A group of UCLA geographers published a paper yesterday in the MIT International Review entitled “Finding Osama bin Laden: An Application of Biogeographic Theories and Satellite Imagery”. The UCLA team used purely open source data, including “Landsat ETM+, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, Defense Meteorological Satellite, QuickBird”. Then used a variety of commons geographic analysis [...]
Continue Reading →We’re wrapping up a great time at GEOINT this week, and wanted to share just a few short posts that caught our attention about the show. Sean Gillies gives his hilarious opinion of the GEOINT blog, while All Points Joe Francica shared a biting commentary for one vendor who Continue Reading →
This is the final blog post in our eight part series on violence in Iraq and Afghanistan before and after the military surge. We have discussed our seven key findings in great detail and provided our in depth analysis and the raw data for our analysis on Both Finder! and Maker!. We welcome [...]
Continue Reading →Key Finding #7
Violent attacks in Iraq have been geographically concentrated and stable over time but are far more dispersed and locationally erratic in Afghanistan. The shape file, which was downloaded from Finder!, was used to run spatial statistics on the trends, particularly the distribution of the attacks in each country. To display and [...]
Key Finding #6
The overall trend of violence in Iraq has been moving gradually east towards the Iranian border. In Afghanistan, more recent violence has been occurring in the southeast and northeast portions of the country. The map below shows which parts of Iraq and Afghanistan have seen the greatest increases in [...]
Key Finding #5
From January of 2005 until March of 2008, there were a total of 487 reported attacks on energy infrastructure. In that time, the highest number of attacks was in the first quarter of 2005 and the smallest number was in the first quarter of 2008. The decrease from 2005 to 2008 [...]
Key Finding #4
The percentage of total attacks that are IED related has increased by 13.19% in Afghanistan, and 14.75% in Iraq, from the beginning of 2005 to the end of the 1st quarter of 2008. The pre-surge average for the percentage of IED attacks in Afghanistan was 18.81% and 35.66% in Iraq. After [...]
While there has been a shift in percent change in violence from Iraq to Afghanistan, in total violence, Afghanistan is dwarfed by Iraq. Since the surge, the total number of attacks in Iraq is equal to 5465 attacks while Afghanistan is at 1104 attacks. Tables 1 and 2 support this conclusion. The figure below provides [...]
Continue Reading →Key Finding # 2
When examining the total violence, Afghanistan’s percentage share of violence has increased from 12% to 17%. The share of fatalities increased the most, nearly doubling following the surge. In both periods, the highest shares have been IED fatalities. Over a quarter of all IED fatalities in the post-surge [...]
There has been a heavy emphasis on the shift in violence from Iraq to Afghanistan in recent months by both the press and presidential candidates. While there has been anecdotal evidence to support this assertion, there has not been a quantitative analysis of the violence made available to the public. To fill [...]
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