About Planetary Monitoring
An Earth observation and geophysical intelligence platform.
Purpose
Planetary Monitoring integrates independent satellite, terrestrial, environmental
and space-weather observations from authoritative scientific agencies into a
common monitoring environment. Diverse Earth-system signals are placed into
shared spatial and temporal context so that relationships between processes can
be examined: whether a ground-deformation signal coincides with a hydrological
anomaly, whether a geomagnetic disturbance aligns with unusual GNSS positioning
noise, or whether subsidence rates are consistent with known groundwater
extraction patterns.
Most monitoring systems expose individual datasets in isolation. Planetary
Monitoring evaluates them together so that cross-domain relationships become
visible without requiring the user to operate multiple specialist tools.
Scope: What we monitor
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Ground Motion: millimetre-scale land surface displacement
and velocity from InSAR (Copernicus EGMS) and GNSS networks (SONEL,
EarthScope / UNAVCO). Detects subsidence, uplift and horizontal motion.
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Seismic Activity: earthquake catalogue from the USGS with
magnitude, depth and fault-zone spatial context.
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Hydrology: terrestrial water storage anomalies from NASA
GRACE-FO, precipitation from Open-Meteo ERA5 reanalysis, and groundwater
levels from USGS NWIS.
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Geomagnetism: ground magnetic field at observatory
stations from INTERMAGNET and the British Geological Survey; planetary Kp
and Dst indices from NOAA SWPC.
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Space Weather: solar wind speed, density and Bz component
from NOAA SWPC DSCOVR; aurora probability from the NOAA OVATION model.
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Ocean and Climate: sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST;
El Niño–Southern Oscillation state from NOAA CPC Oceanic Niño Index.
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Fire and Thermal: active fire locations and radiative
power from NASA FIRMS (MODIS and VIIRS instruments).
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Volcanic Context: volcanic alert levels and activity from
the USGS Volcano Hazards Program, correlated with ground-deformation signals
where available.
Intended Audience
Planetary Monitoring is designed for researchers, engineers, environmental
scientists, infrastructure professionals and informed members of the public
who wish to examine Earth-system behaviour with access to underlying data
sources and a transparent record of analytical assumptions.
Scientific Philosophy
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Public-source data. Every observation originates from
an authoritative scientific agency. The platform does not manufacture,
alter or misrepresent source data.
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Epistemic discipline. Directly measured observations,
model outputs and inferred interpretations are explicitly distinguished.
Correlation is never presented as demonstrated causation.
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Transparent limitations. Data freshness, spatial coverage,
temporal resolution and known gaps are surfaced openly. Missing evidence is
treated as uncertainty, not absence of an effect.
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Cross-domain integration without overclaiming.
Independent datasets are examined together. Candidate explanatory drivers
are proposed only where independent supporting signals exist and are
labelled with the appropriate confidence level.
Methodology ·
Data Sources ·
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