This live map started 8 years ago and has been updating all the time since, showing all daily incidents that never stopped happening. It also followed ISIS wars in Iraq and Syria and so on.
This makes me wounder how far we are from having real time high resolution satellite coverage of events like this. Some of the events reported in liveuamap are already based on high res sat images to identity military camps and troop movement.
If anyone is interested, seems like SentinelHub offers a tool called EO Browser that is able to explore multiple high resolution sat image for free, those images seem to be pretty update.
Most of SentinelHub's open access data comes from Sentinel-1 (radar) and 2 (optical) satellites constellations, which offer a 6-days or shorter revisit time over nearly any point on Earth (for S-1, this is currently longer, as one of the two S-1 sats making up the constellation is out of order).
This is not quite high resolution data however - in the 10 to 20 meters per pixel range, i.e. medium resolution. Sentinels are not reconnaissance satellites, but are rather tasked for mapping and collecting large amounts of data globally, for which the main use cases do not necessarily need high resolution imagery (agricultural monitoring, deforestation, natural catastrophes...).
Reconnaissance satellites have much finer ground resolution (sub-meter per pixel, down to a couple dozen centimeters... from what is publicly available), and some constellations feature daily revisit cycles.
We already do, with companies like Planet Labs, etc the question is if the parties involved are allowed to publish it. I guarantee the sat imaging folks get the equivalent of National Security Letters whenever they come across anything “interesting”.
That's where imaging radar (SAR most specifically) comes in handy, as it is able to image through clouds in most circumstances. Image intepretation isn't as straight forward as with optical imaging though.
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How do I know that this money is going to where they say it is going? I'm happy to support it at the top level, I just want to make sure I'm not accidentally funnelling money into Russia's disinformation campaign.
For those unaware of Russian propaganda campaigns, the comment above is basically the same as the "I saw Confederate flags at the trucker protest" strategy of dismissing the legitimate interests of millions of normal people.
I'm not sure if there's a name for this strategy (beyond "whataboutism"), but it's annoyingly effective and can be used by both the left and the right. An example of the latter would be claiming that all racial justice protesters (and Democrats generally) are Antifa rioters and looters.
It seems to work by exploiting the "ultimate attribution error" bias in human psychology.
So, yes, political, but on the other hand a cool piece of tech?
I've not seen this kind of visualization of a developing situation publicly available before, and a cursory glance shows that the data sources are at least one level beyond 'naked propaganda'...
Live maps like this of ethnic conflicts in Kenya made a huge difference with the civil unrest there. This conflict is very different, but being able to present evidence of what is happening could have a great influence not just on the conflict itself but all that comes afterward.
But, the immediate reflex on HN is to downvote such tools into oblivion. When I 'vouched' for this submission, it was flagged, I assume for immediate deletion.
It's quite interesting that 'free speech' advocates are so, eh, limited in what they actually consider to be such...
My big picture opinion on the Ukraine Conflict: Dictators Putin and Jinping are ramping up invasions of Ukraine and Taiwan to capture new territory as free nations have done nothing to support their previous subjugation of Crimea and Hong Kong. Adolf Hitler in the 1930's used a similar strategy of gradually conquering more and more territory while free nations twiddled their thumbs. Hopefully, a leader like Winston Churchill will rise again to fight for freedom.
Does anyone know which areas of Ukraine have the large proven reserves of Lithium, the element needed for EV battery production? I know that the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts have or are near to large coal deposits.
Readit News
NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/world/europe/ukrain...
Centre For Information Resilience: https://maphub.net/Cen4infoRes/russian-ukraine-monitor
from: https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-russian-inv...
This one seems much better than the original link. Probably the best "live" map I've seen so far.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/02/27/follow-the-russia...
This is not quite high resolution data however - in the 10 to 20 meters per pixel range, i.e. medium resolution. Sentinels are not reconnaissance satellites, but are rather tasked for mapping and collecting large amounts of data globally, for which the main use cases do not necessarily need high resolution imagery (agricultural monitoring, deforestation, natural catastrophes...).
Reconnaissance satellites have much finer ground resolution (sub-meter per pixel, down to a couple dozen centimeters... from what is publicly available), and some constellations feature daily revisit cycles.
(Ukrainian IT community already raised around $100k in a last few days)
I'm not sure if there's a name for this strategy (beyond "whataboutism"), but it's annoyingly effective and can be used by both the left and the right. An example of the latter would be claiming that all racial justice protesters (and Democrats generally) are Antifa rioters and looters.
It seems to work by exploiting the "ultimate attribution error" bias in human psychology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_attribution_error
https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/22-february-22222buffalo-fd-wo...
I've not seen this kind of visualization of a developing situation publicly available before, and a cursory glance shows that the data sources are at least one level beyond 'naked propaganda'...
Bookmarked!
But, the immediate reflex on HN is to downvote such tools into oblivion. When I 'vouched' for this submission, it was flagged, I assume for immediate deletion.
It's quite interesting that 'free speech' advocates are so, eh, limited in what they actually consider to be such...