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The architecture of data forensics
At 11.39am on August 1, 2014, a European satellite called Pleiades happened to be passing over Gaza and took a single, high resolution photograph. This image is a rare insight into the day of conflict as it developed. It is possible to see a recent explosion, areas burning and tanks moving into position. The resolution of 50 centimetres per pixel was previously unavailable for satellite images of Gaza because of the US monopoly and a US-Israeli agreement that forced all satellite images of the area to be masked by a low-resolution veil -- European satellites do not have such restrictions.CNES 2014, DIST. AIRBUS DS, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FA investigators take standard architectural and digital tools such as telemetry, video-footage syncing and shadow clocks, and repurpose them to reveal the secrets of conflict zones. Weizman's team has also pioneered plume analysis...Weizman and his colleagues' brief is as wide-ranging as man's cruelty to man: they mine the information seam where enemies clash, where migrants drown, natives are dispossessed and civilians bombed.
— Wired
For the January 2016 issue of WIRED magazine, Michael Hodges profiled the work of Forensic Architecture (FA) and the organisation's director Eyal Weizman.
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