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Live Satellite Imagery

Earth observation from space — real-time vegetation, weather, disasters, and land cover monitored through NASA, ESA, JMA Himawari, and Sentinel-2 satellite systems.

Real-Time Satellite Imagery Viewer

Multi-layer interactive map. Toggle satellite data layers individually or overlap them. Click anywhere for real-time weather. Click disaster icons for event details.

NASA MODIS NDVI NASA GIBS VIIRS ESA WorldCover 2021 MET Norway Weather NASA EONET Disasters
Earth as seen from space · LIVE: NASA VIIRS true-colour · ~6 hour satellite image stitch delay
LAYER CONTROLS
OSM Base Map — always on
Underlies satellite layers · cities visible on deep zoom
Satellite: MODIS (Terra & Aqua)
Resolution: 250m · Update: Every 8 days

Dark Green: Dense healthy vegetation
Light Green/Yellow: Moderate vegetation
Brown/Red: Sparse or barren land
Satellite: Suomi NPP / NOAA-20
Resolution: 250m · Update: Daily

True-color composite of yesterday's pass. Reveals cloud cover, smoke, dust, and surface conditions globally.
Satellite: Sentinel-1 & 2 (ESA)
Resolution: 10m · Update: Annual

Forest · Grassland · Cropland · Wetlands · Urban · Water · Barren. Legend shown bottom-right.
Source: Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Update: Hourly / real-time

Enable, then click any point on the map to fetch temperature, humidity, and wind speed for that location.
Source: NASA EONET · Latest 50 events
Update: Continuous / real-time

Wildfires · Storms · Volcanoes · Floods · Earthquakes. Click icons for event details and news links.
About this viewer: All map layers are served directly from NASA GIBS (public tile service) and ESA Terrascope WMS — no satellite data is stored on our servers. Weather data and EONET events are fetched via our backend Lambda functions so upstream API endpoints remain server-side only. Multi-layer overlap is enabled — toggle any combination simultaneously. NDVI and WorldCover use WMS; GIBS VIIRS is a WMTS tile layer dated to yesterday's satellite pass.

Himawari — Full Disc Earth, Daily

Full-disc Earth imagery from JAXA / JMA's Himawari-9 geostationary satellite, updated throughout the day. Six spectral bands — true colour, infrared, and composite — show weather systems, dust, vegetation and ocean patterns across Asia-Pacific in real time.

Why Himawari? Unlike polar-orbit satellites that pass once daily, Himawari is geostationary — it stares at the same face of Earth continuously, providing disc images every 10 minutes. Band 13 infrared is particularly striking: cloud tops glow white against the dark ocean surface, and cyclone spirals become immediately visible.

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Live vs Real-Time Satellite Imagery

Live Satellite Imagery

Near-real-time visuals with a processing delay of a few minutes to several hours. Data from the satellite's sensor pass is processed, georeferenced, and tile-served before delivery. GIBS VIIRS True Color and Himawari full-disc images fall into this category — typically 1–6 hours behind the actual satellite pass.

Real-Time Satellite Imagery

Instant or near-instant unprocessed feeds, typically used in defence, maritime, and operational weather monitoring. The MET Norway weather layer and NASA EONET disaster events approximate real-time by fetching the latest available data point on demand, without a pre-cached tile delay.

What This Page Shows

A combination of both — interactive tile layers (NDVI, GIBS, WorldCover) updated on satellite pass schedules, and on-demand data pulls (weather, disasters, Himawari bands) that fetch the freshest available data at the moment of your visit.

How APIs Are Protected

Public tile services (NASA GIBS, ESA Terrascope) are accessed directly — they are free, keyless, and designed for client-side use. All other API calls (EONET, MET Norway weather, Himawari harvest) are routed through AWS Lambda functions, so upstream endpoints and any credentials stay entirely server-side.

Citations & Attributions

OpenStreetMap (Base Map)

© OpenStreetMap contributors. Licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL).

NASA MODIS NDVI & NASA GIBS VIIRS (Satellite Imagery)

We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Public domain — NASA data is free for public use.

ESA WorldCover 2021 (Land Cover Classification)

© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium. esa-worldcover.org. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

MET Norway (Real-Time Weather)

Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway). Licensed under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0 and Creative Commons 4.0 BY International.

NASA EONET (Natural Event Tracker)

NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET). NASA Earth Observatory, NASA EOSDIS. Public domain.

JMA Himawari-9 (Full Disc Imagery)

Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) / JAXA. Himawari Real-Time Image. Used for scientific and educational purposes under JMA open data policy.