User Optimized Provision of Conflict Related Satellite- and Geoinformation - Ukraine Case Study

Recent events in conflict zones around the world show the importance for humanitarian operations to have access to reliable information. Aid agencies, in particular, are confronted with a multitude of information sources that are not necessarily structured or tailored to their needs.The presented study uses the conflict in Ukraine to illustrate the development of user-adapted geospatial information products. They require (1) the collection of satellite, web and other freely available geospatial data from different sources, and (2) the extraction of relevant situational information using AI analysis to combine it in a meaningful way so that (3) demand-driven information products are available in an interactive situation display for humanitarian aid activities. The analyses focus on identifying and qualifying changes in settlement areas, on detecting damage on buildings and infrastructure, on quantifying the number of people affected and on how to visualize the information for humanitarian aid purposes.