Queries NASA FIRMS API (VIIRS + MODIS) for the selected region and time window. No registration required. Updated hourly.
Region
Satellite Source
VIIRS NOAA-20
VIIRS NOAA-21
VIIRS S-NPP
MODIS
Time Window
3 days
Loading: 3 days of detections via NASA FIRMS API.
Confidence Filter
High
Nominal
Low
High-confidence detections are most relevant for conflict analysis. Enable Nominal/Low for full coverage including agricultural burns and sensor noise.
Industrial Filter — Gas Flares & Refineries
Show known oil/gas infrastructure
Oil Fields
Refineries
Gas/LNG
Terminals
108 curated sites from World Bank GGFR, EOG/VIIRS Nightfire, and published research. Thermal detections near these sites are likely industrial — not conflict.
Time Filter ACTIVE
Sync-filters FIRMS + conflict layers
Conflict Events
Conflict & protest events
GDELT — Live
ACLED — Coded
UCDP — Archive
Armed Conflict
Terror/Explosions
Violence
Protests
Military
Live from GDELT Global Knowledge Graph — updates every 15 min. Events extracted from worldwide news coverage, geolocated to mentioned places.
Maritime Boundaries
EEZ & territorial waters
EEZ (200nm)
Territorial Sea (12nm)
Contiguous (24nm)
Opacity
Boundaries from Marine Regions (Flanders Marine Institute). EEZ = Exclusive Economic Zone. Click boundaries on map for details.
Nighttime Lights — VIIRS Day/Night Band
VIIRS Day/Night Band imagery
Current
Compare A/B
75%
NASA VIIRS Day/Night Band (NOAA-20) via GIBS. Daily at-sensor radiance at 500m resolution. Compare dates to identify infrastructure damage from power outages, destroyed facilities, or displaced populations. Max zoom level 8.
Satellite Imagery
MODIS True-Color
70%
NASA GIBS MODIS Terra Corrected Reflectance. Daily true-color composites at 250m. ~1 day latency. Use to visually corroborate thermal detections with optical imagery.
Sentinel-2 Optical
ESA Sentinel-2 L2A via AWS Earth Search STAC. 10m resolution true-color. Queries last 30 days, <20% cloud cover. Click footprints for thumbnail preview and direct link to Copernicus Browser imagery.
Maxar Crisis Imagery
Maxar Open Data Program — high-res crisis imagery (CC-BY-NC 4.0). Event-driven coverage of conflicts and disasters. Click footprints to load COG overlays or view metadata.
▸ Aircraft Tracking — ADS-B
Large
Medium
Rotorcraft
Ground
Other
Live ADS-B aircraft positions from airplanes.live, adsb.lol, and OpenSky Network (fallback chain). Middle East bounding box (12–42°N, 25–65°E). 30-second auto-refresh, no API key required. Not all aircraft broadcast ADS-B.
Basemap
Dark
Satellite
Street
Conflict Briefing
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Click "Load Satellite Data" above to pull near real-time thermal anomaly detections from NASA FIRMS. No registration needed.