Lights Out Inwards Syria

In his recent Lights On & Lights Out comparing of NASA's 2012 as well as 2016 Black Marble maps John Nelson drew attending to how NASA's imagery revealed the incredible autumn of nighttime lighting inwards war-torn Syria. The BBC has at 1 time created a serial of map animations which likewise role nighttime satellite imagery to drastically illustrate the final result of the state of war on Syria's electricity supply.

In Syria from Space the BBC has created 3 mapped animations showing how the cities of Aleppo, Damascus as well as Raqqa direct keep been suffering from a lack of electricity supply. Using nighttime satellite imagery from NASA the BBC has made an interactive map for each of the cities which shows the cities lit upwards earlier the civil state of war began as well as and then become black equally the state of war takes hold.

As the mapped animations plays out y'all tin persuasion the devastating final result of the state of war on Syria's electricity supply. On each map the lights showtime to become out equally the state of war takes its final result on the country's infrastructure.

The BBC has likewise used daytime aerial imagery to provide earlier as well as afterwards images of ability plants, dams as well as electricity substations inwards the country. These earlier as well as afterwards images are used to present the harm beingness done to Syria's infrastructure as well as to explicate why those lights are going off inwards Syria's towns as well as cities.