Science Anti-slavery organizations, geographers and computer scientists to join forces in the fight against corrupt slave owners and forced labour. What the three together? The satellite imagery.
In 2015, the satellite imagery used for the first time to illegal work to detect. The company DigitalGlobe – mainly images provides Google Earth urged Google users to zoom in on the Voltameer in Ghana. Supposedly there was talk of child labour in numerous fisheries. the
“So, we wanted to go in search of the fishing boats and their owners,” said Rhiannan Price, CEO of DigitalGlobe. Eventually, indicating no less than 90.000 users 80.000 suspicious boats and buildings. the
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The innovative opsporingstechniek put scientists from the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham (UK )think. And soon, they developed algorithms that no appeal need to do on the good will of Google users. The initiative was renamed ‘Slavery From Space’initiative. the
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The research lab of the University of Nottingham is targeting mainly brick making, one of the main economic sectors in South-east Asia. Unfortunately, it is also a sector where child labor and slavery prevail. While it was previously estimated that there are about 20,000 brick making in South Asia would be counted the algorithms and satellite imagery of Slavery From Space no less than twice as much (55.387).
Not only the results but also the methods that the research team used, were quite innovative. Slavery From Space is the first observatory that makes use of satellites.
the satellites brought the red-highlighted squares in the middle of a large oval oven in the picture. Because even from space is such a picture. “The brick ovens of brick making. You can the sites not be confused with something else,” says Doreen Boyd, geografe and research leader of the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham.
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