Overview
World Monitor is the flagship variant focused on real-time global intelligence and geopolitical situation awareness. It aggregates data from 150+ sources to provide a unified view of conflicts, military activity, infrastructure vulnerabilities, and natural disasters.Live Demo: worldmonitor.app
Key Features
World Monitor includes all core intelligence modules:Geopolitical Intelligence
- Active conflict zones with escalation tracking (UCDP + ACLED)
- Intelligence hotspots with news correlation
- Social unrest events (ACLED protests + GDELT geo-events, Haversine-deduplicated)
- Natural disasters from 3 sources (USGS earthquakes M4.5+, GDACS alerts, NASA EONET)
- Sanctions regimes and trade restrictions
- Cyber threat IOCs (C2 servers, malware hosts, phishing URLs) geo-located on the globe
- GPS/GNSS jamming zones from ADS-B transponder analysis (H3 hex grid)
Military & Strategic
- 220+ military bases from 9 operators (US, Russia, China, NATO, France, UK, India, Israel, Iran)
- Live military flight tracking (ADS-B with OpenSky data)
- Naval vessel monitoring (AIS with chokepoint detection)
- Nuclear facilities & gamma irradiators (IAEA data)
- APT cyber threat actor attribution
- Spaceports & launch facilities
- Strategic theater posture assessment for 9 regions (Iran/Persian Gulf, Taiwan Strait, Baltic, Korean Peninsula, etc.)
Infrastructure Monitoring
- Undersea cables with landing points, cable health advisories (NGA navigational warnings), and cable repair ship tracking
- Oil & gas pipelines with corridor mapping
- AI datacenters (111 major clusters worldwide)
- 83 strategic ports across 6 types (container, oil, LNG, naval, mixed, bulk) with throughput rankings
- Internet outages (Cloudflare Radar API)
- Critical mineral deposits (lithium, cobalt, rare earths)
- NASA FIRMS satellite fire detection (VIIRS thermal hotspots)
- 19 global trade routes (container, energy, bulk) with multi-segment arcs through strategic chokepoints
- Airport delays and closures across 128 monitored airports (FAA + AviationStack + ICAO NOTAM)
AI-Powered Analysis
- World Brief — LLM-synthesized summary of top global developments (Ollama → Groq → OpenRouter → browser T5 fallback chain)
- Country Instability Index (CII) — real-time stability scores for every country with incoming data (23 curated tier-1 nations + universal scoring for all others)
- Focal Point Detection — correlates entities across news, military activity, protests, outages, and markets to identify convergence zones
- Trending Keyword Spike Detection — 2-hour rolling window vs 7-day baseline flags surging terms across RSS feeds
- Strategic Posture Assessment — composite risk score combining all intelligence modules
Live News & Video
- 150+ RSS feeds across geopolitics, defense, energy, government, and think tanks
- 8+ default live video streams (Bloomberg, Sky News, Al Jazeera, Euronews, DW, France24, CNBC, Al Arabiya) with automatic live detection
- 22 live webcams from geopolitical hotspots (Iran/Attacks, Middle East, Europe, Americas, Asia-Pacific)
- Custom keyword monitors with word-boundary matching and real-time match counts
Variant-Specific Configuration
Build Command
- Development
- Production Build
- Desktop App
Metadata (vite.config.ts:52-76)
Data Sources
World Monitor aggregates data from 60+ authoritative sources:News Feeds (150+)
Geopolitical (40+ sources)
Geopolitical (40+ sources)
- BBC, The Guardian, NPR, Al Jazeera, CNN, Reuters
- Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, Defense One, Breaking Defense
- Bellingcat, War on the Rocks, CFR, CSIS, Brookings
- Regional: France24, DW, Kyiv Independent, SCMP, The Hindu
Defense & Security (20+ sources)
Defense & Security (20+ sources)
- Defense News, Military Times, Task & Purpose, USNI News
- DoD, State Dept, White House, DHS, CISA
- Krebs on Security, Dark Reading, NATO
Economic & Energy (15+ sources)
Economic & Energy (15+ sources)
- CNBC, MarketWatch, Financial Times, Yahoo Finance
- Federal Reserve, SEC, Treasury, EIA
- OPEC, IEA, World Bank, IMF
Think Tanks (10+ sources)
Think Tanks (10+ sources)
- RUSI, Chatham House, ECFR, Atlantic Council
- Stimson Center, Carnegie Endowment, RAND
- Crisis Group, Arms Control Association
Real-Time Data APIs
| Source | Data Type | Update Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| OpenSky Network | Military flights (ADS-B) | 10 seconds |
| AISStream | Naval vessels (AIS) | Real-time WebSocket |
| USGS | Earthquakes M4.5+ | 5 minutes |
| ACLED | Conflicts & protests | Daily |
| GDELT | Geo-events | 15 minutes |
| Cloudflare Radar | Internet outages | Hourly |
| NASA FIRMS | Satellite fire detection | 3 hours |
| UCDP | Armed conflict zones | Weekly |
| Polymarket | Prediction markets | 2 minutes |
| OREF | Israeli rocket alerts | Near real-time |
Map Layers
World Monitor enables the following map overlays:Conflicts
UCDP armed conflict zones + ACLED conflict events
Protests
ACLED protests + GDELT demonstrations (deduplicated)
Military Bases
220+ bases from 9 operators with facility metadata
Nuclear Facilities
IAEA nuclear reactors + gamma irradiators
Undersea Cables
Cable routes + landing points + health advisories
Pipelines
Oil & gas pipeline corridors worldwide
Military Flights
Live ADS-B tracking with enrichment metadata
Naval Vessels
AIS ship tracking + chokepoint detection
Earthquakes
USGS + GDACS + NASA EONET seismic events
Internet Outages
Cloudflare Radar annotations API
Datacenters
111 major AI/cloud datacenter clusters
Fires
NASA VIIRS thermal hotspot detection
Use Cases
OSINT Analysts
- Multi-source correlation: Cross-reference news, military activity, and infrastructure events in one view
- Convergence detection: Identify when multiple signal types (protests + military + outages) co-occur in the same region
- Temporal baselines: Z-score anomaly detection flags deviations from 90-day historical norms
Security Teams
- Threat intelligence: Cyber IOCs geo-located on the map with severity classification
- GPS jamming zones: H3 hex cells with >2% interference from ADS-B data
- Travel advisories: 4-government consensus (US, UK, Australia, NZ) with CII score floors
Researchers
- Country Brief Pages: Full-page intelligence dossiers with CII score, AI analysis, 7-day timeline, and infrastructure exposure
- Export capabilities: JSON, CSV, PNG image export for offline analysis
- Historical playback: IndexedDB snapshots with time slider for rewinding to past states
Investors
- Geopolitical risk scoring: CII index tracks instability across 250+ countries
- Market correlation: Prediction markets (Polymarket) linked to country briefs
- Infrastructure exposure: 600km radius search for pipelines, cables, datacenters, and ports
Desktop vs. Web
- Desktop App (Tauri)
- Web App (PWA)
Advantages:
- Local API sidecar runs all 60+ handlers locally (no cloud dependency)
- OS keychain integration for API key storage (macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager)
- Ollama/LM Studio auto-discovery for local LLM models
- Settings window (Cmd+,) with 3 tabs: LLMs, API Keys, Debug & Logs
- Verbose debug mode with last 200 request logs
- Auto-update checker (polls every 6 hours)
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