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Galen Reich

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As seen in: Bellingcat, PLOS, Redbrick (University of Birmingham)
@Bellingcat | Ex-BBC R&D; & Panorama | PhD in Electrical Engineering | He/Him 🦋 bsky.app/profile/galen.reich.me.uk

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Burning Forests: Tools for Tracking and Reporting Wildfire Damage

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By Galen Reich, Wim Zwijnenburg
| Bellingcat Verified
If you’ve seen reports of a wildfire in your region and you’re looking for open source data, NASA’s fire-tracking tool is often the first place to start. It provides a heat signature and an approximate location. But detection is only the first step in understanding what’s happened. In this guide, we explore ways to analyse and report on the scale and severity of wildfires, including those in protected areas where ecosystems are often most fragile.
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The Bellingcat Open Source Challenge is Back

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By Galen Reich, Merel Zoet
| Bellingcat Verified
At the end of last year, Bellingcat released a set of online challenges that we hoped would test the skills of our audience and the wider open source investigator community. We wanted the challenges to be educational, to encourage people to carry out responsible online research and, most importantly, to be fun! Around 35,000 people took part, far more than we expected.
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Chasing Shadows: Geolocate Images with Bellingcat's Shadow Finder Tool

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By Galen Reich, Gabòr Friesen
| Bellingcat Verified
Geolocation is often a time-consuming task. Researchers often spend hours poring over photos, scouring satellite images and sifting through street view. But what if there was another way to quickly narrow down your search area? Bellingcat’s new Shadow Finder Tool, developed with our Discord community, helps you quickly narrow down where an image was taken, by reducing your search area from the entire globe to just a handful of countries and locations.
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