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This project wields data from the Global Human Settlement Layer, which uses “satellite imagery, census data, and volunteered geographic information” to create population density maps. In parts of the world where census data is unreliable (e.g., India, China), population density was visibly noisy on the maps.
Nov 1, 2015 · The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed military and civilian personnel, known as Human Terrain Teams (HTTs), whose mission was to conduct social science ...
Brian R Price. 2017. Article for Joint Force Quarterly, examining efforts by various DoD and Intelligence Community agencies to integrate socio-cultural knowledge in the wake of the disbanding of the Human Terrain System in 2014. Examines the risks associated with bringing such research "in-house" instead of engaging with academia.
The deployed military swiftly recognized that understanding the “human terrain” was critical to accomplishing their mission and so an experimental program called the Human Terrain System that embedded teams of mixed military and civilian members with forces in Iraq and Afghanistan was launched.
Sep 28, 2017 · Human Terrain Team consisting of U.S. Army Soldiers and civilians, along with Afghan interpreter, meet with local citizens of village near Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan (U.S. Army/Stephen Schester) a military officer, Active duty or retired), several field data gatherers (research analysts), and one or two members to manage data and ...
Feb 15, 2011 · ABSTRACT The advent of the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System (HTS) and the recruitment of anthropologists to provide “cultural knowledge” for the purpose of more effective counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan has created numerous conflicts and debates between HTS advocates and anthropological critics. These debates involve issues of ...
Existing Army intelligence units have begun using “human terrain analysis” without conducting ethnographic research or recruiting civilian social scientists, while new units are competing for funding, such as the Socio-Cultural Research and Advisory Teams (SCRATs) to be employed by AFRICOM under different leadership and distinct guidelines ...
