The United States Institute of Peace blog, The Olive Branch, featured a new grant to the AAAS Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project in a recent article. The AAAS grant, Hostile Territory: Revealing Trends in Cross-Border Conflict Using Satellite Imagery, is an 18-month project designed to analyze cross-border conflicts using satellite imagery and to identify trends for future use of the technology as a means of conflict early-warning prediction and prevention.
Read the article by Viola Gienger at The Olive Branch: Detecting Looming Border Conflicts Using Satellites.