Stephen Wood, Vice President, DigitalGlobe’s Analysis Center Even now, after we’ve imaged the entire earth’s surface many times over, I continue to be amazed at the unique, critical perspective satellite imagery offers to the pressing events of our time. In the last decade we’ve been involved in responding to many disasters. There has been nothing [...]
Stephen Wood, Vice President, DigitalGlobe’s Analysis Center Over the last few days, DigitalGlobe has worked with our partners at the Satellite Sentinel Project to release two urgent, new reports on the recent violence in the contested Abyei region of Sudan. Before the weekend, our satellite images showed evidence of increased military buildup in the region [...]
WASHINGTON — The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has confirmed escalating violence in Sudan’s Abyei region, including the intentional burning of the villages of Maker Abior and Todach. The SSP report, “Flashpoint: Abyei,” has also documented a significant increase in military activity by apparent Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) operational in South Kordofan state, as well as [...]