Advances of Forensic Remote Sensing Applications in the Face of Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism

Advances of Forensic Remote Sensing Applications in the Face of Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism

Elhoucine Essefi
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8386-9.ch004
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Abstract

This chapter aims to investigate advance and relevance of remote sensing in detecting the increasing transnational terrorist and crimes acts. This work should take into the widest definition of transnational crimes and terrorist activities and the link between. Geopolitics has created a favor climate for the setting of transnational crimes and terrorism at the Tunisian-Libyan borders. A possible future scenario is the fall of a military base with high technology arms in the hand of terrorist groups. Remote would be relevant by monitoring of terrorist mobility and their number evolution, arms quality and quantity within the base and the region, linked illegal activities funding terrorist groups (human trafficking from Africa to Europe, arms trade towards Mali, and smuggling).
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2. Limitations Of Forensic Remote Sensing

Three limitations concerning transnational organized crimes and terrorism investigations are discussed. Forensic remote sensing images are carried out by overflying helicopters (Han et al., 2020; Legleiter and Kinzel, 2020), aircraft or satellites can only detect crimes or crime’s impacts that are visible from above and for sustained periods of time. Second, remote sensing may not record the economic, social, political and historical context of the crime scene in which the actions had taken place The continued and increasing use of remote sensing for these purposes brings us to the third limitation that we will mention here: the issue of validation (Lee and de Vries, 2021).

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