[GEOG MAJORS] UW Data Science Seminar Thursday March 6: Mia Bennett

[Nell Gross via geogu-l]

Please join us Thursday, March 6, for the UW Data Science Seminar<https://escience.washington.edu/events/uw-data-science-seminar-mia-bennett/> with a presentation from Mia Bennett, UW Geography Associate Professor. The seminar will be held in-person in Hitchcock Hall 132<https://www.washington.edu/maps/#!/hck> at 4:30 PM.

Title: Pixel Politics: Advancing Critical Remote Sensing

Abstract: While critical GIS is a widely researched subfield within geography, critical remote sensing has received less attention. As remotely sensed imagery and the “view from above” become more prevalent in everything from daily life to newspaper reporting, agriculture, and war, research is needed into the political and technological contexts in which satellites and satellite data are embedded. Unlike maps, which any individual can produce, generating satellite Earth observation imagery requires engineering expensive satellites and launching them into orbit. As a result, national governments have traditionally dominated the sector, though private companies are now challenging their monopoly. While the emerging military-digital complex maintains a hold on the production of satellite data, its analysis is increasingly open to any individual with access to a computer or mobile phone. The growing accessibility of satellite data may engender new and more critical approaches within remote sensing, with links to open source intelligence and investigative journalism. In this talk, I will consider the politics and ethics of satellite imagery in the New Space era and sketch out the three building blocks of critical remote sensing: exposure, engagement, and empowerment.
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Kate Rich, PhD (She/Her)
Communications Specialist | eScience Institute<https://escience.washington.edu/>

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