Here's the video.
If you only want the TL;DR and checklist, skip to 11:04 in YouTube video 🤓 🛰️
@bendobrown.bsky.socialBenjamin Strick
@bendobrown.bsky.social
Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars - Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT - Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social - Prev CIR, BBC, Bellingcat.
@bendobrown.bsky.social@bendobrown.bsky.socialSatellite maps can hide a lot. A fake forest covers a military base in Russia, another covers a government area in South Korea. So I published a video on the free tools you can use to check edits and trust satellite imagery. Link below 👇
@bendobrown.bsky.socialHere's the link to the OSINT Field Notes newsletter, where these are discussed in detail, including the analysis involved, techniques on using them and more on using technology during disasters.
@bendobrown.bsky.social10. Not necessarily a tool, but more a story from Reddit 'whereisthis', where someone posted an image of a tour guide from Nepal, trying to help their friend identify their last known whereabouts. The community identified the location shortly after. www.reddit.com/r/whereisthi...
@bendobrown.bsky.social9. Google Fact Check Explorer to see indexed fact-checks by country, theme or event toolbox.google.com/factcheck/ex...
@bendobrown.bsky.social8. Copernicus Emergency Management Service for rapid flood extent and damage assessment mapping. mapping.emergency.copernicus.eu/activations/...
@bendobrown.bsky.social7. HOT uMap for tasked extents and focus area boundary umap.hotosm.org/en/map/nepal...
@bendobrown.bsky.social6. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Tasking Manager and OSM page for coordinated mapping plus access to tasked imagery. wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organis...
@bendobrown.bsky.social5. Google Lens. Never underestimate it. It can give context in seconds.
@bendobrown.bsky.social4. Disaster Imagery Viewer (cgiovando) with commercial imagery and drone data as a multi-provider viewer, false colour and NDWI on Planet Pelican. cgiovando.github.io/disaster-ima...
@bendobrown.bsky.social3. Radiant Earth's STAC Browser to aggregate available imagery. browser.moregeo.it/external/van...
@bendobrown.bsky.social2. Developmentseed STAC map for open data imagery developmentseed.org/stac-map/?hr...
@bendobrown.bsky.social1. Vantor open data program vantor.com/company/open...
@bendobrown.bsky.socialI've just published this month's edition of OSINT Field Notes. The focus is on how tech supports disaster situations, especially after the horrible Nepal floods. Here's 10 interesting links worth checking out if you're interested in open source analysis during disasters 👇
@bendobrown.bsky.social12. How can you view free clear historical satellite imagery for anywhere in the world?