Location of the field is south of Snizhne.
See the dutch report:
http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/sites/defaul...alyse_v1.0.pdf
The report doesn't proof that this is the launch site. It is circumstantional evidance. It only shows it is out of the ordinary. It can be used to support other launch data or photo's made from another direction.
There are more reports on burining marks in fields around Eastern Ukraine, but these all concerned Grad rockets or artillery. None of these fields were ploughed after their use to erase the burning marks. The ploughed up area is very suspicious.
The other data showed that the supposed launch site is on high ground and partially shielded by trees.
Conclusions of the report (translated from dutch)
(chapter 2.3)
Using the satelite images and the open sources pictures it was possible to determine the location of the recognition marks. These recognition marks were used to determine a vision line to the base of the smoke trail. The exact location of the launch site can not be determined by this analysis, because the lowest part of the smoke trail is not visible. However, the vision line crosses a field (out of the ordinary) that is suspected to be launch location of the BUK missile.
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(chapter 3.3)
Based on recent and historical satelite images it can be concluded that the shape and colour of the suspected field deviates from earlier years and surrounding fields. landsat images from 2003-2014 and google images from 2010 - 2014 show a stable field that never before has shown this shape.
When we take a look on the image of july 21st 2014, we see that the grain in surrounding fields is being harvested. The investigated field shows no traces of a normal harvest, most likely it has been ploughed. Only in the bottom area a few traces of straw an be seen. Satelite pictures hardly show any vegitation. Black stains are visible in the northwest corner and these are probably burn marks.
It is noteworthy that a wall of earth was erected around the field. This could have been made to contain the fire in the patch and prevent the burning of the weat in the rest of the field.
Based on the vision line analysis and the burning mark analysis we conclude that it is possible that the smoke trail stemmed from this field.
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I guess it is very interesting to talk to the farmer who owns the field. He might have helped the Buk crew by setting up a perimeter.