Ollie Ballinger

Private satellite imaging companies are restricting access to imagery over Iran, making it difficult to verify destruction caused by U.S./Israeli strikes. I developed a method to detect building damage in open source radar imagery, now peer reviewed: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The results above can be replicated in the notebook below. To conduct damage assessment in a new area, just change the bounding box coordinates. colab.research.google.com/drive/1lCQOoKE…

It's not perfect but it works; in the paper, accuracy is assessed using >2 million labeled building footprints across 30 cities across Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan, Syria, and Iraq, with building-level damage AUC = 0.87. Code and inputs fully open source: github.com/oballinger/PWT…

Private satellite imaging companies are restricting access to imagery over Iran, making it difficult to verify destruction caused by U.S./Israeli strikes. I developed a method to detect building damage in open source radar imagery, now peer reviewed: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Various pizzerias nearby the Pentagon are already reporting high traffic. The Pentagon subway station also has high traffic. As of 11:50am ET

🚨Breaking | Israeli occupation forces executed two young Palestinians in Jenin in cold blood, even after they had turned themselves in. An outright extrajudicial killing in blatant violation of international humanitarian law.

Israeli forces fatally shot two Palestinian men at point-blank range moments after they appeared to surrender in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday in an incident captured on camera. wapo.st/4roPymr

Over the past year, our team reviewed hundreds of clips of airstrikes released on social media by the IDF - systematically geolocating them and matching them to the civilians who were actually killed. The result is our most powerful investigation to date. idf-tweets-gaza.airwars.org

Full arms embargo to Israel NOW.

NEW -- the @UN's World Food Programme is pausing all aid movement within #Gaza, after one of its convoys was fired upon by @IDF forces near a checkpoint yesterday.

Violent riots by groups associated with far-right networks have erupted in the UK. Social media videos of groups setting fire to hotels, police vans and breaking into shops are everywhere. It’s important to archive this material so it doesn’t disappear. Here's how to do that… 🧵

Data from Amazon Mining watch shows that illegal miners continue to advance on indigenous lands in the Amazon using new methods of gold laundering. Our partners at @pulitzercenter & @reporterb highlight the complex reality on the ground.