tools / nasa-firms
Fire Information for Resource Management System. Near-real-time active fire and thermal anomaly detections from MODIS and VIIRS satellites, with an archive going back years.
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Widely used in conflict monitoring to corroborate reports of shelling, strikes and burning infrastructure. Thermal hotspots at a specific site and time can confirm or refute a claim.
No-code proximity search over OpenStreetMap. Pick features you can see in an image (e.g. a park, a tram stop, a tower) and a distance, and it returns every place where they occur together.
Crowdsourced map of cellular towers and coverage by carrier and technology (2G-5G), including estimated tower locations, sector bearings and frequency bands.
The official Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem viewer. Free access to the full Sentinel archive with visualisation, comparison, timelapse and download tools.
Archive of every published version of Esri's World Imagery basemap since 2014. Compare high-resolution satellite snapshots side by side to see when local changes happened.
AI photo geolocation that predicts where an image was taken from its visual content alone (architecture, vegetation, road features) and returns candidate regions or coordinates.
3D globe with high-resolution satellite imagery, 3D buildings and terrain. The desktop Pro version adds historical imagery, which you need for change-over-time analysis.