Ahmad Baydoun

PBS News

Lebanese villagers blocked from returning home as Israeli forces remain in area

09-02-2025

Produced damage assessment maps and evaluated the environmental impact of bombings on oak tree populations. Showed how Israeli military activity reshaped both human and ecological habitation zones.

Category
Satellite Imagery Analysis, Environmental Destruction, Damage Assessment, Geolocation, Weapon Identification, Lebanon, Israel

PBS News

A look at destruction in Lebanon from Israeli airstrikes and occupation of border region

23-01-2025

Used differential satellite analysis to document structural changes and destruction in border towns. Before-and-after imagery in QGIS revealed patterns of targeting across residential and agricultural areas.

Category
Satellite Imagery Analysis, Damage Assessment, Geolocation, Lebanon, Israel

L’Orient Le Jour

Exclusive: Satellite imagery shows Israeli evacuation warnings during the war may have been used to ‘terrorize’ rather than protect civilians

04–26–24

Identified and analyzed over 67 evacuation warnings to reveal a recurring pattern: most were issued after midnight, minimizing civilian response time. Exposed the use of evacuation orders as a psychological tactic.

Category
Geolocation, Weapon Identification, Chronolocation, Pattern Recognition, Lebanon, Israel

Amnesty International

Lebanon: Israel’s evacuation ‘warnings’ for civilians misleading and inadequate

04–27–24

Redrew the evacuation zones in Dahieh and Southern Lebanon based on actual strike data, correcting the misleading maps issued by the IDF spokesperson. Spatial analysis challenged the credibility of official warnings.

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Tag-2, Tag-3, Tag-4

AirPressure.info

Lawrence Abu Hamdan

01-07-2021

Logged and analyzed over 22,355 Israeli aerial violations into Lebanese airspace. Produced visualizations and pattern recognition graphs showing heavy clustering on Sundays and near-total absence on Saturdays.

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Tag-2, Tag-3, Tag-4

Khiam Detention Center

Relaying Memory through a Generated Environment

Simulation

23-02-2021

Reconstructed the Khiam Detention Center in a generated 3D environment, using the avatar of former warden Amer Fakhoury, who evaded justice. The project embodies a memory archive of the architecture of torture and impunity.

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Tag-2, Tag-3, Tag-4