Corey Scher, PhD

satellite remote sensing for crisis mapping, response, and recovery

Postdoc, Conflict Ecology
Decentralized Damage Mapping Group

Recent

Oct 7 · Destruction continues in Gaza despite ceasefire — BBC
Oct 7 · U.S.-based researchers estimate that more than 245,000 or 75% of pre-war buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed — CBS News (Instagram)
Sep 24 · Conflict mapping research group founded by OSU researcher wins national award for open science — Oregon State University
Sep 9 · Combined satellite and news data capture unseen aspects of war — Nature
Jul 10 · How Venezuela’s ‘Hugo Chávez City’ collapsed — Financial Times
Jul 6 · Venezuela earthquakes in maps and graphics — where they hit and how severe they could be — BBC
Jun 29 · Efforts to Rescue Venezuela Quake Victims Grow More Desperate — New York Times
Jun 29 · Venezuelans search more earthquake ruins as attention turns to humanitarian crisis — AP
Apr 30 · Mirroring Gaza, Israel is destroying towns and villages in southern Lebanon — NPR

Interferogram derived from Sentinel-1 SAR over the Levant — An interferogram at the Dead Sea. Can you spot the RFI? Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel-1 data.