Estimating Cities Destruction

Mosul, Iraq
Eastern Ghouta, Syria
Sana'a & Hodeida, Yemen

Client Brief

In conflict zones, estimating precisely the level of destruction is crucial to know where to focus on for humanitarian missions and reconstruction issues

Solution

Process high-resolution satellite imagery and Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data
Spot incoherencies between before/after conflict imagery/data to estimate destructions

Results

The team successfully detected destructions in Mosul, Raqqa, Hodeida and Sana'a coherent with field expertise and secondary sources
Our work led to several publications (see here and here)