Open Source Data Catalogue
All data in this platform is sourced exclusively from public datasets. No classified or restricted intelligence is used.
All data in this platform is sourced from publicly available, open-source datasets — the same sources used by academic researchers, journalists, and policy analysts worldwide. The platform demonstrates that rigorous defence intelligence analysis can be conducted entirely from open data without recourse to classified or restricted material.
Annual military spending data for 170+ countries. As of April 2026, SIPRI public data covers 1949-2024 and the next annual release is scheduled for 27 April 2026. Used for historical spending figures only.
Records of international transfers of major conventional weapons systems. Searchable by supplier, recipient, weapon type, and year.
Annual open-source assessment of military forces, equipment inventories, and defence economics for 170+ countries. Treat local platform records as summaries that require periodic analyst review against the latest edition.
Keyless near-real-time article discovery API. The Conflict Timeline route queries GDELT server-side and displays only article titles, timestamps, domains, and URLs returned by the API.
Structured conflict event data with disaggregated locations, actors, event types, and fatalities. ACLED support remains available through /api/acled when credentials are configured, but the active Conflict Timeline feed uses GDELT by default.
Since 1946. Organised violence including state-based conflict, non-state conflict, one-sided violence. Peer-reviewed academic standard dataset.
Daily operational assessments of Russia-Ukraine and Middle East conflicts. GIS-mapped frontline tracking. Open access.
Annual open-source reference on military capabilities and defence economics. Used as a baseline OOB reference; platform entries should be treated as analytic summaries, not direct extracts.
Official US government assessments of Chinese (PLA), Russian, Iranian, North Korean military development. Highly detailed open-source assessment.
Non-partisan analysis of defence programs, arms transfers, country military assessments. Comprehensive and freely accessible.
Annual estimates of global nuclear arsenals by country. The peer-reviewed academic standard. All nuclear figures in this platform sourced here.
Federation of American Scientists. Detailed per-country nuclear force assessments published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Peer-reviewed.
Nuclear treaties, arms control agreements, verification mechanisms. Fact sheets, country profiles, and historical treaty analysis.
Pioneer of open-source investigative journalism. OSINT methodology guides, geolocation techniques, and case studies including Bucha, MH17, and Iran-Israel incidents.
Missile Defence Project database, China Power index, Indo-Pacific tracker. Structured data with visualisations. Free public access.
UK-based defence think tank. Deep-dive analytical reports on Russia, China, NATO. Ukraine conflict analysis particularly strong.
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. WMD-focused analysis, proliferation tracking, and satellite imagery interpretation.
ESA's free Sentinel-2 satellite archive. True-colour imagery, multispectral analysis. This platform uses the Sentinel Hub Process API. Free tier available.
Historical satellite imagery archive from 2014 to present. Used for before/after change comparison in this platform. Free public access.
MODIS, Landsat, SRTM elevation data. Long historical record for land-cover change analysis. All free.
Integrated at /api/conflict-events. Server-side route queries GDELT DOC 2.0, deduplicates article results, caches responses, and preserves actual article URLs from the API response.
GDELT_TIMESPAN=3d GDELT_MAX_RECORDS=40 # No API key required
Legacy optional integration remains at /api/acled. Configure credentials if you want structured event records instead of article-level GDELT metadata.
ACLED_API_KEY=your_key_here ACLED_EMAIL=your@email.com # Register free: https://developer.acleddata.com
SIPRI publishes annual Excel datasets. Import script can populate spending figures dynamically after a source file is added. Current public milex release covers 2024 data until the scheduled 2026 update is published.
npx tsx scripts/import-sipri.ts --file SIPRI-milex-data-2024.xlsx
Already integrated via /api/imagery/[locationId]. Add credentials to .env to activate.
SENTINEL_HUB_CLIENT_ID=xxx SENTINEL_HUB_CLIENT_SECRET=xxx
ESRI Wayback Archive integrated in before/after comparison slider. No API key required. Free public service.
https://waybackapi.esri.com/getReleases?f=json
ESRI MapServer Export API used to serve real satellite imagery in the Military Base Developments page. Each featured research card fetches a geo-bounded JPEG of the actual facility via the public ESRI export endpoint. No API key required. Attribution required: © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.
https://server.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer/export
?bbox={minLon},{minLat},{maxLon},{maxLat}&bboxSR=4326&size=640,320&format=jpg&f=image