Geo Tools

Description

Microsoft satellite and mapping service. 

Pros: More recent and higher resolution imagery than Google, e.g. in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Cons: Difficult to check the date of the imagery.

Convert geographic coordinates between different notation styles.

Satellite imagery vendor. Preview available via the catalogus, search tool very easy to use.

Combines Google’s road maps, aerial view, and street view in one embeddable tool.

Geobased search tool

Open-Source Intelligence Platform

The Echosec Systems Platform gathers real-time data from thousands of online sources to inform security and intelligence operations

Provides information about history, people, government, economics, geography, communication, transport, military, and cross-border issues for 267 countries.

Georeferenced images.

Database of location names. Wide variety of different spellings in various languages.

A Geolocation OSINT Tool. Offers geolocation information gathering through social networking platforms.

Insert in search box: geocode:[coordinates],[radius-km], for example: geocode:36.222285,43.998233,2km (only works with km, so 500m = 0.5km)

Add a Bing Maps satellite imagery layer. Historical imagery. Training guides here.

Open-access satellite imagery and analytical framework. 

Pros: Virtually any satellite imagery collected from NASA, NOAA, USGS, etc. is available.

Cons: Moderate and coarse resolution imagery rather than high-resolution commercial imagery; Learning curve with Javascript.

Pros: StreetView, many large cities in U.S., Europe, modelled in 3D.

Cons: No historical satellite imagery, but historic streetview images available in many places.

More recent satellite imagery than Google in e.g. Iraq.

Interactive live map of conflict news. Variety of countries available: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, U.S., Ukraine, Venezuela, etc.

Calculate amount of people that are standing in selected Google Maps area.

Crowdsourced street level photos. Useful addition to Google Streetview. Little to no coverage in countries like Syria, Iraq, etc.

Alternative map service.

Radiant.Earth enables users to explore an unlimited number of Earth imagery-related resources via an open and neutral pathway, meaning that these resources may be publicly or commercially available.

Updated every 5-10 days with new imagery, dependent on cloud cover. Ability to explore a variety of GIS variables eg NDVI or NDWO. Generally low resolution of 10m/px.

Crowdsourced information related to geographic locations. Possibility to switch between Google/Bing/OSM. Massive amount of UCG information. Can be laggy, and need to refresh page after a view searches.

Database with statistics about countries

Alternative map service.