What PANOPT reads, and on what terms · panopt.online
The sources behind the Situation Monitor's instruments, layers and market figures, the weekly flows brief and the calendar: who provides each, the licence and a link to it, the citation the provider asks for, the credit line PANOPT's own code carries, what PANOPT does to the data, and whether permission is in hand. How each instrument works is on the method page.
Permission status is one of these: Open licence, Public domain, Reuse with credit, Under the provider's terms, No published licence, PANOPT's own. No published licence means the provider publishes no terms that cover this use; it is stated here rather than left out.
We acknowledge the use of data and/or imagery from NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) (https://earthdata.nasa.gov/firms), part of NASA's Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for Earth observations (LANCE) (https://earthdata.nasa.gov/lance) and NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
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Fire detections from NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS, https://earthdata.nasa.gov/firms), part of NASA's LANCE and Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS); VIIRS 375 m active fire product
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NASA FIRMS
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Fire detections from NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), MODIS Collection 6.1 near-real-time active fire product (Terra and Aqua)
What PANOPT changes
Sums fire radiative power inside each watched site and compares it with the site's own recent median and range; bins night detections to a quarter-degree grid against each cell's own median; reads each MODIS pass (Terra and Aqua) over a watched plant against the plant's own MODIS normal.
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The short credit, NASA FIRMS, is used where the full sentence does not fit, such as a share card.
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [year of the data]
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (Sentinel-2 L2A via Element 84 Earth Search and Microsoft Planetary Computer)
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (Sentinel-2 L2A via Element 84 Earth Search; hot pixels measured by PANOPT)
What PANOPT changes
Picks the newest scene that is clear over each site and crops a photograph of it; counts ships on clear water in five sea boxes, and aircraft-sized changes on airbase aprons against each base's usual picture. At each watched plant, reads four 20 m bands of every pass onto a fixed grid of its own and counts hot short-wave-infrared pixels inside the plant, against its usual count and outside its usual flares (a new fire backs a report naming the plant, as one look, and the Strike Ledger prints its pixels where it alone saw the fire).
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [year of the data; a range for a multi-year set, such as 2015–2026]; for passes from the 2015–2025 archive also: Sentinel-1 RTC by Catalyst, CC BY 4.0, via Microsoft Planetary Computer
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (RTC by Catalyst, CC BY 4.0, via Microsoft Planetary Computer; and processed through the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem)
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (Sentinel-1 GRD, processed through the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem)
What PANOPT changes
Counts vessel-sized radar returns in watched boxes, removes fixed structures and long-anchored hulls, compares each count with the box's own median, builds a two-week density grid, and pairs hulls with AIS positions where AIS is heard; the Chokepoint Ledger turns the Hormuz counts into an estimate of crossings. For PANOPT's staff only, it also compares a struck plant's radar return before and after a claimed strike; that research check is not published.
Data source: EUMETSAT LSA SAF, MSG-IODC FRP-Pixel. Contains modified EUMETSAT Meteosat product [year of publication]. CC BY 4.0
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Data source: EUMETSAT LSA SAF, MSG-IODC FRP-Pixel. Contains modified EUMETSAT Meteosat product 2026. CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
What PANOPT changes
Matches every 15-minute fire pixel to the watched sites and pipeline corridors on the satellite's own grid, sums the fire radiative power per site, lists the sites its water mask cannot see, and calls a new fire when a site quiet for a day lights up at 50 MW or more in two of three slots. A single slot of 100 MW or more, three times the plant's normal, backs a report or a claim naming the plant, never an alert of its own.
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A demonstration product: EUMETSAT does not guarantee its continuity.
Data source: EUMETSAT LSA SAF, MTG FRP-Pixel (LSA-509). Contains modified EUMETSAT Meteosat-12 product [year of publication]. CC BY 4.0
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Data source: EUMETSAT LSA SAF, MTG FRP-Pixel (LSA-509). Contains modified EUMETSAT Meteosat-12 product 2026. CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
What PANOPT changes
Matches every 10-minute fire pixel to the watched sites by its own position, sums the fire radiative power per site, lists the sites its mask cannot see, and calls a new fire when a site below its threshold for six hours lights up for three looks at 20 MW or three times its usual heat, whichever is larger. A single look of 100 MW or more, three times the plant's normal, backs a report or a claim naming the plant, never an alert of its own. At the watched oil fields it keeps each field's night hours lit and dark, and when a steady flare goes dark reads the product's quality map for those looks to see whether the sky over the flares was clear.
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A demonstration product under validation: EUMETSAT does not guarantee its continuity.
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [year of the data]
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (Sentinel-3 SLSTR fire radiative power, processed by EUMETSAT, via the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem)
What PANOPT changes
Reads each pass's 1 km fire list over the watched plants, sums the fire radiative power per plant, and calls a large new fire at three times the plant's own Sentinel-3 normal; it alerts only where Meteosat cannot see.
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [year of the data]
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (Sentinel-5P TROPOMI SO2, via the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem)
What PANOPT changes
Reads the day's sulphur dioxide column within 25 km of each watched plant and lists a plume at twice the plant's own normal; a plume is shown beside reports, never counted as corroboration.
Places each watched plant's circle on its mapped outline, or a terminal's on its storage tanks, then checks the circle against the flares FIRMS sees there on ordinary days; the check runs every week. Only each centre point is kept. A place a report names, such as a plant not yet watched or a ship's reported position, is found with OpenStreetMap's Nominatim search. A gazetteer of the oil and gas sites PANOPT does not watch is extracted from OpenStreetMap with the Overpass API, tile by tile over the theatres and the regions the heat watch reads: elements tagged as refineries, oil or gas works, terminals, depots, pumping and compressor stations or offshore platforms, or named as such in the theatres' languages; tanks tagged as holding oil or fuel, three or more within 250 m of each other, grouped into tank farms; wells, filling stations, gas distribution posts, power plants, food, feed and water works (a works tagged as making oil counts only beside a petroleum word) and ruins left out. Each site keeps its English or Latin name (else its Cyrillic name transliterated), its original name, its kind, its outline's bounds, its operator and its nearest town. It names the nearest such site in a night-fire alert that no watched plant is near, marked as not watched, and places a plant a report names, by a whole word of the site's name or by its town, before a Nominatim search. The radar boxes of the oil terminals added on 16 Oct 2026 are drawn round their ports' mapped outlines, read with Nominatim; only each box's four edges are kept.
Global Energy Monitor, Global Oil Infrastructure Tracker, June 2026 release.
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Pipeline routes: Global Oil Infrastructure Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, June 2026 release (globalenergymonitor.org), CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Joined and simplified to 300 m by PANOPT.
What PANOPT changes
Takes the surveyed routes of the seven watched pipelines (Petroline, CPC, BTC, ADCOP, Goreh–Jask, SUMED and Kirkuk–Ceyhan), joins pieces that meet, and simplifies each to 300 m. They draw the lines on the map, bound the heat corridors, and, where GEM grades the route high or very high, measure how far a town is from a line.
AIS positions from aisstream.io (no published licence)
What PANOPT changes
Matches designated tankers by IMO number and records identity changes and silences; projects vessel positions to the moment of each radar pass to pair them with hulls.
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Coverage is near zero in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea; those boxes read AIS-blind.
Contains information from adsb.lol, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0): https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/
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Contains information from adsb.lol, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0): https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/
What PANOPT changes
Classifies military aircraft by type into roles, keeps three-hour tracks, detects aircraft holding on station, and computes the share of aircraft reporting degraded navigation integrity near each sample point, set against that point's usual share for the same hour; a jump far above it is a GPS interference reading (over the Levant and Cyprus only once it lasts two hours in a row).
Title of the map module, a link to it and its history, and the licence.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia's conflict map modules, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia, Module:Russo-Ukrainian war overview map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Russo-Ukrainian_war_overview_map; history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Russo-Ukrainian_war_overview_map?action=history), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia, Module:South Lebanon detailed map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:South_Lebanon_detailed_map; history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:South_Lebanon_detailed_map?action=history), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia, Module:Yemeni Civil War detailed map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Yemeni_Civil_War_detailed_map; history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Yemeni_Civil_War_detailed_map?action=history), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia, Module:Syrian Civil War detailed map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Syrian_Civil_War_detailed_map; history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Syrian_Civil_War_detailed_map?action=history), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia, Module:2023 Sudanese Clashes detailed map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:2023_Sudanese_Clashes_detailed_map; history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:2023_Sudanese_Clashes_detailed_map?action=history), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia, Module:Israeli-Palestinian conflict detailed map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Israeli-Palestinian_conflict_detailed_map; history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Israeli-Palestinian_conflict_detailed_map?action=history), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia, Module:Myanmar Civil War detailed map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Myanmar_Civil_War_detailed_map; history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Myanmar_Civil_War_detailed_map?action=history), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia, Module:Somali Civil War detailed map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Somali_Civil_War_detailed_map; history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Somali_Civil_War_detailed_map?action=history), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia, Module:Mali War detailed map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Mali_War_detailed_map; history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Mali_War_detailed_map?action=history), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia, Module:Iraqi insurgency detailed map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Iraqi_insurgency_detailed_map; history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Iraqi_insurgency_detailed_map?action=history), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia, Module:Libyan Civil War detailed map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Libyan_Civil_War_detailed_map; history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Libyan_Civil_War_detailed_map?action=history), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia, Module:Ethiopian wars and insurgencies detailed map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Ethiopian_wars_and_insurgencies_detailed_map; history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Ethiopian_wars_and_insurgencies_detailed_map?action=history), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Town-control layer adapted by PANOPT from Wikipedia, Module:Nigerian insurgency detailed map (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Nigerian_insurgency_detailed_map; history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Nigerian_insurgency_detailed_map?action=history), by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes: dots redrawn as discs and contact bands. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
What PANOPT changes
Reads each module's dots and legend; redraws the dots as discs and a contact band where colours meet; records a colour change since the last read as a finding. This adapted layer is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Contains data from The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/).
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Contains data from The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/).
What PANOPT changes
Counts reports of fighting, assault and unconventional violence per half-degree cell against the cell's own weekly rate; drops country- and state-level reports.
Hegre, Håvard, Mihai Croicu, Kristine Eck, and Stina Högbladh (2020) Introducing the UCDP Candidate Events Dataset. Research & Politics.
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Conflict events: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset (Uppsala Conflict Data Program), CC BY 4.0; Hegre, Croicu, Eck and Högbladh (2020), Research & Politics. Changes: mapped and aggregated by PANOPT.
What PANOPT changes
Maps events placed to district level or better; spreads period tallies over the days they cover; compares each theatre's month with its three-month average.
An automatic GDACS impact estimate, not an official warning. Earthquake, tsunami and cyclone alerts are not reviewed by experts and do not replace official warnings from national authorities.
What PANOPT changes
Keeps Orange and Red alerts and upgrades inside the watched theatres; each is shown as GDACS's automatic estimate, never as an official warning.
Credit given, with NGA's disclaimer on any product that names NGA.
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Navigational warnings: US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Maritime Safety Information (msi.nga.mil)
Disclaimer
This reproduction, partial or complete, of any National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) or Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) product, information or data is not approved, authorized or endorsed by the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director, NGA or any other element of the US Government. The US Government and NGA accept no liability for the accuracy or quality of this reproduction or the use of any NGA, NIMA or DMA products, information or data.
What PANOPT changes
Classifies in-force warnings by their text (mines, weapons firing, security, GNSS interference, military operations).
EASA: the source acknowledged, as Source: European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). FAA: none required; credit given.
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Source: European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Conflict Zone Information Bulletins. Source: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Prohibitions, Restrictions and Notices
What PANOPT changes
Records new bulletins and revisions per watched country; the FAA list's first read is a silent baseline.
UK FCDO: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; European Union: EU public information; European Union (port-access ban, Reg. 833/2014 Annex XLII): EU legal acts, free to reuse
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Source: U.S. Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Sanctions List Service
What PANOPT changes
Compares each list with its last good copy and records designations added and removed; merges the vessels named into one watchlist by IMO number.
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A designation is the listing authority's act, not evidence of what a vessel is doing. The UN Security Council's consolidated list is no longer read: UN designations reach PANOPT through the UK, EU and OFAC lists, and the UN's own list is linked here, not republished.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration ([month of the release]), Weekly Petroleum Status Report. For the chokepoint volumes: Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Mar 2026), World Oil Transit Chokepoints; EIA analysis based on Vortexa tanker tracking
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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Oct 2026), Weekly Petroleum Status Report
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Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Mar 2026), World Oil Transit Chokepoints; EIA analysis based on Vortexa tanker tracking
What PANOPT changes
Reads the weekly report's public tables and the weekly history series; shows week-on-week changes and each level against the same week of the five years before, and marks a week older than 12 days stale. The chokepoint volumes are reference figures, not live readings.
No data licence published; the site carries a copyright notice
Citation asked for
Source: International Energy Forum (IEF), Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI) Database, JODI Oil World Database, www.jodidata.org, accessed [date]
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Source: International Energy Forum (IEF), Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI) Database, JODI Oil World Database, www.jodidata.org
What PANOPT changes
Shows each country's newest month with JODI's own quality code in words.
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Not included in PANOPT's paid data files until JODI gives its permission.
Source: CFTC Commitments of Traders, [report date]
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Source: CFTC Commitments of Traders
What PANOPT changes
Reads managed money's long and short positions in WTI crude (NYMEX, contract 067651), computes the net position, its week-on-week change and its rank in a three-year range, and marks the report's age.
We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Raw files: VNP46A2 (doi:10.5067/VIIRS/VNP46A2.002, LAADS DAAC) and VJ146A2_NRT (doi:10.5067/VIIRS/VJ146A2_NRT.002, LANCE).
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We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
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NASA Black Marble files: VNP46A2 (doi:10.5067/VIIRS/VNP46A2.002) from LAADS DAAC; VJ146A2_NRT (doi:10.5067/VIIRS/VJ146A2_NRT.002) and VNP46A2_NRT from LANCE
What PANOPT changes
Compares each city's clear-night radiance with its own baseline; cloudy nights are discarded.
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NASA's data are openly shared, without restriction on use. The raw near-real-time files come through LANCE, which asks each account to accept a one-time click-through licence before its first download.
No licence to reuse posts; authors keep their rights, and each post is shown attributed and linked
Citation asked for
The author's handle and a link to the post.
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Posts from Bluesky (public AppView); authors keep their rights; each item links to its post
What PANOPT changes
Drops reposts, replies and moderated posts; re-checks every held post and withholds any that is deleted; tags posts to situations and places them on the map. Commercial headline services are not carried without their written permission.
Each post shown with its author's name, @handle and picture, linked; its text unaltered; its time and View on X, linked to the post; the X logo.
What PANOPT changes
Leaves out posts about protests, rallies and community organising. Shows a post only in a card that meets X's display requirements, or as a link to it; PANOPT's own headline sits apart from the post, labelled as PANOPT's. Removes a post deleted, made private or whose account is suspended within 24 hours, with anything PANOPT wrote from it. Data files never carry posts.
GDELT: Contains data from The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/). Kremlin.ru: Source: Kremlin.ru (CC BY 4.0). US government feeds: none required; each item names its agency and links it.
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Contains data from The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/).
What PANOPT changes
Filters headlines by topic and groups those that share most of their words; no scoring or confirmation is added.
Source: government.ru (CC BY 4.0), headlines translated by PANOPT.
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Source: minenergo.gov.ru, headlines and excerpts translated by PANOPT.
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Source: IAEA.
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VOA and VOA Persian: public domain; VOA Persian translated by PANOPT.
What PANOPT changes
Russian and Persian headlines and excerpts are translated into English by PANOPT with a language model and marked "(translated)"; VOA's agency copy (AP, Reuters, AFP) is left out; headlines and short excerpts only, never whole articles. No endorsement by any of these bodies is implied.
Data provided by Twelve Data, linked to twelvedata.com, near the prices it supplies.
What PANOPT changes
Keeps prints made while the market is open and drops frozen repeats and any Brent print that disagrees with WTI; shows only statistics computed from them: each move's size against what that hour usually moves, and the median move in dollars. The quotes themselves are not republished.
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A CFD-style reference quote at about 30-second intervals with no volume; not ICE Brent futures.
Drawn in PANOPT's colours under the instrument layers, with Natural Earth's shaded relief beneath the tiles; when the tiles cannot be loaded the map falls back to Natural Earth's 1:110m country outlines.
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