Conflict Ecology Damage Monitoring Platform
Sentinel-1 SAR Coherent Change Detection — conflict-ecology.org
Active Monitoring: Last updated March 12, 2026
Monitoring structural damage across Iran following the onset of the 2026 Iran War on February 28, 2026. Sentinel-1 SAR coherent change detection is being applied to all post-event acquisitions from March 2, 2026 onward, analyzing all scenes against one year of historical imagery. To date, over 6,000 interferometric pairs have been processed from 24 TB of raw satellite data, with results generated through March 10, 2026.
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Active monitoring is ongoing, with near real-time processing of new Sentinel-1 acquisitions from downlink. We are currently prioritizing Iran and will extend coverage regionally to Israel, Lebanon, and remaining Gulf countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, UAE) where radio frequency interference conditions permit. An email notification will be sent with each update.
Near real-time satellite-derived structural damage assessments produced using Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar coherent change detection. Data are made available for research, humanitarian, and journalistic use under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
Citation
These preliminary, near real-time results are adapted from methods described in the following peer-reviewed and in-preparation publications:
- Scher and Van Den Hoek (2025). Science of Remote Sensing
- Scher and Van Den Hoek (2025). arXiv preprint
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