It would be really great if once @Maxar or @planet get their first clear satellite images of Mariupol after the clouds clear that imagery could be available immediately on @googleearth so the open source community can rapidly assess the scale of destruction in the city.
https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1502661634887720968
There's very limited imagery coming from Mariupol, so it's difficult to assess the level of destruction in the city, so satellite imagery will play a key role in that. Getting it quickly and in a way that helps assist analysis would be immensely helpful for everyone.
Amnesty did excellent work using a crowdsourcing model to scour satellite imagery of Raqqa and document the scale of destruction, and it's something that could easily be repeated with Ukraine with the right backing amnesty.org.uk/press-releases…
It's been very good to see @Maxar and @planet release small parts of satellite imagery, and they obviously have a business model that means they can't give everything away for free, but it could be an opportunity to do something new and really significant space.com/mariupol-ukrai…
If you want to see how much detail you can see of cities being destroyed then visit 33.537939, 36.342839 on Google Earth, switch on historical imagery, and go through the imagery one by one until today. It's would be great to see that today for Mariupol (cloud permitting) 
I should note that for security purposes there should always be a reasonable delay between the capture of imagery and it being published. Certainly after a city is captured we should see at least one full image of it.
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