What Roger Wilco Imagery can see today, and how: every data source and method in use, with its coverage and limits. New marks anything added in the last 2 days (0 now). Plans are on the Roadmap; release notes are under Versions.
Mojave Watch (Edwards, Plant 42 / B-21, China Lake, Fort Irwin, Twentynine Palms, Mojave), San Diego Watch (North Island carriers, 32nd Street, Point Loma submarines, Coronado, Miramar, Camp Pendleton), Central Coast Watch (Vandenberg launch pads and test silos, Point Mugu, Port Hueneme, San Nicolas Island), LA Watch (Space Systems Command, Northrop Space Park, the ports, Seal Beach, Los Alamitos, March) and NorCal Watch (Travis, Beale, Livermore, Moffett, Concord, Lemoore, Sierra Army Depot): military and government flights, landings per site, heat, ships in San Diego Bay and the Port of LA, and a plate for each new clear satellite pass.
Sources adsb.lol daily archive, NASA FIRMS area API, Sentinel-2, aisstream.io
Coverage 33 California sites; one shared West Coast flight scan with Vegas Watch
Limits Flights are the day before; most warships and many fighters do not broadcast; live-fire ranges produce routine heat.
A daily one-area report (a Watch, not a SITREP) on Nellis, Creech, Groom Lake, Tonopah Test Range, the Nevada National Security Site, Yucca Mountain, the Janet terminal at Harry Reid, Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, with NAS Fallon, Hawthorne Army Depot and Reno ANG for flights: Janet shuttles, military aircraft by country (Red Flag participants), anything near Groom Lake or Tonopah, landings per site, every heat detection in the box and a plate for each new clear satellite pass.
Sources adsb.lol daily archive, NASA FIRMS area API, Sentinel-2
Coverage Southern Nevada box (Las Vegas to Tonopah) for heat and imagery; all of Nevada for flights
Limits Flights are the day before (archive). Fighters on the ranges and most range traffic do not broadcast ADS-B, so the flight picture is partial; live bombing ranges produce heat that is listed, not flagged.
RCAF, US and allied/foreign military, state and VIP flights, defence contractors (Top Aces, KF Aerospace, L3Harris and others) and police/RCMP aircraft within 50 km of 18 Canadian city centres and below 15,000 ft, logged about every 5 minutes with a daily summary per city.
Sources adsb.lol live (military feed and per-city queries), Transport Canada civil aircraft register, FAA registry
Limits Only aircraft broadcasting ADS-B; contractors and police are identified by registered owner, so leased or re-registered aircraft can be missed. Police flights are published in daily summaries, not live.
Every NASA fire satellite (VIIRS on Suomi NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21; MODIS) for any box and any date range, archive and near-real-time. Used for special passes, history pulls and to catch anything the watch misses.
Sources NASA FIRMS area API
Coverage Global, from 2000 (MODIS) and 2012 (VIIRS); 375 m / 1 km pixels
Limits Cannot tell a strike from a brush fire or a flare by itself; routine flares, kilns and dumps are learned from FIRMS history (heat sources catalogue, 0.8.3), not from temperature yet. Misses short events between passes and fires under cloud.
Everything for a place and past window — optical, radar, Landsat, MODIS, weather, fire, night lights, activity heatmaps — e.g. Al-Watiya in December 2015.
Sources Sentinel-2 (from 2015), Landsat, MODIS, ERA5, NASA FIRMS, Black Marble, Strava heatmap
Every aircraft near a point, a region or a base on any past day, or the whole-day route of named aircraft — e.g. the Wainwright casualty airlift, Al-Watiya landings.
Sources adsb.lol daily archive
Coverage Global where community receivers exist; from early 2024
Limits Low-level flights fade near the ground; aircraft with transponders off are invisible.
Coverage 168 sites; optical every 2–5 days, radar every 6–12 days
Limits 10 m resolution. Cloud mask is SCL plus a baseline-relative brightness / haze / SWIR test (0.8.1; every Sentinel-2 reader since 0.8.3; cloud patches under 2–6 ha are left to SCL in ship and aircraft counts); thin haze over dark ground and cloud SCL half-catches can still leave some residual change.