Aerial photography mapping to monitor the death of migrants at sea?
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Charles
Jun 22, 2012, 5:35:44 AM6/22/12
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Hi there Public Laboratory!
Amazing work you guys are doing!!
We're a group of researchers from Goldsmiths University London, supporting migrants rights organizations in Europe and North Africa to document and bring accountability for the death of migrants at the EU's maritime borders. http://www.forensic-architecture.org/homepage/fields/investigations/sea
We're setting up a platform - watchthemed.crowdmap.com - using all kinds of technology to try to document and map violations in the Mediterranean. We're doing this in collaboration with Boats4People, an important international campaign that will take place this summer between Italy and Tunisia, coalescing around a solidarity boat that will travel between the two shores. http://www.boats4people.org
We thought of trying out drones-balloons to monitor the med, fly banners, launching them from from the coast or the solidarity boat. But for our project this summer - 1-20 July - it will be too tight for us to experiment with this technology on our own...
We just wondered if someone in your community might be based in Italy or Tunisia and just might want to experiment in support of our project... or if their might be a really easy set up we could access and fly from the solidarity boat ourselves?
A bit more technical info on the specific needs of the mission are bellow and more detailed project attached.
Thanks for your attention on such a short notice, if not for this time, we'll surely be in touch in the future!
Best, Charles
Mission description:
The main objective of the mission is monitoring the Central Mediterranean – trying to identify migrants vessels in distress as well as the vessels surrounding them - which is a serious challenge using UAV attached cameras since we are talking about an extremely large surface.
As a non-UAV specialist , I could imagine two possibilities:
1) flying a UAV from the solidarity boat during its travel from Palermo to Monastir and back to Lampedusa, extending its vision so to speak within a larger perimeter, exactly as military and coast guards use helicopters operating from their deck. The main stages of the boat's trajectory are:
- Palermo - Tunis: 7-10 July
- Tunis-Monastir (monitoring along the Tunisian coast): 11-14 July
- Monastir-Lampedusa: 16-19 July
2) flying a UAV from either the Tunisian coast at key points of departure or from the island of Lampedusa’s coast, the point of arrival of many migrants’ vessels. So here the UAV would be launched from the coast at either end of the main migration axes:
- 1) Tripoli (12' 32.876174, 13.187507) – Lampedusa (35.508682, 12.592918)
- 2) Jarjis (33.503681, 11.11538) – Lampedusa (35.508682, 12.592918)
- 3) Sfax (34.745159, 10.7613) – Lampedusa (35.508682, 12.592918)
Key to defining the best solution would be knowing the autonomy of your UAV: how long can it fly, over what distance?
Amazing work you guys are doing!!
We're a group of researchers from Goldsmiths University London, supporting migrants rights organizations in Europe and North Africa to document and bring accountability for the death of migrants at the EU's maritime borders. http://www.forensic-architecture.org/homepage/fields/investigations/sea
We're setting up a platform - watchthemed.crowdmap.com - using all kinds of technology to try to document and map violations in the Mediterranean. We're doing this in collaboration with Boats4People, an important international campaign that will take place this summer between Italy and Tunisia, coalescing around a solidarity boat that will travel between the two shores. http://www.boats4people.org
We thought of trying out drones-balloons to monitor the med, fly banners, launching them from from the coast or the solidarity boat. But for our project this summer - 1-20 July - it will be too tight for us to experiment with this technology on our own...
We just wondered if someone in your community might be based in Italy or Tunisia and just might want to experiment in support of our project... or if their might be a really easy set up we could access and fly from the solidarity boat ourselves?
A bit more technical info on the specific needs of the mission are bellow and more detailed project attached.
Thanks for your attention on such a short notice, if not for this time, we'll surely be in touch in the future!
Best, Charles
Mission description:
The main objective of the mission is monitoring the Central Mediterranean – trying to identify migrants vessels in distress as well as the vessels surrounding them - which is a serious challenge using UAV attached cameras since we are talking about an extremely large surface.
As a non-UAV specialist , I could imagine two possibilities:
1) flying a UAV from the solidarity boat during its travel from Palermo to Monastir and back to Lampedusa, extending its vision so to speak within a larger perimeter, exactly as military and coast guards use helicopters operating from their deck. The main stages of the boat's trajectory are:
- Palermo - Tunis: 7-10 July
- Tunis-Monastir (monitoring along the Tunisian coast): 11-14 July
- Monastir-Lampedusa: 16-19 July
2) flying a UAV from either the Tunisian coast at key points of departure or from the island of Lampedusa’s coast, the point of arrival of many migrants’ vessels. So here the UAV would be launched from the coast at either end of the main migration axes:
- 1) Tripoli (12' 32.876174, 13.187507) – Lampedusa (35.508682, 12.592918)
- 2) Jarjis (33.503681, 11.11538) – Lampedusa (35.508682, 12.592918)
- 3) Sfax (34.745159, 10.7613) – Lampedusa (35.508682, 12.592918)
Key to defining the best solution would be knowing the autonomy of your UAV: how long can it fly, over what distance?
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