Use of Satellite Information for Evaluation of Socio-Economic Consequences of the War in Ukraine

Yelistratova, Lesia; Аpostolov, Aleksandr; Khodorovskyi, A.Ya.; Khyzhniak, A.V.; Tomchenko, Оlha; Lyalko, V.І.

doi:10.15407/ugz2022.02.011

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“…Li et al applied the change of nighttime lighting area during the Syrian crisis for a long time and concluded that there was a linear relationship between the loss of nighttime light and the number of lost population, and confirmed the effectiveness of NTL in monitoring humanitarian crisis [14]. In recent years, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor on the National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite has become a new source for monitoring light at night, and it can provide better quality data [15], and these data were used in the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022 for war action interpretation, socio-economic assessment and refugee population monitoring [16][17][18].…”

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Monitoring Urban Change in Conflict from the Perspective of Optical and SAR Satellites: The Case of Mariupol, a City in the Conflict between RUS and UKR

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Modern armed conflicts can cause serious humanitarian disasters, and remote sensing technology is critical in monitoring war crimes and assessing post-war damage. In this study, a constrained energy minimization algorithm incorporating the feature bands (IFB-CEM) is designed to detect urban burning areas in optical images. Due to the difficulty of obtaining the ground survey data of the battlefield, the dual-polarization normalized coherence index (DPNCI) is designed based on the multi-temporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image, and the quantitative inversion and evaluation of the destruction of urban architecture are combined with the public images on the Internet. The results show that the burning area is widely distributed in the armed conflict region, and the distribution is most concentrated around the Azovstal steel and iron works. The burning area reached its peak around 22 March, and its change is consistent with the conflict process in time and space. About 79.2% of the buildings in the city were severely damaged or completely destroyed, and there was a significant correlation with burning exposure. The results of this study show that publicly available medium-resolution remote sensing data and Internet information have the ability to respond quickly to the damage assessment of armed conflict and can provide preliminary reference information for dealing with humanitarian disasters.

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Monitoring Urban Change in Conflict from the Perspective of Optical and SAR Satellites: The Case of Mariupol, a City in the Conflict between RUS and UKR

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“…Most of the available studies utilize satellite imagery to evaluate the accessibility and connectivity of transport network during such events (7)(8)(9)(10). Among these, a recent effort has also used satellite information for evaluating socio-economic consequences of the war in Ukraine (11). On the contrary, as a comparative case, the global disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic has received a significant degree of research attention (1,12,13).…”

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Analyzing and Modeling Network Travel Patterns During the Ukraine Invasion Using Crowd-Sourced Pervasive Traffic Data

Waller

Qurashi

Sotnikova

et al. 2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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In 2022, Ukraine is suffering an invasion which has resulted in acute impacts playing out over time and geography. This paper examines the impact of the ongoing disruption on traffic behavior using analytics as well as zonal-based network models. The methodology is a data-driven approach that utilizes obtained travel-time conditions within an evolutionary algorithm framework which infers origin–destination demand values in an automated process based on traffic assignment. Because of the automation of the implementation, numerous daily models can be approximated for multiple cities. The novelty of this paper versus the previously published core methodology includes an analysis to ensure the obtained data is appropriate, since some data sources were disabled because of the ongoing disruption. Further novelty includes a direct linkage of the analysis to the timeline of disruptions to examine the interaction in a new way. Finally, specific network metrics are identified which are particularly suited for conceptualizing the impact of conflict disruptions on traffic network conditions. The ultimate aim is to establish processes, concepts, and analysis to advance the broader activity of rapidly quantifying the traffic impacts of conflict scenarios.

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Assessment and monitoring of fires caused by the War in Ukraine on Landscape scale

Tomchenko,

Khyzhniak,

Sheviakina

et al. 2023

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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The article assesses the changes in the state of Ukraine’s natural environment, namely due to the fire on its territories as a result of military operations. Remote sensing can be considered as a decision support tool for landscape management, remote sensing plays a vital operational tool in the affected areas to assess the consequences, as well as to make appropriate decisions to protect the environment and support environmental recovery programs in these areas. This paper presented applying of remote sensing methods to assess large fires caused by military events in Ukraine war using the VIIRS spectroradiometer (375 m) on board the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite and NOAA-20 satellites, as well as NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) resource. The paper presents examples of the use of remote sensing to detect changes in territories affected by military operations, and provided estimates of the total number of fires in 2022. Authors proposed a methodology for obtaining daily data on the localization of fires in the territories of active hostilities, in particular in 15 regions of Ukraine that are closest to the front line. Results of this paper indicated the VIIRS spectroradiometer and the FIRM’s resource as an effective tool for monitoring fires and assessing changes in the environment caused by them as a result of military operations in Ukraine. The possibility of using satellite imagery for operational fire monitoring has been proven, which, in combination with traditional ground-based data, can play a crucial role in protecting civilians and providing evidence of environmental violations.

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Use of Satellite Information for Evaluation of Socio-Economic Consequences of the War in Ukraine

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Monitoring Urban Change in Conflict from the Perspective of Optical and SAR Satellites: The Case of Mariupol, a City in the Conflict between RUS and UKR

Monitoring Urban Change in Conflict from the Perspective of Optical and SAR Satellites: The Case of Mariupol, a City in the Conflict between RUS and UKR

Analyzing and Modeling Network Travel Patterns During the Ukraine Invasion Using Crowd-Sourced Pervasive Traffic Data

Assessment and monitoring of fires caused by the War in Ukraine on Landscape scale

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