A community-fed ADS-B aggregator that publishes what its receivers hear without honouring operators' block requests, so military and government aircraft that broadcast appear.
Strengths
- Unfiltered; the standard for military air OSINT.
- Playback of past tracks; global coverage where receivers exist.
Limitations
- Only aircraft that broadcast and are received; many military flights do not broadcast.
- Sparse over oceans and much of Africa and Asia.
Ideal forWatching military air activity around a developing situation.
A community ADS-B aggregator with an open API, including a military endpoint. WarWatch's tracking layer draws from it.
Strengths
- Open API without a key.
- Military aircraft endpoint.
Limitations
- Same physical limits as every ADS-B source.
- Smaller network than the largest commercial trackers.
Ideal forDevelopers and tools that need a public military feed.
AIS ship tracking with vessel identity, destination and history, from terrestrial and satellite receivers.
Strengths
- Broad commercial coverage.
- Identity, destination and port calls per vessel.
Limitations
- AIS can be off or spoofed; warships and sanctioned traffic often absent or misreported.
- Satellite coverage and history are paid.
Ideal forFollowing named commercial vessels and port activity.
Free Copernicus Sentinel imagery — optical every few days, radar through cloud — for comparing a site before and after a reported event.
Strengths
- Free and global with regular revisit.
- Radar works at night and through cloud.
Limitations
- About ten-metre resolution: structures and large vehicles, not detail.
- Takes practice to interpret.
Ideal forDamage assessment and change at a known site.
Near-real-time satellite fire detections from MODIS and VIIRS on a map, with downloads.
Strengths
- Free, global, updated several times a day.
- Independent of any reporting: a physical signal.
Limitations
- Heat is not cause — burning fields, industry and wildfire look alike.
- Cloud hides detections; small, brief fires are missed.
Ideal forCorroborating a reported strike within hours.
A community that geolocates conflict footage and publishes the result with coordinates and reasoning; its public feed is one of WarWatch's inputs.
Strengths
- Coordinates and working shown per item.
- Volunteer-verified rather than raw reposting.
Limitations
- Covers what volunteers pick up; not a census.
- Verification takes time; not instant.
Ideal forConfirming where a widely shared clip was actually filmed.
Verified footage / methodology An investigative OSINT publisher whose work and published methods set much of the practice for geolocation and verification.
Strengths
- Rigorous, documented investigations.
- Guides and tools for the methods themselves.
Limitations
- Investigations, not a live feed; slower by design.
- Selective coverage.
Ideal forLearning the method and for authoritative verification of major incidents.
Photographically documented equipment losses per conflict, counted only where an image exists.
Strengths
- Every entry has visual evidence.
- A consistent, conservative count.
Limitations
- A floor, not a total: losses without a photograph are not counted.
- Lag between event and entry.
Ideal forEquipment-loss baselines that can be cited.
Reads 45 news and OSINT sources — including verified Telegram channels, geolocated incident feeds, GeoConfirmed, Bellingcat and Oryx — classifies each item, maps high-severity reports as timed alerts, scores every country on its conflict reporting, and adds sourced dossiers, alerts, strait monitors and a premium ADS-B tracking layer.
Strengths
- One index over many OSINT and news feeds with the source link kept.
- Country ranking, trend, dossier and alert rules around the map.
- AIS-based corridor monitoring and ADS-B military layer in one place.
Limitations
- Does not geolocate or verify footage; classification is automated.
- Only high-severity reports become map alerts.
- Severity is reporting volume, not intensity.
Ideal forAnalysts and journalists who want the OSINT stream indexed, mapped and contextualised.
A live map of reported events from public reporting and social media, organised by regional maps, each marker with a headline and link.
Strengths
- Dense event coverage on a theatre.
- Long history on each map.
Limitations
- Context beyond the headline is not a stated feature.
- Sourcing and cadence not restated here — check the product.
Ideal forFollowing one theatre at the event level.