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Sep 2, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
I've had a few questions over the last couple of days regards to sat. imagery and analysis. Thought some of you might find this following interesting.

At the moment I am looking into the reported #IDF airstrikes in #Syria on the night of 31st August 2020. Reports indicted..
Explosions heard around southern #Damascus, and namely Al-Kiswah, which is a known area to home/house/facilitate #IRGC related activities. Satellite imagery is freely available for interpretation, but the key thing is to look at the details around an event.
See the included, an Army Barrack, Al-Kiswah, Damascus, Syria. An area that could have been targeted by the IDF (the reports suggest otherwise, but it could have been) note the area circled is a fire, causing scared landscape. More often than not, things like fires can be... Image
misinterpreted for airstrikes etc. Key point here is an image is a second in time, you need to have the before the before, and the after the after, more often than not this will take some point to dig into too. Hopefully/maybe I'll be able to share something related soon.
Imagery in tweet courtesy of @planetlabs

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