Deepfake Geography: Detecting AI-Generated Satellite Images

The rapid advancement of generative models such as StyleGAN2 and Stable Diffusion poses a growing threat to the authenticity of satellite imagery, which is increasingly vital for reliable analysis and decision-making across scientific and security domains. While deepfake detection has been...

Satellite Images Point to Indiscriminate Israeli Attacks on Gaza’s Health Care Facilities

New research finds that Israel’s attacks on Gaza damaged hospitals and other medical facilities at the same rate as other buildings, potentially in violation of international law...

Satellite Images Show the Devastating Cost of Sudan’s Aerial War

As civil conflict continues in and above the streets of Khartoum, satellite images from the Conflict Observatory at Yale University have captured the catastrophic damage...

Blurred Satellite Images Make Rebuilding Palestine Harder

Digital researchers and aid groups say free mapping tools like Google Earth are too imprecise...

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 investigation shows Russian disinformation campaigns have global reach

A little background: on July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot from the sky on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur above the Ukraine. The plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile, and as a result, all 298 people on board were killed. At that time, there was a revolt of pro-Russia...