Live record
Heritage Conflict Damage tasks very-high-resolution imagery over a protected site once an incident is reported. You get a before and after pair, a classification of what changed and the coordinates, ready for your documentation file.
A report comes in that a protected site has been hit. You open its file: the listing record, the perimeter, the older photographs, whatever condition record exists. Nobody can get to the site. Access is refused, or unsafe, or weeks away.
So you collect what is public. Photographs and video from local people, a news clip, a frame from a satellite viewer, a screenshot a colleague forwarded. None of it was taken for your file.
You don't know the camera angle, the dates are loose, and someone typed the coordinates by hand. The before image is whichever frame happened to be public, on whatever date it was taken. You end up with a folder of screenshots and a paragraph in the report explaining what is missing and why. Your reader, a programme director or a lawyer, asks which image is from which day, and you can't always say.
What changes is where the imagery comes from. It is tasked for your site and your incident date, and the record comes back built for that site.
The last usable pass before the incident date and the first usable pass after it, each carrying its own capture date, cropped to your site perimeter. Delivered as images for the report and as georeferenced files for your GIS.
The changed areas inside the perimeter, each with a land-cover class: standing structure, rubble, bare ground, vegetation. It answers which parts of the site look different between the two dates.
Each changed area with its coordinates and its extent, so a line in your damage report can point to a place on the map.
One dated record per site and incident, with the incident date, both capture dates, the baseline gap and the classification. It attaches to your documentation file. Operational: you can register a site and get a record now.
Send the site perimeter and the incident date from the report. Say what the documentation file needs the record to look like.
We check what recent and archive passes exist over the site, and task a new one where needed. Cloud and satellite revisit set the timing.
The after image is compared with the last known-good pass and the changed areas are classified.
You receive the pair, the classification, the coordinates and the dates in one record. A covered pass is reported as unusable, never as a finding.
The record sits beside field reporting and open-source verification. It gives you a dated imagery observation to attach when the ground can't be reached yet. Your condition record, your site visits and your conclusions stay yours.
Use it for the first account of an incident, to back a line in a damage report, or to show a donor or a legal team what the site looked like on two dated passes. When a field team does reach the site, their findings go in the same file next to it.
That is a call for your legal team. We provide a dated, coordinate-stamped observation, not a legal opinion.
It depends on satellite revisit and weather over the site. We report what is actually available.
Yes. Optical imagery needs clear sky, and a covered pass is reported as unusable.
No. It records what changed on the ground. Actors and intent sit outside what imagery can show.
We source the most recent usable earlier pass. An older or thinner archive means a longer baseline gap, and the record states it.
Take a site where you already hold ground photographs or a field report, send the perimeter and the incident date, and compare what the record shows with what you know.
The site perimeter and the incident date. You get the image pair, the classification, the coordinates and the dates.
Imagery licence and ownership terms are agreed in writing when you get started. If your legal team needs them earlier, ask.
Pricing depends on the site, the imagery used and how many records you need. Tell us your case and we'll scope it.
Live record
Send us a perimeter and an incident date. We'll tell you what the imagery can show.
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