Every layer
46 live map layers in one app: aircraft, GPS jamming, fires, earthquakes, weather, oceans, satellite imagery and the ground itself. What each shows and where its data comes from.
live · things that move
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Aircraft
Live aircraft positions over the view, each one dead-reckoned between updates and coloured by altitude. -
Earthquakes
Every earthquake of magnitude 2.5 or more recorded worldwide in the last 30 days. -
Cheap flights
The lowest fare Piratefly.com is watching to each destination, written as a price on the map. -
Active fires
Every active fire detected from orbit in the last 24 hours. -
Lightning
Every lightning strike on Earth in the last half hour, as the community network hears it, each ~11 km cell marked dry or wet from the latest weather radar frame. -
Natural events
Natural events currently open in NASA's curated index: wildfires, volcanoes, severe storms, sea and lake ice and more. -
The station
Where the International Space Station is now, where it is heading, and the area of Earth that can see it. -
Airport weather
Measured weather at airports, from the METAR reports their instruments send.
air · measured from aircraft
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GPS interference Pro
Where GPS is being jammed or spoofed, measured by the aircraft flying through the area. -
Winds aloft Pro
Wind at cruising altitude as measured on board by aircraft in flight. -
Turbulence & icing Pro
Clear-air turbulence at cruise and airframe icing lower down, from the NOAA GFS model. -
SIGMET & AIRMET Pro
The aviation weather warnings in force right now, as polygons: every SIGMET issued in the world (thunderstorms, severe turbulence, severe icing, mountain waves, volcanic ash, tropical cyclones) and, over the United States, the G-AIRMET forecast of moderate turbulence, icing, low ceilings and obscured mountains. -
PIREP Pro
Turbulence and icing as pilots reported them from the cockpit in the last three hours, worldwide: each report where it was felt, with flight level, aircraft type, intensity and the original PIREP or AIREP text.
weather · the model over the view
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Wind
Surface wind as a streaming particle field, so fronts, convergence lines and storms show up as shapes. -
Temperature
Air temperature 2 m above the ground, drawn as a continuous field over the view. -
Rain radar
Weather radar for the last two hours, played as a loop. -
Pressure
Mean sea-level air pressure as a field, which shows where the highs and lows are. -
Humidity
Relative humidity 2 m above the ground as a field. -
Air quality
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) as a continuous field rather than a dot per monitoring station. -
Ultraviolet
The ultraviolet index now, the measure that sunburn follows (temperature does not). -
Solar power
Shortwave solar radiation reaching the ground now, which is what a photovoltaic panel converts. -
Sea state
Significant wave height over the seas and oceans. -
River flow
Is this river running unusually high or low for today's date, against its own record? GloFAS gives every river on Earth a daily discharge, but a number in cubic metres says nothing on its own: a river's normal June is not its normal December.
earth · one frame a day from orbit
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From orbit
The whole planet as photographed by satellite on a single day: a daily corrected-reflectance mosaic, not a drawn basemap. -
Sea surface
Sea surface temperature for any day in the archive, back to 2002. -
Sea ice
Where the ocean is frozen, as a daily ice / no-ice mask. -
Ocean life
Chlorophyll-a in the surface ocean, the pigment of phytoplankton, which shows where marine life is concentrated. -
Dust & smoke
Aerosol optical depth: how much dust, smoke and haze is in the whole air column, measured from orbit. -
Vegetation
How much living vegetation is on the ground, from satellite vegetation indices. -
Ground heat
The temperature of the ground surface itself as an infrared radiometer measures it, which can differ from the air temperature by 20 °C or more. -
Snow cover
Where there is snow on the ground, mapped with the snow index (NDSI) that tells snow apart from cloud. -
Cloud tops
The temperature at the top of clouds, which stands in for their height: the colder the top, the taller the cloud.
ground · the planet itself
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Terrain
Turns the map into a relief model using a height for every pixel. -
Tectonics
The boundaries of the tectonic plates, coloured by what each boundary does: plates going under one another, pulling apart, or sliding past. -
The wires
The submarine fibre-optic cables that carry almost all intercontinental internet traffic. -
What is here
Wikipedia articles about the places in the current view: battles, buildings, wrecks, volcanoes. -
Glacial lake floods
Every glacier basin in the world with a lake that can burst, and how bad the flood below it would be. -
Permafrost thaw
Every road and pipeline on Arctic permafrost, coloured by how fast the ground under it is warming.
industry · what we build and burn
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Factories
Every large industrial plant in two public registers, each set against its peers. -
Methane leaks
Every methane source that satellites and survey aircraft have caught venting, worldwide: 11,000-plus sites in the Carbon Mapper catalogue, from Permian oil wells to Turkmen pipelines, Chinese coal mines and city landfills.
life · what lives on it
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Bird flu
Every bird-flu outbreak that a national veterinary service has notified to WOAH, the world animal health organisation: poultry farms and wild-bird finds, H5N1 and its cousins, on every continent, newest first. -
Lake algae
Is this lake growing a toxic algal bloom? Sentinel-2 reads the red-edge colour cyanobacteria give water, on every lake on Earth every few days. -
Wildlife near roads
When is a wild animal population actually next to traffic? Movebank publishes the raw GPS collars of tracked wildlife; OpenStreetMap publishes the roads.
Day & night
Aurora
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