Sources & licences
Everything this observatory reads, and under what terms. The rule everywhere: we link, we never copy.
US Government work, public domain
Historical incident records 2022-2024, including descriptions and vessel details. Programme defunded 30 June 2024.
CC BY 4.0
Live AIS positions over Finnish and nearby Baltic waters, polled every ten seconds.
Extracts reproduced non-commercially with acknowledgement, per ReCAAP ISC terms
Automated ingestion of piracy and armed-robbery incidents across Asia (position, type, ship, narrative), refreshed with every data update.
Attributed, source-linked on every event
Automated ingestion of worldwide piracy and armed-robbery sitreps from July 2024 onward.
US Government work, public domain
Active NAVAREA / HYDRO warnings with a security dimension; quoted positions parsed onto the live map layers.
Linked, never copied
Gulf of Guinea and worldwide maritime security reporting, referenced.
Reconstructed perimeters only
Listed-area geometry in the zones atlas is an approximate visualisation; the circulars remain authoritative.
ODbL (OSM), attribution on every map
Vector basemap tiles restyled as the observatory's Abyss map style.