UCDP Georeferenced Events: Intelligence Source Guide
UCDP GED records individual incidents of organised violence worldwide from 1989 onward, each geocoded to a point, dated to a...
UCDP GED records individual incidents of organised violence worldwide from 1989 onward, each geocoded to a point, dated to a...
ReliefWeb is OCHA's curated archive of humanitarian reporting: situation reports, assessments, appeals, maps and analysis from thousands of organisations, indexed...
HDX is the UN's open catalogue of humanitarian data: administrative boundaries, population figures, displacement counts, food prices, conflict events and...
A free, keyless API returning sunrise, sunset, solar noon and the three twilight boundaries for any coordinate and date. Small,...
SWPC publishes the operational space weather picture as open JSON and text: solar wind at the L1 point, geomagnetic indices,...
N2YO turns the public satellite catalogue into answers: where an object is right now, when it next passes over a...
CelesTrak and Space-Track are the two public front doors to the US-maintained satellite catalogue: mean orbital elements for tens of...
The Aviation Weather Center serves observations, forecasts, pilot reports, hazard advisories and upper-air winds through a keyless government API. It...
AVWX is a parsing and normalisation layer over official aviation weather: it turns raw METAR and TAF code into structured...
hexdb.io is the free Mode-S lookup service that most community ADS-B receiver installations call in the background: hex to registration,...
adsbdb is a free, keyless API that turns a 24-bit ICAO hex address or a registration into aircraft type, operator...
OpenSky Network is a non-profit, research-governed ADS-B and Mode S receiver network that publishes live aircraft state vectors and, for...
Airframes.io aggregates decoded aircraft datalink messages - ACARS, VDL Mode 2, HFDL and satellite AERO - from a volunteer receiver...
The paste is usually the first time stolen data touches the open internet, and often the only time before it...
A callsign is a licensed identity broadcast in the clear. Few identifiers are simultaneously regulated, globally unique and publicly indexed....
A flight number is a marketing label. The aircraft underneath it is the thing that actually moved, and it keeps...
An event is where every other data point converges: a time, a place, a set of actors, and the messy...
A keyword is a hypothesis about language. Track the wrong string and you will measure nothing at all, very confidently....
You do not audit the code you install. You audit, at best, the top of a dependency tree whose depth...
A repository is an organisational confession: who builds what, on which infrastructure, with which mistakes, timestamped to the minute. Understanding...
An exposed credential is not a curiosity to explore. It is an incident with a clock running, and the only...
A detection signature is intelligence written in executable form. Read as a document, it tells you exactly what its author...
The body of an email is what the sender wanted you to read. The headers are what the infrastructure recorded...
A messaging handle outlives phone numbers, domains and marketplaces. It is the thread that ties an operation together across years...
Property is the asset that cannot be moved offshore overnight. Deeds, charges and valuations leave a permanent, dated, jurisdictional trail....