# Remote Sensing for International Peace and Security: Its Role and Implications
## 4 Discussion
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c} \hline \hline
**No.** & **Authors** & **Publication Year** & **Study Area** &
\begin{tabular}{c} **Remote Sensing** \\ **Sensors** \\ \end{tabular} & **Methodologies** \\ \hline
3 & [PERSON] et al. [45] & 2003 & Tanzania & IKONOS &
\begin{tabular}{c} Supervised, unsupervised \\ image classification \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline
4 & [PERSON]. [79] & 2006 & East Timor & Landsat &
\begin{tabular}{c} Visual image \\ interpretation \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline
5 & [PERSON]. [80] & 2008 & Darfur, Sudan & \
\begin{tabular}{c} MODIS, \\ SPOT-vegetation, \\ Climate data \\ \end{tabular} &
\begin{tabular}{c} Temporal change in \\ vegetation phenology \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline
6 & [PERSON] [53] & 2008 & Darfur, Sudan & Landsat ETM+ &
\begin{tabular}{c} Normalized burn ratio \\ (NBR) \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline
7 & [PERSON] et al. [54] & 2008 &
\begin{tabular}{c} Rift Valley \\ province, Kenya \\ \end{tabular} & MODIS & Active fire detection \\ \hline
8 & [PERSON] et al. [83] & 2009 & Uganda &
\begin{tabular}{c} Landsat, Google \\ Earth \\ \end{tabular} & Visual interpretation \\ \hline
9 & [PERSON] et al. [84] & 2010 & \begin{tabular}{c} The Democratic \\ Republic of the \\ Congo \\ \end{tabular} & \
\begin{tabular}{c} Rapideye, \\ Geoeye-1 \\ \end{tabular} &
\begin{tabular}{c} Object-based image \\ classification \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline
10 & [PERSON] et al. [48] & 2012 & \begin{tabular}{c} South Sudan and \\ Uganda border \\ \end{tabular} & \
\begin{tabular}{c} Landsat, MODIS, \\ Aerial \\ photographs \\ \end{tabular} &
\begin{tabular}{c} Image classification, TCA, \\ disturbance index (DI), \\ NDVI \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline
11 & [PERSON] et al. [59] & 2012 & \
\begin{tabular}{c} Northern Darfur, \\ Sudan \\ \end{tabular} & QuickBird &
\begin{tabular}{c} LULC, Object-based \\ image analysis (OBIA) \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline
12 & [PERSON] and [PERSON] [52] & 2013 & Darfur, Sudan & Landsat & Reflectance, TCA \\ \hline
13 & [PERSON] et al. [49] & 2017 & Yemen & NPP-VIIRS &
\begin{tabular}{c} Theil-Sen Median \\ Trend Method, \\ Nighttime Light Indexes \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline
14 & [PERSON] et al. [60] & 2017 & \
\begin{tabular}{c} Southern Turkey, \\ Syria, and \\ Northern Iraq \\ \end{tabular} &
\begin{tabular}{c} High-resolution \\ satellite \\ (DigitalGlobe) \\ \end{tabular} & Image interpretation \\ \hline
15 & [PERSON] et al. [28] & 2017 & \begin{tabular}{c} Goma city, the \\ Democratic \\ Republic of the \\ Congo \\ \end{tabular} & \
\begin{tabular}{c} Landsat, \\ Worldview-2, \\ topographic maps \\ \end{tabular} &
\begin{tabular}{c} Image processing and \\ visual interpretation \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline
16 & [PERSON] et al. [39] & 2018 & Jordan & Landsat 8 &
\begin{tabular}{c} Maximum likelihood \\ classification \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline
17 & [PERSON] et al. [31] & 2018 & Arab countries & \
\begin{tabular}{c} VIIRS, Flickr \\ photos \\ \end{tabular} &
\begin{tabular}{c} Temporal trends in \\ monthly time-series \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline
18 & [PERSON] et al. [46] & 2018 & NA & NA & Machine learning \\ \hline
19 & [PERSON] et al. [47] & 2018 & Bangladesh & \
\begin{tabular}{c} Sentinel-2A and \\ Sentinel-2B \\ \end{tabular} &
\begin{tabular}{c} Random forest \\ classification \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline
20 & [PERSON] et al. [82] & 2019 & Rakhine, Myanmar & PlanetScope &
\begin{tabular}{c} Pixel-based value \\ extraction \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline
21 & [PERSON] et al. [57] & 2019 & \
\begin{tabular}{c} World heritage \\ sites \\ \end{tabular} &
\begin{tabular}{c} VIIRS, MODIS, \\ Global Terroirsm \\ Database \\ \end{tabular} & Statistical analysis \\ \hline
22 & [PERSON] et al. [50] & 2020 & Colombia & Landsat & Empirical model \\ \hline
23 & [PERSON] et al. [30] & 2020 & North Jordan & Landsat &
\begin{tabular}{c} Supervised classification \\ and change analysis \\ \end{tabular} \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 1: _Cont._Remote sensing techniques have been instrumental in supporting international treaties, monitoring crises, and predicting natural catastrophes.