Data Sources & Attributions

Last updated: July 15, 2026

Iron Shield Systems Awareness Platform visualizes data from the third-party sources below, each under its own licence. We are grateful to these providers. Data is used for an informational service.

Certain sources are subject to non-commercial licence restrictions. Iron Shield Systems is reviewing and monitoring the Platform's use of those sources and will remove or separately license them if required.

OpenStreetMap
Category: Mapping & base layers
Used for: Power grid, pipelines, military sites, embassies, and other map features.
Update pattern: Provider-defined
Attribution: © OpenStreetMap contributors
Licence: Open Database License (ODbL)
CARTO
Category: Mapping & base layers
Used for: Basemap tiles.
Update pattern: Provider-defined
Attribution: © CARTO, © OpenStreetMap contributors
Licence: Licence review required
NGA
Category: Government / public-domain
Used for: World Port Index (Pub 150) ports and MIRTA military-installation boundaries.
Update pattern: Provider-defined
Attribution: U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Licence: Public domain (U.S. Government work)
Original website: https://msi.nga.mil
NOAA / National Hurricane Center
Category: Government / public-domain
Used for: Active tropical-cyclone data.
Update pattern: Provider-defined
Attribution: NOAA / National Hurricane Center
Licence: Public domain (U.S. Government work)
Original website: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov
USGS
Category: Government / public-domain
Used for: Earthquake and related feeds.
Update pattern: Provider-defined
Attribution: U.S. Geological Survey
Licence: Public domain
Original website: https://earthquake.usgs.gov
NASA FIRMS
Category: Government / public-domain
Used for: Active fire / thermal-anomaly data.
Update pattern: Provider-defined
Attribution: NASA FIRMS
Licence: Licence review required
Disabled in this deployment until credentials and terms are verified.
Smithsonian Institution — Global Volcanism Program
Category: Scientific & institutional
Used for: Volcanoes of the World (Holocene volcano inventory).
Update pattern: Provider-defined
Attribution: Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program
Licence: Used with attribution
Original website: https://volcano.si.edu
The Space Devs — Launch Library 2
Category: Scientific & institutional
Used for: Upcoming launch data.
Update pattern: Provider-defined
Attribution: The Space Devs
Licence: Used with attribution
Original website: https://thespacedevs.com
adsb.lol
Category: Aviation & maritime
Used for: Community ADS-B aircraft data.
Update pattern: Provider-defined
Attribution: adsb.lol contributors
Licence: Licence review required
Original website: https://adsb.lol
airplanes.live
Category: Aviation & maritime
Used for: Community ADS-B aircraft data.
Update pattern: Provider-defined
Attribution: airplanes.live
Licence: Licence review required
Original website: https://airplanes.live
aisstream.io
Category: Aviation & maritime
Used for: Community AIS vessel data.
Update pattern: Provider-defined
Attribution: aisstream.io
Licence: Licence review required
Original website: https://aisstream.io
Live News TV
Category: News & media
Used for: Live news streams, embedded via broadcasters’ official YouTube channels.
Update pattern: Provider-defined
Attribution: Respective broadcasters; embedded via official YouTube channels
Licence: Subject to YouTube’s Terms of Service; streams remain the broadcasters’ property
The Platform does not host, rebroadcast, or claim ownership of any stream.
Other news / event feeds
Category: News & media
Used for: Headlines and links.
Update pattern: Provider-defined
Attribution: Respective publishers
Licence: Headlines and links remain the property of the publishers

Global Conflicts & Crises

Conflict and crisis information is compiled from public, official, humanitarian, curated and third-party sources. Events may be delayed, incomplete, disputed or subsequently corrected. Iron Shield Systems does not independently verify every report and does not provide operational military intelligence.

The Global Conflicts & Crises layers draw on the providers listed below. Each event shown in the application carries its own source attribution, a confidence classification, and a verification-status label. News-discovery results are always labelled Reported / Unverified. Satellite thermal detections are labelled as thermal anomalies whose cause is not determined — they are not treated as evidence of an attack. Coordinates are never invented: humanitarian and news items may be shown at country or regional level with no precise point.

UCDP (Uppsala Conflict Data Program) Directly integrated
Category: Conflict & crisis data
Used for: Expert-coded, georeferenced conflict events (curated historical/recent).
Update pattern: Candidate data: daily version check · Stable data: weekly/monthly
Attribution: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Licence: UCDP terms — free for research/education; attribution required
Original website: https://ucdp.uu.se/
ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data) Directly integrated
Category: Conflict & crisis data
Used for: Disaggregated political-violence and protest event data (disabled pending licence).
Update pattern: Per official update frequency and licence
Attribution: Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED); acleddata.com
Licence: ACLED licence — requires registration; commercial/public-website use must be confirmed
Original website: https://acleddata.com/
ReliefWeb (UN OCHA) Directly integrated
Category: Conflict & crisis data
Used for: Humanitarian, situation, displacement and access reports (title, source, excerpt, link only).
Update pattern: 15–60 minutes
Attribution: ReliefWeb — UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and information partners
Licence: ReliefWeb API terms — approved appname required; respect partners’ IP; no full-report reproduction
Original website: https://reliefweb.int/
GDELT (news discovery) Directly integrated
Category: Conflict & crisis data
Used for: Rapid news-article discovery. Every result labelled REPORTED / UNVERIFIED.
Update pattern: 5–15 minutes
Attribution: The GDELT Project (gdeltproject.org)
Licence: GDELT DOC API — public; results are article metadata only (no full text)
Ukraine civil-defence air-alert provider Directly integrated
Category: Conflict & crisis data
Used for: Active air / artillery / chemical / nuclear alerts by region (disabled pending authorized access).
Update pattern: Per authorized provider limits (potentially 15–60s)
Attribution: Official or authorized Ukrainian civil-defence alert data supplied by the named provider
Licence: Authorized Ukrainian alert API — per provider terms; requires API key
Original website: https://alerts.in.ua/
NASA FIRMS (thermal anomalies) Directly integrated
Category: Conflict & crisis data
Used for: Satellite-detected thermal anomalies. Every marker: "cause not determined".
Update pattern: Per official documented availability
Attribution: NASA FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System)
Licence: NASA FIRMS — open data via authorized documented API/feed (MAP_KEY)
Liveuamap External link only — not scraped
Category: Conflict & crisis data
Used for: External link only until Iron Shield Systems obtains legitimate API/data-licensing access.
Update pattern: External service
Attribution: Liveuamap (third-party external service)
Licence: No scraping. Direct integration only with a legitimate API/data licence.
Original website: https://liveuamap.com/
DeepStateMap External link only — not scraped
Category: Conflict & crisis data
Used for: External link only. Iron Shield Systems does not independently verify or reproduce its control lines.
Update pattern: External service
Attribution: DeepStateMap (third-party assessed frontline map)
Licence: No scraping / no polygon reproduction without written permission.
Original website: https://deepstatemap.live/

Some conflict providers are shown here for transparency but remain disabled in this deployment until the required credentials, terms and permissions have been verified — including ACLED, the Ukrainian civil-defence alert provider, and NASA FIRMS. Liveuamap and DeepStateMap are referenced as external specialist maps only; Iron Shield Systems Awareness Platform does not scrape, copy, reproduce or independently verify their content, and does not reproduce assessed control lines without written permission. A per-provider operational status is available to administrators on the internal provider-diagnostics page.

If you are a rights holder and believe content is used improperly, contact legal@ironshieldsystems.com and we will address it promptly.