Since 2005, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has been exploring the use of Geospatial Technologies in a Human Rights Context. These efforts began under the auspices of the Science and Human Rights Program, and focused primarily on establishing whether and to what extent satellite imagery could be used to document human rights violations resulting from armed conflict. In partnership with Amnesty International, the project's first applications of this technology involved using visible and near-infrared satellite imagery to investigate reports of villages being burned in Darfur, Sudan. These efforts established the usefulness of satellite imagery as a tool that allowed investigators access areas that would otherwise be completely off-limits due to governmental restrictions, security considerations, remoteness, or some combination of all three. They likewise established a model of collaboration that has proven itself time and again in the application of these new tools to human rights responses.