Terrorism, Geopolitics, and Oil Security : Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Oil Production of the Islamic State

As the world’s most traded commodity, oil production is typically well monitored and analyzed. It also has established links to geopolitics, international relations, and security. Despite this attention, the illicit production, refining, and trade of oil and derivative products occur all over the wo...

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Main Authors:	Do, Quy-Toan, Shapiro, Jacob N., Elvidge, Christopher D., Abdel-Jelil, Mohamed, Ahn, Daniel P., Baugh, Kimberly, Hansen-Lewis, Jamie, Zhizhin, Mikhail, Bazilian, Morgan D.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier 2018
Subjects:	OIL REVENUE REMOTE SENSING OIL PRODUCTION ISLAMIC STATE ISIL ISIS DAESH RECONSTRUCTION CONFLICT ILLICIT TRADE TERRORISM RESOURCE EXPLOITATION GAS FLARING
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29747

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spelling	okr-10986-297472021-05-25T10:54:37Z Terrorism, Geopolitics, and Oil Security : Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Oil Production of the Islamic State Do, Quy-Toan Shapiro, Jacob N. Elvidge, Christopher D. Abdel-Jelil, Mohamed Ahn, Daniel P. Baugh, Kimberly Hansen-Lewis, Jamie Zhizhin, Mikhail Bazilian, Morgan D. OIL REVENUE REMOTE SENSING OIL PRODUCTION ISLAMIC STATE ISIL ISIS DAESH RECONSTRUCTION CONFLICT ILLICIT TRADE TERRORISM RESOURCE EXPLOITATION GAS FLARING As the world’s most traded commodity, oil production is typically well monitored and analyzed. It also has established links to geopolitics, international relations, and security. Despite this attention, the illicit production, refining, and trade of oil and derivative products occur all over the world and provide significant revenues outside of the oversight and regulation of governments. A prominent manifestation of this phenomenon is how terrorist and insurgent organizations—including the Islamic State group, also known as ISIL/ISIS or Daesh—use oil as a revenue source. Understanding the spatial and temporal variation in production can help determine the scale of operations, technical capacity, and revenue streams. This information, in turn, can inform both security and reconstruction strategies. To this end, we use satellite multi-spectral imaging and ground-truth pre-war output data to effectively construct a real-time census of oil production in areas controlled by the ISIL terrorist group. More broadly, remotely measuring the activity of extractive industries in conflict-affected areas without reliable administrative data can support a broad range of public policy and decisions and military operations. 2018-04-27T16:27:25Z 2018-04-27T16:27:25Z 2018-04-30 Journal Article Energy Research and Social Science 2214-6296 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29747 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Middle East and North Africa Middle East Iraq Syrian Arab Republic
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topic	OIL REVENUE REMOTE SENSING OIL PRODUCTION ISLAMIC STATE ISIL ISIS DAESH RECONSTRUCTION CONFLICT ILLICIT TRADE TERRORISM RESOURCE EXPLOITATION GAS FLARING
spellingShingle	OIL REVENUE REMOTE SENSING OIL PRODUCTION ISLAMIC STATE ISIL ISIS DAESH RECONSTRUCTION CONFLICT ILLICIT TRADE TERRORISM RESOURCE EXPLOITATION GAS FLARING Do, Quy-Toan Shapiro, Jacob N. Elvidge, Christopher D. Abdel-Jelil, Mohamed Ahn, Daniel P. Baugh, Kimberly Hansen-Lewis, Jamie Zhizhin, Mikhail Bazilian, Morgan D. Terrorism, Geopolitics, and Oil Security : Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Oil Production of the Islamic State
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description	As the world’s most traded commodity, oil production is typically well monitored and analyzed. It also has established links to geopolitics, international relations, and security. Despite this attention, the illicit production, refining, and trade of oil and derivative products occur all over the world and provide significant revenues outside of the oversight and regulation of governments. A prominent manifestation of this phenomenon is how terrorist and insurgent organizations—including the Islamic State group, also known as ISIL/ISIS or Daesh—use oil as a revenue source. Understanding the spatial and temporal variation in production can help determine the scale of operations, technical capacity, and revenue streams. This information, in turn, can inform both security and reconstruction strategies. To this end, we use satellite multi-spectral imaging and ground-truth pre-war output data to effectively construct a real-time census of oil production in areas controlled by the ISIL terrorist group. More broadly, remotely measuring the activity of extractive industries in conflict-affected areas without reliable administrative data can support a broad range of public policy and decisions and military operations.
format	Journal Article
author	Do, Quy-Toan Shapiro, Jacob N. Elvidge, Christopher D. Abdel-Jelil, Mohamed Ahn, Daniel P. Baugh, Kimberly Hansen-Lewis, Jamie Zhizhin, Mikhail Bazilian, Morgan D.
author_facet	Do, Quy-Toan Shapiro, Jacob N. Elvidge, Christopher D. Abdel-Jelil, Mohamed Ahn, Daniel P. Baugh, Kimberly Hansen-Lewis, Jamie Zhizhin, Mikhail Bazilian, Morgan D.
author_sort	Do, Quy-Toan
title	Terrorism, Geopolitics, and Oil Security : Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Oil Production of the Islamic State
title_short	Terrorism, Geopolitics, and Oil Security : Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Oil Production of the Islamic State
title_full	Terrorism, Geopolitics, and Oil Security : Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Oil Production of the Islamic State
title_fullStr	Terrorism, Geopolitics, and Oil Security : Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Oil Production of the Islamic State
title_full_unstemmed	Terrorism, Geopolitics, and Oil Security : Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Oil Production of the Islamic State
title_sort	terrorism, geopolitics, and oil security : using remote sensing to estimate oil production of the islamic state
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2018
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29747
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Terrorism, Geopolitics, and Oil Security : Using Remote Sensing to Estimate Oil Production of the Islamic State

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