Cuba: Satellite Monitoring & Event Situation
Track recent event signals and monitor Cuba from space — geolocated events, the most active areas, and satellite imagery in one place. Free to browse on the Delta Watchfloor.
Quick answer — what Off-Nadir Delta is
You can monitor Cuba from space on Off-Nadir Delta — viewing Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 optical imagery, tracking any area over time with anomaly detection, and overlaying geolocated event signals (from global news media) and active fires. In the past 7 days, 16 event signals were recorded in Cuba, most in the infrastructure category.
Signals by category · last 7 days
- Infrastructure12
- Other1
- Kinetic1
- Diplomacy1
- Humanitarian1
Recent developments
- Cuba Power Outages — Cuba
- Telecommunications outage in Havana's Cerro Municipality — Casino Deportivo
- Guiteras Power Plant Failure — Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Plant
- Sinkhole Causes Havoc in Havana's Cerro District — Cerro
- Hazardous Waste Piling Up at Bejucal Clinic — Bejucal
- Massive Accident in Matanzas Injures 22, Including Two Critically — Carbonera
- Educational Crisis in Havana Special Schools — Havana
Most active areas
News found through the GDELT Project, publishers' own feeds and official releases. Figures count the events placed in Cuba and update hourly. For situational awareness only — not for tracking or targeting individuals.
Why Analysts Watch Cuba From Space
Cuba combines hurricane exposure with an electricity grid under strain. Hurricane Melissa made landfall near Chivirico in Santiago de Cuba province on 29 October 2025, and on 4 December 2024 the island’s largest power plant went offline, a blackout that showed as a drop in city lights in VIIRS imagery.
Typical monitoring angles
- Grid failures and recovery read from VIIRS nighttime-light time series over the island’s cities
- Hurricane flood extent along the southern coast of eastern Cuba mapped with Sentinel-1 SAR
- Terrain (DEM) context for the mountainous east, where Melissa weakened over high ground, alongside Sentinel-2 change detection
Sources
Monitor Cuba From Space
Off-Nadir Delta lets you watch Cuba without any GIS software. View Sentinel-1 SAR (all-weather, day or night) and Sentinel-2 optical imagery, draw any area to build a time series with anomaly detection, and overlay active fires.
The Delta Watchfloor adds the event layer: geolocated signals in Cuba, ranked by severity, that you can connect to satellite imagery in one tip-and-cue workflow.
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