Satellite Photos Show Cleansing of Syrian Site
Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 3:01PM 
New commercial satellite photos show that a Syrian site believed to have been attacked by Israel last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what some analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor. Read More (NYTimes). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I found it interesting how traditionally "filtered" news relating to wars/conflict found more accountability to the public after the integration of global communication systems into society. We saw it during the second Iraq War with "embedded" journalists, freelance journalism, and first hand accounts from soldiers utilizing digital cameras, cell phones, and blogs to relay uncensored information that once was filtered by those in power. With the availability of high spatial and temporal resolution satellite imagery it seems the public has one more weapon to keep tabs on our government and others. Cheers, Josh 
Reader Comments (1)
Thanks Josh,
I categorized this post into news, remote sensing, and cool.
I think you are right in your comments, but to some degree, we still can see only what is available. I wonder if more GE black-out areas will be in our future.
I also want to start blogging instances of RS/GIS-supported environmental (or otherwise) espionage, like I mentioned in class, with examples taken from building or permit infractions, and / or cases of geospatial support for human rights, like we saw with your last Burma post.