Land, Community, and Power was a very pleasant change scenery compared to other courses I have taken so far this year. At the end of our second day of intensives, the class was able to go on a quick field trip to a community-owned plot of land that grew, harvested and sold their own vegtables. It was nice to experience an example of what the course was teaching in-person. For our assessment, we get the opportunity to create a case-study of community-owned land of our own choosing. I have decided to focus on the transfer of Government and State-owned land in the United States. Using OnX, an app mostly used by recreationalist to discover paths and routes while in the outdoors, I was able to see State and Government-owned areas of land that were completely landlocked and in-accessible to the public. This was quite fascinating to me as it was the first time I had experienced a way to use satellite/mapping imagery to make decisions and come up with a plan.

Connecting this to my final project, I wonder how valuable the appliance of satellite imagery is to conflcit prediction models. I am sure, the ability to see developments in infrastructure or possible signs of migration patterns in near-real time could be used as important indicators of potential outbreaks of violence. I will need to do more research into the topic, but I am excited to see if this can be an impactful piece of research towards my dissertation.

Satellite Imagery as a Possible Tool for Forecasting Conflicts / Jantz Andersson / Knowledge Integration and Project Planning: Future Governance (2023-24) by is licensed under a