RB209: Crisis Spotting (Drone Humanitarianism II)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What if you could witness a crime taking place from space, and even step in to prevent it?<\/p>\n

A group of researchers at Harvard’s Humanitarian Initiative are trying to do exactly that.<\/p>\n

As the nation of Sudan faced a complex crisis \u2014 a secession of the southern region that threatened to boil over into a civil war in 2011 \u2014 Nathaniel Raymond and his team at The Signal Program<\/a> were carefully monitoring the conflict.<\/p>\n

Their methods were uncommon. Using donated satellite imagery<\/a> \u2014 the kind normally used to observe environmental conditions or create maps \u2014 the team tracked the movements of troops, military vehicles, and resources in near real-time, and used that information to alert humanitarian groups on the ground.<\/p>\n

But it’s a process fraught with challenges, from imperfect imagery (imagine a cloud passing by just as you’re trying to spot tank movements), to the ethical questions that come with intervening in a conflict remotely.<\/p>\n

So how does a group of civilians at Harvard go about monitoring an unfolding humanitarian disaster from space?<\/p>\n

Our producer Frances Harlow<\/a> spent a day with the team at the Signal Program to find out how they work.<\/p>\n

(Click to find other episodes in our Drone Humanitarianism series!<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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This week’s episode produced by Frances Harlow<\/a>, with Daniel Dennis Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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