Method

How these are made. SITREPs are LLM-generated and automated: produced by an AI model from the pipeline's open-source data and published. They are leads, not findings. Analyses are different: written by a human and signed by their author.

How the pipeline works and what it can and cannot see.

Sources

  • Sentinel-2 L2A optical, 10 m (Copernicus, via Element 84 Earth Search).
  • Sentinel-1 RTC radar, 10 m — sees through cloud and at night (via Microsoft Planetary Computer).
  • Landsat 8/9 optical, 30 m.
  • NASA FIRMS thermal detections — VIIRS (375 m) on three satellites and MODIS (1 km).

Cadence

  • Imagery pickup once a day (GitHub Actions; run time varies).
  • Thermal watch every 3 hours.
  • SITREPs are LLM-generated and automated, and numbered. The model checks each finding against open news reporting and tags it CORRELATED PARTIAL NOT IN NEWS NOTHING TO MATCH.
  • Analyses are written by a human and signed by their author.

Limits

  • 10 m imagery shows ships, large aircraft, burn scars and construction — not vehicle or aircraft types.
  • Thermal detections cannot tell a strike from a brush fire, gas flare or burning waste.
  • Watch boxes are rectangles and can include neighbouring territory.
  • Absence of a news match is not proof nothing happened; absence of a detection is not proof nothing burned.

Attribution

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. Thermal data courtesy of NASA FIRMS (LANCE).