Documenting Myanmar’s unrest in imagery
September 28th, 2007
Satellite imagery has been released showing evidence of population relocations, refugee camps, and burned villages in the country of Myanmar. Private funding has allowed the AAAS Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights project to capture imagery of the country and compare it to older images of the same areas. The imagery is being used to verify field reports of human rights abuses across the country. Discussions of the reports are available from Reuters and MSNBC. The MSNBC article includes the imagery side by side for comparison.
Image downloaded from the Perry-Castenada Library Map Collection.