It would be nice if @Maxar and other satellite imagery companies sharing their imagery from Ukraine publicly could also make that imagery and imagery showing larger areas available on Google Earth. It's the kind of thing that's incredibly helpful for researchers.
When we were investigating cross border artillery strikes from Russia into Ukraine in 2014 that sort of imagery was extremely useful, but there was months between it being taken and then appearing on Google Earth.
Had that imagery appeared on Google Earth within a few days of the events occurring it could have been possible to prove Russia was firing artillery into Ukraine as it was happening when the internationally community could have responded, not 9 months afterwards,
Thanks to that shelling the conflict has continued for years, results in thousands dying and the shooting down of a commercial airliner killing 298 people. Had it been stopped then perhaps those people would still be alive today.
So it would be nice to see some of the imagery from the current situation being made available much more rapidly, might even save some lives.
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