Ahmad Baydoun

Visual Investigations Portfolio:

PBS News

Lebanese villagers blocked from returning home as Israeli forces remain in area

09-02-2025

Produced damage assessment maps and evaluated the environmental impact of bombings on oak tree populations. Showed how Israeli military activity reshaped both human and ecological habitation zones.

Category
Satellite Imagery Analysis, Environmental Destruction, Damage Assessment, Geolocation, Weapon Identification, Lebanon, Israel

PBS News

A look at destruction in Lebanon from Israeli airstrikes and occupation of border region

23-01-2025

Used differential satellite analysis to document structural changes and destruction in border towns. Before-and-after imagery in QGIS revealed patterns of targeting across residential and agricultural areas.

Category
Satellite Imagery Analysis, Damage Assessment, Geolocation, Lebanon, Israel

Amnesty International

Lebanon: Israel’s evacuation ‘warnings’ for civilians misleading and inadequate

04–27–24

Redrew the evacuation zones in Dahieh and Southern Lebanon based on actual strike data, correcting the misleading maps issued by the IDF spokesperson. Spatial analysis challenged the credibility of official warnings.

Category
Mapping, Geolocation, Lebanon, Israel, Illustrations

Amnesty International

Lebanon: Israeli air strikes that killed at least 49 civilians further evidence of war crimes

12–12–2024

Chronolocated and geolocated Israeli airstrikes on civilian areas in Lebanon. Used satellite imagery and open-source media to identify impact sites, timelines, and potential breaches of international law.

Category
Geolocation, Chronolocation, Satellite Imagery Analysis, Lebanon, Israel

AlJazeera English

Is Israel deliberately targeting Lebanon’s first responders?

09/11/2024

Reconstructed the timeline of multiple airstrikes and geolocated a pattern of repeated targeting of first responder teams.

Category
Geolocation, Chronolocation, Lebanon, Israel

Khiam Detention Center

Relaying Memory through a Generated Environment

Simulation

23-02-2021

Reconstructed the Khiam Detention Center in a generated 3D environment, using the avatar of former warden Amer Fakhoury, who evaded justice. The project embodies a memory archive of the architecture of torture and impunity.

Category
3D modeling, Reconstruction, Generated Environment, Lebanon, Israel