UNOSAT Use of Satellite Imagery and Geospatial Information to support human rights, security, and humanitarian operations 18 October 2016
What is UNITAR? United Nations Institute for Training and Research One of the UN training and research centers Established in 1965, UNITAR seeks to meet demand from UN Member States for capacity building in Environment; Peace, Security and Diplomacy; and Governance. Offices: Geneva (HQ), New York, Hiroshima, Brazilia
Introduction to UNITAR What is UNOSAT? The Operational Satellite Applications Program of UNITAR Launched in 2000 Primarily dedicated to applying geospatial and satellite imaging solutions to UN and NGO partners Over 1,500 analytical products since 2000 encompassing more than 210 natural disasters and conflict situations EXTRA-BUDGETARY Mapping work split between human rights/security/humanitarian and natural disasters
Goal: provide answers to specific questions relevant to humanitarian operations and human security / rights issues and investigations
Technical infrastructure Based at CERN, the physics and supercomputing research center outside Geneva Enormous technical resources, provides us huge advantage. Currently 60 terabytes of image storage, high speed networks, etc. An ESRI shop as we ve always been, though we ll use QGIS on some occasions like traveling and training ERDAS and ENVI for image processing A variety of specialized hydrology tools
UNOSAT Mapping Group Partners UNHCR High Commissioner for Refugees UNOHCHR- High Commissioner for Human Rights UNOCHA- Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs ICC- UNOCC- UNDSS- International Criminal Court Operational Crisis Center Diplomatic Security Service UNDPKO- Department of Peace Keeping Operations WFP - ACTED- World Food Program Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development UNESCO Education Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNOSAT Rapid Mapping Partners and Requests UNOCC A UN peacekeeping base and displaced person protection area was attacked on 12 October, UNOSAT documenting impacts and assisting in related imagery analysis UN OCHA Conflict in South Sudan has made access to large areas difficult; review of thousands of square kilometres of imagery helps mission planning UNHCR Constructing new refugee settlements requires hydrological analysis to avoid flood prone areas. Currently underway in Ethiopia for South Sudanese refugees UNHCR / UN OCHA / UNICEF / Special Envoy Syrian conflict requires frequent assessments of displaced persons and refugees, security issues, damage, and more. REACH UNOSAT partnership analysing ~7 major Syria cities for damage, our 4 th update of this work. 8
UNOSAT Rapid Mapping Satellites / Systems International Charter on Space and Major Disasters UNOSAT can trigger the Charter on behalf of UN partners DigitalGlobe A large portion of our imagery, delivered often via the EnhancedView system under the NextView license by the US Government Airbus Pleiades in very frequent use, especially for tasking. Currently doing the Myanmar work using the Go Monitor UrtheCast- Deimos-2 satellite now in use by UNOSAT KARI KOMPSAT 3 / 3A now in use by UNOSAT Planet small sat company in use by UNOSAT Sentinel-1 Radar data of use to understand numbers of boats, traffic patterns, flooding Landsat / Sentinel-2 useful for landcover mapping GeoTag-X crowdsourced media analysis system developed by UNOSAT 14
High Resolution Satellites Airbus (European Consortium) Pleiades (2) 50 centimeter resolution DigitalGlobe (US) WorldView-1 50 centimeter resolution WorldView-2 50 centimeter resolution WorldView-3-31 centimetre resolution GeoEye 1 50 centimeter resolution QuickBird 60-65 centimeter resolution (out of service) IKONOS 1 meter resolution (out of service)
DigitalGlobe Acquisitions Syria, 30 days (227 images)
DigitalGlobe Acquisitions Syria, 24 hours
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Syria: IDP Settlement, Idlib Area (26 Aug 2014) One of dozens of settlements mapped over 1,450 sq km for shelter cluster Recurring review of these areas Not publicly released Copyright 2014 DigitalGlobe
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Aleppo Central Prison 37 12'1.191"E 36 17'45.939"N 26 February 2013 FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY 6 February 2014 Notice that in the area of interest (where the two areas of disturbed earth show up white boxes) the surface of the football field (highlighted) looks like a smooth surface contrary to the area on the field next to it which look more like leveled soil surface. Both the color and the texture of the surfaces gives a good indication on the surface type we are seeing on imagery. We do assess this to be a cement surface that has been broken to exposed the soil below.
6 February 2014 Altar of Baal Shamin Northern Peristyle Court Southern Peristyle Court Baal Shamin Temple Imagery Copyright: Airbus Defense and Space Image
Copyright 2014 DigitalGlobe Sirte, Libya 23 October 2012 Figure 4: The Mahari Hotel area near Sirte. Twenty-two covered bodies identified by the on the ground photos possibly visible (red arrows), and numerous light trucks are present (yellow arrows). Location showed similar activity the previous day (21 October), though with less vehicles and 13 possible bodies.
Copyright 2014 DigitalGlobe Azaz, Syria 17 August 2012
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Learn more: http://unitar.org/unosat Humanitarian Data Exchange https://data.humdata.org/ UNOSAT ~10% of data on there Email me to discuss possible collaborations, if you are part of a UN deployment we can help provide imagery and sometimes analysis, and we ll help independent NGO s as possible. If you want to help us we need a variety of web developers, media specialists, GIS users, and more. However, we require 4-6 months of dedicated time from you, not light and sporadic help.
UNITAR Operational Satellite Application Programme (UNOSAT) Contact information: Lars Bromley - Lars.BROMLEY@unitar.org United Nations Institute for Training and Research Institut des Nations Unies pour la formation et la recherche Instituto de las Naciones Unidas para Formación Profesional e Investigaciones Учебньıй и научно-исследовательский институт Организации Объединенньıх Наций معهد األمم المتحدة للتدريب والبحث 联合国训练研究所 Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland T +41 22 917 8400 F +41 22 917 8047 www.unitar.org 36