Off-Nadir Delta is a real-time event and geospatial intelligence platform that decides what is worth observing. Disasters, conflict, environmental change, and infrastructure failures unfold worldwide every day, but the signals are scattered across news, open data, and satellite imagery — and reading them takes expertise and time. Off-Nadir Delta combines an AI analyst, maps, satellite data, and open sources to explore, visualize, and prioritize geographic events, and to answer the questions that precede any imagery spend: can a satellite settle this, is free Sentinel-class data enough or does it need commercial tasking, and when can the place next be imaged. Factual claims link to their sources, judgments are labelled as judgments rather than facts, and each brief reports its own citation coverage — naming any claim that lacks a source — instead of producing an assessment anyway. There are three ways to look, distinguished by scope: Delta Watchfloor (everywhere, today — today's prioritized picture of global risk, so you know where to look now), Delta Map (one place, right now — verify an event from space with Sentinel-1 C-band SAR, NISAR L-band SAR, Sentinel-2 optical, VIIRS nighttime lights, and NASA FIRMS active fires, no GIS software required), and Delta Monitor (one place, over time — fix an area, pick what to count such as ships alongside a berth, burned area or water extent, and every new Sentinel-1 or Sentinel-2 acquisition over it is measured automatically, with unusual readings flagged against the history). And two ways to be told: Delta Agent (an AI analyst that explains what happened and why it matters, and recommends which satellite sensor and area to image next) and Delta Reports (a written daily assessment with Key Judgments, calibrated confidence, and an outlook). Built for OSINT, geopolitical-risk, and satellite-intelligence analysts, and for developers integrating live signals and briefs through the API and MCP. Also applicable to emergency management, media, enterprise-risk, and research workflows. No intelligence background required. Free tier available. Created by Kazushi Motomura (Off-Nadir Lab), an independent personal project.
The same world, at three different scopes. Pick the one that matches your question.
Everywhere, today
Live geolocated events — disasters, conflict, security, infrastructure — ranked, continuously refreshed, and diffed against your last visit.
One place, right now
Sentinel-1 SAR, Sentinel-2 optical and VIIRS nighttime lights on one map, with change detection and vessel detection.
One place, over time
Pick a place and what to count — ships, burned area, water extent — and every new Sentinel-1 or Sentinel-2 pass measures it, flagged against its own history.
When you would rather be handed the answer than go find it.
Ask a question
Ask in plain language and get a sourced, geolocated brief: what happened, why it matters, and which satellite sensor to task next.
Read the assessment
A daily report on world events — Key Judgments with calibrated confidence, an outlook, and collection priorities. Archived by date and by country.
Everything above, from your own code or your own AI agent.
Create a free account to explore your own locations and see how satellite imagery can support your work.
Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery that works day and night, through clouds and smoke. Ideal for flood mapping, disaster response, and all-weather monitoring.
Multispectral optical imagery with 13 spectral bands. Perfect for vegetation analysis, land cover mapping, and environmental monitoring.
Day-Night Band (DNB) imagery showing nighttime artificial lights from space. Ideal for urban analysis, economic activity monitoring, and disaster impact assessment.
Near real-time active fire hotspot data from NASA FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System).
Map Visualization
Data Discovery
Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF
Web Framework
Built with modern geospatial standards: SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) for data discovery and Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) for efficient streaming of satellite imagery.
Off-Nadir Delta provides access to satellite data from trusted, authoritative sources:
European Space Agency's Earth observation programme providing free and open Sentinel satellite data.
Amazon Web Services hosting of Sentinel-2 data for fast, reliable access.
Sentinel-1 RTC data processed and hosted by Microsoft for radiometrically corrected SAR imagery.
NASA Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) and Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) for active fire hotspot and nighttime lights data.
All Sentinel data is freely available under the Copernicus open data policy. NASA data (VIIRS, FIRMS) is provided under NASA's open data policy for non-commercial and commercial use.
Off-Nadir Delta provides access to publicly available satellite imagery on a best-effort basis. The platform streams data directly from authoritative sources (ESA Copernicus, NASA, AWS, Microsoft Planetary Computer) and does not modify or reprocess the original data.
Limitations to be aware of:
For critical applications (disaster response, legal evidence, regulatory compliance), always verify satellite observations with authoritative ground-truth sources. See our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for full details.