The moving world, on one globe

Live flights

Aircraft broadcasting ADS-B appear around wherever you look, moving smoothly between position reports. Click one to follow it with a trail, its altitude, speed and heading, and a 3D model of its class. Emergency squawks turn red.

• Coverage of 250 nautical miles around the center of your view
• Aircraft table and “What’s overhead”
• Cockpit ride-along and object detection boxes (Black Clearance)

How the flight tracker works

Ships at sea

Ships report their position, speed and course over AIS. Gods Eyes keeps one live stream open and colors each vessel by type: cargo, tankers, passenger ships, fishing boats and more.

• Live AIS from coastal receivers, refreshed every minute
• Vessel table, fishing activity and world ports (Black Clearance)

How the ship tracker works

Satellites in orbit

Thousands of satellites, from the International Space Station to weather and navigation satellites, computed live from published orbital elements. Follow one and watch its ground track.

• Orbits from CelesTrak, positions computed in your browser
• Starlink, ISS passes and rocket launches (Black Clearance)

How the satellite tracker works

Weather, live

Satellite clouds, animated forecast winds, National Weather Service alerts and National Hurricane Center storm tracks. Rain radar and lightning join them on one timeline with Black Clearance.

• NWS watches and warnings, updated every two minutes
• Rain radar, lightning, storm outlook, river gauges and ocean buoys (Black Clearance)

How live weather alerts work

Earthquakes, fires and hazards

Earthquakes from the U.S. Geological Survey as they happen, active fire detections from NASA satellites, volcano alerts and tsunami messages.

• Every earthquake USGS reports, refreshed every minute
• Notable events filed automatically in the events archive
• Wildfire perimeters and air quality (Black Clearance)

How live earthquakes work

Live public cameras

Thousands of public traffic cameras from departments of transportation, each placed where it stands and pointed where it looks. Open one to see its live view on the globe.

• 5 free camera views a day, unlimited with Black Clearance
• Feeds from official public camera programs

Buses and trains

Live vehicle positions from public transit agencies that publish open real-time data, in cities across North America, Europe and Australia.

• From the agencies’ own GTFS-Realtime feeds
• Buses, trains and bike share stations are part of Black Clearance

Vision modes

See the world through sensor looks, all of them free: Optical, CCTV, Night Ops, Thermal, Cold War, Whiteout and Dossier, with a tactical heads-up display.

• Photorealistic 3D cities (Black Clearance)
• Detection boxes on everything in view (Black Clearance)