Monitoring the Syrian Humanitarian Crisis with the JRC’s Global Human Settlement Layer and Night-Time Satellite Data

.............................................................................................................. 3 1. Insights to the humanitarian aspects of the Syrian Crisis ..................................... 4 2. Integrating GHSL derived population data with night-light satellite imagery ........... 5 2.1 Study data ................................................................................................ 5 2.1.1 Night-light satellite images .................................................................... 5 2.1.2 Population data (GHS-POP) .................................................................... 6 2.2 Analysis of night-lights................................................................................ 6 3. Results .......................................................................................................... 7 4. Towards a humanitarian crisis now-casting system ........................................... 12 5. References ................................................................................................... 13 List of figures ...................................................................................................... 14