SatSummit 2024
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Speakers

Jamon Van Den Hoek, PhD

Associate Professor of Geography at Oregon State University. He/Him They/Them.

About

Jamon Van Den Hoek is an Associate Professor of Geography at Oregon State University where he leads the Conflict Ecology lab (www.conflict-ecology.org). Jamon's research lies at the intersection of humanitarian and peace and conflict research, land cover/land use change, and remote sensing and geospatial sciences. He uses open satellite data to monitor damage to cities and landscapes caused by armed conflict, develop new approaches to map refugee movements and refugee-environment relationships, and assess long-term environmental and climatic changes in politically fragile contexts around the world. Jamon was a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center and completed his PhD in Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.


On the agenda

  1. Live Monitoring Conflict Discussion

    May. 17, 02:45pm
    Working Session
    The North Hub

    The past year has seen an unprecedented uptake of EO data for crisis monitoring. Conflict in Ukraine and Gaza shows an acute need for EO-driven documentation of the consequences of armed conflicts on cities, communities, and landscapes. But these efforts face real challenges, including ethical concerns, uneven data access and data restrictions, and political sensitivities of public and commercial data providers. Further, this work's urgent and sensitive nature makes it prone to siloing and duplication of efforts. This working session will discuss the current state of EO in conflict monitoring and efforts to advance the state of the practice.

    Moderators

    1. Jamon Van Den Hoek, PhD

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Sponsors

Platinum

  1. NASA Lifelines

Bronze

  1. Element84

  2. Esri

  3. Impact Observatory

  4. United States Agency for International Development (USAID)