The Rights Track

In Episode 5 of Series 3 we find out how satellites are being used to root out slavery from space. Our guest is Dr Doreen Boyd from the University of Nottingham who is part of a team of researchers who are the first on the world to use geospatial intelligence to identify slavery locations to support the efforts of organisations and individuals trying to root out and put an end to modern slavery in countries around the world. 0.00 - 6.45 Doreen explains how previously she has been using satellites to look at tropical rainforests but more recently as part of the Rights Lab project has been using them to identify locations where modern slavery is occurring  It takes many months to obtain completely cloud free images of the earth's surface but the resolution of the images is improving all the time Todd mentions examples of where satellites have been used to identify human rights abuses such as in Sri Lanka and in South Sudan A major part of the work to date has involved using satellite imagery to identify bric