Seattle-based company's satellite images show damage done in Ukraine

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Satellite images from a local company have been helping to show the damage Russia has done to Ukraine. In some cases, entire communities have been reduced to rubble. FOX13

. In one picture provided to FOX 13, a home improvement store was destroyed in the fighting.

The satellites can also show where military convoys are moving within the country. Minnick says they've been able to identify schools and hospitals that have been destroyed as well. "We’ve been able to track things like what’s been happening on the civilian side, she said. "We’ve seen disproportionate amounts of home improvement stores impacted, schools impacted, as well as hospitals impacted across the country.

"In addition to what we have in our space capability, we are really investing into our analytics and AI capability to turn that, those observations, into information," said Nick Merski, BlackSky Chief Operations Officer. "We monitor shipping locations around the world. One of BlackSky’s capabilities is we monitor local supply chain and seaports. We are monitoring what’s happening in ports across the world."

 

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