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Area & Event Monitoring

85 tools for Area & Event Monitoring, covering Live Monitoring, CCTV Cameras, Alerting & Triggers, Area Assessment Tools, and 3 more.

Alerting & Triggers

Disaster Alert

disasteralert.pdc.org

Interactive world map of active natural hazards (storms, quakes, floods, fires) with severity ratings and alerts

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Free RSS Reader

feedreader.com

Web-based RSS feed reader for subscribing to and reading site updates in one place

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Google Alerts

google.com.au

Emails a notification whenever new web content matching a saved keyword search appears

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Area Assessment Tools

World Data Atlas section aggregating homicide, burglary, assault and other crime indicators by country from 200+ public sources

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UN Office on Drugs and Crime data portal with statistics on drug production, trafficking and usage by country

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Global Newspaper Map

newspapermap.com

World map of newspapers and news sites plotted by location, with direct links to each outlet

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Homepage - Media Landscapes

medialandscapes.org

Country-by-country media ownership and regulation profiles for European countries and their neighbouring states

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Country-by-country investigative profiles of organized crime and drug trafficking across Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America

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Live map plotting reported military and significant events specifically in the Russia-Ukraine war

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Stanford project profiling militant organizations and mapping their alliances and rivalries over time, with 133 group profiles

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OpenHistoricalMap

openhistoricalmap.org

Wiki-style map of historical boundaries, places and infrastructure browsable by date, built on OpenStreetMap data

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Market research portal with statistics and reports on social media usage and other industries by country

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Browsable dataset of organized violence events (state-based, non-state and one-sided) with location and fatality data

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Tracks reported funding and financial contributions to UN-coordinated humanitarian appeals and response plans worldwide.

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Crowdsourced database of Wi-Fi networks, cell towers and Bluetooth devices mapped by location.

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CCTV / Surveillance Mapping

DeFlock

deflock.me

Crowdsourced open map of Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) camera locations, including Flock Safety devices, across the USA.

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CCTV Cameras

Global Airport Webcams

airportwebcams.net

Directory of live airport webcams organized by country

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Webcam Map

worldcam.eu

Map of live public webcam streams browsable by country and region

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Windy: Webcams

windy.com

Map of live public weather and landscape webcams layered on Windy's weather map

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Live Monitoring

Active Fire Data | Earthdata

earthdata.nasa.gov

Near-real-time satellite map of active wildfire detections from NASA's FIRMS/MODIS and VIIRS sensors

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Netherlands-based archive of ADS-B flight tracking records and receiver coverage

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AirNav Radar

radarbox24.com

Live map of aircraft positions and airport status pulled from ADS-B receiver data

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Global Fishing Watch

globalfishingwatch.org

Interactive map tracking commercial fishing vessel activity worldwide from AIS and satellite data

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Global Railway Map Reference

openrailwaymap.org

Crowdsourced OpenStreetMap-based map of rail lines, stations and signalling worldwide

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Instagram's login/search screen, used manually with location or hashtag search and page refresh to watch new posts

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Live Feeds Status

livingatlas.arcgis.com

Status dashboard showing whether Esri Living Atlas's live data feeds (weather, traffic, disasters) are currently updating

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Maritime Database

maritime-database.com

Directory of ports, shipping companies and maritime contacts searchable by country

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Mini Tokyo 3D

minitokyo3d.com

3D real-time map of Tokyo-area train and bus positions running on their scheduled routes

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OneMillionTweetMap (Twitter)

onemilliontweetmap.com

Live world map plotting geotagged tweets in real time, filterable by hashtag and time range

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Railroad Maps

www-personal.umich.edu

Personal archive of scanned historical railroad maps organized by region

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Generates ready-made geolocated social media search links (Twitter, Instagram, Flickr) for a chosen point on a map

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Strava segments

doogal.co.uk

Looks up Strava exercise segments and heatmap activity for a chosen location

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Ship registry lookup showing a vessel's ownership, class, flag and identification history

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Youtube Geo Search Tool

youtube.github.io

Searches YouTube videos uploaded from within a chosen map area and time window

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YouTube Geofind

mattw.io

Maps the upload location of a YouTube video from its metadata, when available

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Pulls metadata for a single YouTube video, channel, playlist or uploader from its ID or URL

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Multi-Domain Fusion

Velocity

github.com

Self-hosted console fusing live ADS-B aircraft, AIS ships, satellites, quakes, GPS jamming and conflict events onto one 3D globe with unlimited local history.

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Transport Tracking

ADS-B Exchange

globe.adsbexchange.com

Crowdsourced, unfiltered ADS-B flight-tracking map that, unlike most trackers, does not hide aircraft on government block-request lists.

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ADSB.fi

globe.adsb.fi

Free, volunteer-run global ADS-B flight tracker and public API positioned as an open alternative to commercial trackers.

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FleetMon

fleetmon.com

AIS ship-tracking and maritime database offering vessel profiles, port-call history, and fleet-monitoring tools.

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Flightradar24

flightradar24.com

Live flight-tracking map built from ADS-B/MLAT feeds, searchable by flight number, aircraft registration, or airport.

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OpenSky Network

opensky-network.org

Non-profit ADS-B sensor network providing live and historical air-traffic data for research, with a public API and web map.

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planespotters.net

planespotters.net

Database of aircraft photos and registration histories, searchable by tail number to identify an aircraft's operator and past liveries.

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VesselFinder

vesselfinder.com

AIS-based live ship-tracking map searchable by vessel name, IMO/MMSI number, or port.

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