Author profile: William Goodhind

William Goodhind is an investigator and researcher with Contested Ground, an open-access research project that conducts satellite imagery analysis on war and armed conflict. His analysis and expert commentary has been featured in current affairs and investigative reporting by Euronews, EU Observer, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. In 2024, he contributed to a series of Pulitzer Prize finalist articles by the Washington Post’s visual forensics team on the situation in Gaza. William previously worked with the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine as a Monitoring Officer, patrol leader and imagery analyst between 2015-17 and 2020-22.

What I Learned from Geolocating 1,000 Satellite Images

William Goodhind • Jul 16 2025 • Articles

Given satellite imagery’s primary role as a visual commodity, its use in popular media is often bereft of details helpful to the would-be researcher.

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