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Everything this observatory reads, and under what terms. The rule everywhere: we link, we never copy.

NGA ASAM archive

US Government work, public domain

Historical incident records 2022-2024, including descriptions and vessel details. Programme defunded 30 June 2024.

Fintraffic / Digitraffic marine AIS

CC BY 4.0

Live AIS positions over Finnish and nearby Baltic waters, polled every ten seconds.

ReCAAP ISC open map API

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.

IMB Piracy Reporting Centre live map

Attributed, source-linked on every event

Automated ingestion of worldwide piracy and armed-robbery sitreps from July 2024 onward.

NGA MSI broadcast warnings

US Government work, public domain

Active NAVAREA / HYDRO warnings with a security dimension; quoted positions parsed onto the live map layers.

UKMTO

Linked, never copied

Advisories and warnings referenced in the weekly brief.

MICA Center

Linked, never copied

Gulf of Guinea and worldwide maritime security reporting, referenced.

Joint War Committee circulars

Reconstructed perimeters only

Listed-area geometry in the zones atlas is an approximate visualisation; the circulars remain authoritative.

NASA GIBS · VIIRS Black Marble

NASA open data, credited

Night-lights Earth imagery on the home globe.

OpenFreeMap / OpenMapTiles / OpenStreetMap

ODbL (OSM), attribution on every map

Vector basemap tiles restyled as the observatory's Abyss map style.

Natural Earth

Public domain

Land geometry used in generated dot-grid assets.

Also standing on: Astro, MapLibre GL JS, three.js, Observable Plot, D3, GSAP, Lenis, Spectral, Archivo and IBM Plex Mono. Thank you.