NYT: ‘What Ukraine Has Lost During Russia’s Invasion’
Marco Hernandez, Jeffrey Gettleman, Finbarr O’Reilly, and Tim Wallace, with reporting and imagery for The New York Times:
Few countries since World War II have experienced this level of
devastation. But it’s been impossible for anybody to see more than
glimpses of it. It’s too vast. Every battle, every bombing, every
missile strike, every house burned down, has left its mark across
multiple front lines, back and forth over more than two years.
This is the first comprehensive picture of where the Ukraine war
has been fought and the totality of the destruction. Using
detailed analysis of years of satellite data, we developed a
record of each town, each street, each building that has been
blown apart.
The scale is hard to comprehend. More buildings have been
destroyed in Ukraine than if every building in Manhattan were to
be leveled four times over. Parts of Ukraine hundreds of miles
apart look like Dresden or London after World War II, or Gaza
after half a year of bombardment.
To produce these estimates, The New York Times worked with two
leading remote sensing scientists, Corey Scher of the City
University of New York Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of
Oregon State University, to analyze data from radar
satellites that can detect small changes in the built
environment.
A staggering, sobering work of journalism and data visualization.
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Marco Hernandez, Jeffrey Gettleman, Finbarr O’Reilly, and Tim Wallace, with reporting and imagery for The New York Times:
Few countries since World War II have experienced this level of
devastation. But it’s been impossible for anybody to see more than
glimpses of it. It’s too vast. Every battle, every bombing, every
missile strike, every house burned down, has left its mark across
multiple front lines, back and forth over more than two years.
This is the first comprehensive picture of where the Ukraine war
has been fought and the totality of the destruction. Using
detailed analysis of years of satellite data, we developed a
record of each town, each street, each building that has been
blown apart.
The scale is hard to comprehend. More buildings have been
destroyed in Ukraine than if every building in Manhattan were to
be leveled four times over. Parts of Ukraine hundreds of miles
apart look like Dresden or London after World War II, or Gaza
after half a year of bombardment.
To produce these estimates, The New York Times worked with two
leading remote sensing scientists, Corey Scher of the City
University of New York Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of
Oregon State University, to analyze data from radar
satellites that can detect small changes in the built
environment.
A staggering, sobering work of journalism and data visualization.