Dataharvest 2024 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

With the recently signed Migration Pact in the EU forcing people to take more deadly routes to Europe, and deadly enforcement policies affecting migration pathways to the United States, in the year ahead it is almost inevitable that we will have more mass migration casualty events in the year ahead. The ability to investigate deadly shipwrecks is therefore more necessary than ever.
This will highlight the importance of digital forensic methodologies in investigations related to shipwrecks with an emphasis on:
-Signal data (ADSB, AIS, Inmarsat, etc.)
-Remote sensing (optical and SAR imagery)
-Open-source approaches (social media scraping, visual evidence collection)
In the presentation, we will also delve into acquisition and application of these methods in the context of a shipwreck investigation. We will also discuss the mapping and visualisation workflows which are important for analysis and publication, and specifically, we will discuss:
-The use of mapping software for cartography and analysis
-3D reconstruction and analysis
- Motion graphic visualization
Finally, we will discuss the importance of mixed methodologies in this approach, specifically highlighting the need for person-to-person source work and interviews.