Use Cases

By pairing a live event feed with satellite follow-up. The Watchfloor plots geolocated security and geopolitical events, distilled from global news media, on a daily world dashboard; Delta Agent turns any question into a sourced, geolocated brief; and the Daily Report delivers Key Judgments with calibrated confidence — so a headline becomes a checkable location you can collect fresh imagery over.

Sentinel-1 radar images the ocean day and night, through cloud — so ports, chokepoints, and anchorages can be watched on every pass. Off-Nadir Delta runs SAR ship detection on any scene to reveal vessels, including ones that are not broadcasting AIS, and continuous monitoring flags unusual activity in an area of interest.

Radar first, optical second. Sentinel-1 SAR sees through cloud and smoke, so flood extent can be mapped while the storm is still overhead; NASA FIRMS detects active fires at 375 m resolution, updated several times a day; and before/after difference analysis turns two acquisitions into a damage map for responders and insurers.

Sentinel-2 has imaged the world's land surface at 10 m resolution roughly every five days since 2015 — free and open. That archive makes deforestation, coastal change, and water stress measurable: compute vegetation and water indices such as NDVI and NDWI, compare any two dates with difference analysis, and set up continuous monitoring that alerts you when an area departs from its normal pattern.

Sentinel-2's 10 m resolution resolves individual fields, and its roughly 5-day revisit builds a season-long time series. Vegetation indices like NDVI make crop vigor measurable from space, so stress, irrigation problems, and slow emergence show up before they are obvious on the ground — without driving to every field.

By comparing acquisitions across years. Multi-date Sentinel-2 imagery documents expansion, new construction, and green-space loss objectively; difference analysis highlights exactly which pixels changed; and VIIRS nighttime lights add an activity dimension — where electrification and economic activity are growing after dark.

NASA's Black Marble product turns VIIRS Day-Night Band observations into a daily, cloud-corrected picture of the Earth at night. Lighting is a strong proxy for human activity: analysts use it to spot power outages after storms or strikes, track electrification, and watch economic activity where ground data is scarce.

Yes — everything runs in the browser, with a free tier and nothing to install. Search and visualize Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and VIIRS scenes; open your own GeoTIFFs in a client-side viewer that never uploads your file; and lean on the guide and glossary to learn remote-sensing concepts as you go.

Yes. The Event Intelligence API exposes event signals, the daily brief, and analyst endpoints over REST with OpenAPI documentation, and the MCP server gives AI agents the same capabilities as tools — so an agent can ask what is happening in the world, request an assessment, and cite the sources.