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All right. So, a week ago, I built Worldview, basically my personal geospatial [music]
• Satellite surveillance passes (Maxar, Capella, Gaofen, Persona, USA-234 Topaz)
• ADS-B military & commercial flight tracking
• GPS jamming/interference detection
• AIS maritime tracking (Strait of Hormuz)
• Airspace closures & no-fly zones
• Internet blackout monitoring
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:59 - Welcome to WorldView playback mode
1:14 - GPS jamming
1:39 - Satellite surveillance over Iran
2:13 - Chinese & Russian military satellites
3:07 - Zero hour: First strike on the nuclear base
4:25 - Commercial flights start redirecting
5:27 - Airspace closures cascade across the region
5:49 - Retaliatory strikes hit US bases
6:16 - Commercial air traffic time-lapse
6:50 - Planes stuck in holding patterns
7:15 - Strait of Hormuz shuts down
7:38 - The full 4D time-lapse replay
8:27 - What one person can see with public data
10:28 - WorldView launch & conclusion
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command center with live open source intelligence all running in my browser.9 seconds
It
was just a prototype, a fun weekend project, but the internet kind of
went crazy over it. It's like being shared by all these people. OIcoded
Palunteer.17 seconds
Like,
then Saturday morning, the Iran strikes happen. And I'm sitting there
watching the news and I suddenly realize, holy [snorts] crap, I'm
sitting on the perfect infrastructure to actually monitor this
situation. [music]27 seconds
So,
while this was happening, I set loose an AI agent swarm to basically
capture every open- source signal that I could find before the [music]
cash is35 seconds
clear. And what I got back is a full 4D reconstruction of Operation Epic Fury.40 seconds
From the satellites flying over to the first strike to ships and planes getting rerouted to the retaliatory response,46 seconds
it's
all captured and replayable on a [music] 3D globe. and I'm going to
break it down for you minute by minute what actually happened and show
you some54 seconds
intel you're not going to see anywhere [music] else unless you have a security clearance. Let's get into it. All right,Chapter 2: Welcome to WorldView playback mode
59 seconds
welcome
to World View. We're now in playback mode and on the bottom you'll see
we have the entire timeline of Operation Epic Fury, the entire strike1 minute, 7 seconds
on
Iran and the response therein. I've got all sorts of data in here.
We've got the satellites that are flying over orbit. We've got the
commercial flights.1 minute, 13 seconds
We've got military flights. We've got GPS jamming which are the red tiles over here. And if you zoom really in, we'veChapter 3: GPS jamming
1 minute, 20 seconds
even
got maritime data of like boats and ships that are moving around. So,
let's talk about all of it. So, the first thing you'll notice is that
we've got a bunch of commercial flights down here,1 minute, 29 seconds
but
we're seeing a sudden spike in GPS jamming. This is all derived from
ADSB data, and you will see very quickly that starts getting pretty
freaking spicy.Chapter 4: Satellite surveillance over Iran
1 minute, 39 seconds
Another
really interesting view is to see what are the commercial and defense
satellites that are flying over Iran right before the first strike
happens.1 minute, 47 seconds
So
we see the Pades Neo World View Legion spot satellites and you'll start
seeing lines connect when they actually go over an area of interest.
And it1 minute, 55 seconds
might
be interesting for us to see what are some of these satellites. So
let's look up Persona 3. Persona 3 is a class of Russian highresolution
military2 minutes, 4 seconds
surveillance
satellites. And what you'll find is this only escalates further. So we
got worldview which is Maxar Vantor commercialist satellite imagery2 minutes, 12 seconds
provider.
We've got Galfen 11. Let's look that one up real quick. So, Galen 11
and 12 are Chinese highresolution microwave remote sensing satellites.Chapter 5: Chinese & Russian military satellites
2 minutes, 21 seconds
There
is the world view constellation again, worldview legion. There we got
Galen 12, the Chinese satellite going over Iran. Uh-oh. Directly over
the2 minutes, 29 seconds
point
of interest, we got Capella and Galen. So, Capella is a synthetic
aperture radar satellite. The thing that was used to like map the stuff
below the2 minutes, 37 seconds
pyramids that's been going viral. And the cool thing about synthetic aperture radar is like it can see through clouds.2 minutes, 42 seconds
So,
whether you have clouds or not, this thing will penetrate. Palades Neo,
a really nice European satellite. Another Chinese satellite. And so, as
we get to zero hour here with the First Strike,2 minutes, 51 seconds
you'll
see a lot of countries are interested in what's going down. Of course,
you got the Chinese, we got the Russians, and let's take a second to
look at this satellite over here. USA 234 Topaz. Wonder what that is.
Oh,3 minutes, 3 seconds
that's right. Cool. Very cool. All right. So we have zero hour strike on the nuclear base in Iran and the TopazChapter 6: Zero hour: First strike on the nuclear base
3 minutes, 11 seconds
military spy satellites going over and then right after you have a flurry of activity, the Chinese and the Americans3 minutes, 18 seconds
making
sure they're imaging what it is they bombed. So my guess is what's
happening is the initial satellites are documenting the initial
positions and3 minutes, 26 seconds
then right after events start escalating, you've got other satellites imaging what happened after the [music]3 minutes, 31 seconds
fact.
So, what you'll notice as other events pop up on the map, they're
typically very closely aligned with satellites flying over. And there we
go.3 minutes, 39 seconds
Terron's and internet blackouts, but the satellites fly over Iran just continues,3 minutes, 44 seconds
especially as you see strikes in other parts of the country. And by the way,3 minutes, 47 seconds
this
doesn't include all the other spy satellites cuz a few of them just
aren't tracked or we only have the last known position for when, you
know, open source folks are actually doing the tracking.3 minutes, 57 seconds
And
then as all the strikes complete, we get a completely new suite. We got
the spy satellites going over. We got the commercial satellites, all of
them. And by the way, like 90% of the business of4 minutes, 6 seconds
most of these commercial satellite providers is the US government. And then it's like companies like Google, Apple,4 minutes, 10 seconds
and
Microsoft for maps and things like this. So very cool. I haven't seen
anyone else really correlate satellite flyovers with these type of
global events, which makes a ton of sense,4 minutes, 18 seconds
right?
Like what are the areas of interest that are being imaged? And uh what
does that tell us about the various sites? So, another interesting thing
that you'll notice here is like obviously we got a bunch of commercialChapter 7: Commercial flights start redirecting
4 minutes, 27 seconds
flights, but as GPS jamming intensifies and we get closer towards zero hour.4 minutes, 31 seconds
Notice
how a bunch of these flights start redirecting. They're just going
straight right like uh-uh I'm getting the hell out of dodge. I ain't
going4 minutes, 38 seconds
that way. But yet, there are a few brave ones that trudge on. Let's see which ones those are. Let's see. We got THY4 minutes, 45 seconds
631 and VIR 354. And okay, this is now we got Terron in a freaking blackout.4 minutes, 53 seconds
And
you've still got a bunch of these flights that are stuck in the middle
of this all. And these flights that are continuing, they're going full
Leroy Jenkins. And this one is Turkish Airlines. They want to get to
Turkey,5 minutes, 3 seconds
which
is on the other side, which kind of makes sense, right? Like there's a
bunch of commercial air traffic and stuff going on over here. But yeah,5 minutes, 9 seconds
imagine
being on these flights as shit's going down. Oh my god, that has to be
absolutely crazy. Meanwhile, all these other flights that we saw that
are5 minutes, 16 seconds
getting the hell out of dodge are just happy to be out just in the nick of time before Iran is declared a no-fly zone.5 minutes, 23 seconds
Now, let's take a look at the various airspaces getting shut down after the first strike happens. Very quickly,Chapter 8: Airspace closures cascade across the region
5 minutes, 29 seconds
you'll see, but as soon as Iran's a no-fly zone, Iraq is right next to it,5 minutes, 33 seconds
right?
Like, they're the next to go down. They're like, "Holy get the hell out
of dodge. This is about to go crazy." And you'll see Iraq pop up over5 minutes, 40 seconds
here.
So their airspace is largely cleared out and then the other Gulf
countries are going to follow suit. So you'll see right as we get to
about here, Kuwait closes down its airspace.5 minutes, 48 seconds
These are Iran's retaliatory strikes,Chapter 9: Retaliatory strikes hit US bases
5 minutes, 51 seconds
right?
So the US has air bases all over the place, right? Including in Bahin
and Qatar. And you'll see they're going to get targeted next by the
Iran. So there5 minutes, 58 seconds
we
go. That's the fifth fleet. That's a military base run by the US that
got hit. You've get al- Udid that was hit as well. And with some of the
air defense systems, you've got civilian bleed over,6 minutes, 8 seconds
right?
like basically crap falling out of the sky in civilian zones. So as all
the airspaces are all shut down and then Kuwait gets hit. Now this part
of theChapter 10: Commercial air traffic time-lapse
6 minutes, 17 seconds
world has some of the busiest commercial air traffic and you will see a cascading effect as these no-fly zones pop up.6 minutes, 23 seconds
Right?
So Tyrron's down at this point as we mentioned, you got a bunch of the
strikes going down. Another interesting thing to see is if we go back to
the start and now I give you a much faster6 minutes, 32 seconds
time
lapse. Basically 15 minutes per second. You can notice how robust the
commercial air traffic is between this region, right? This is one of the6 minutes, 39 seconds
busiest
areas in the world. And you'll see the moment that all these no-fly
zones come up, this commercial traffic is going to completely thin out.
So,6 minutes, 46 seconds
look
at this. All completely gone. And what's funny is like if I zoom in and
actually slow things down, you can see a bunch of planes go into this
likeChapter 11: Planes stuck in holding patterns
6 minutes, 55 seconds
holding
formation before they figure out where the hell are they supposed to
actually go. It's [laughter] kind of crazy. It's like what do we do?
What do we do? Oh my god. And then all the7 minutes, 3 seconds
airspaces
start shutting down. They're like, "Oh UAE shut down. Where do we go
now?" So they like creep right below between these like no-fly zones7 minutes, 12 seconds
and
pop out over here. By the way, a bunch of these yellow planes are
military planes. So another interesting thing to observe is after the
air traffic completely clears out, whatChapter 12: Strait of Hormuz shuts down
7 minutes, 20 seconds
about
maritime trade, right? Like this is the Gulf region. What happened is
essentially the straight of Hermos got closed down. Essentially the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard was like, "Yo, this7 minutes, 29 seconds
is
basically closed. Get the hell out of here." There were reports of some
ships being attacked. And by the way, as all these other tankers are
clearing out,7 minutes, 35 seconds
this
is the tanker that actually got hit. Now, what's crazy is if I come out
to about this zoom level and just play everything at a much faster
clip, like a time lapse, if you will, being able toChapter 13: The full 4D time-lapse replay
7 minutes, 44 seconds
see
the GPS jamming intensify, you've got commercial traffic that's like
trying to make its way in and immediately starts getting the hell out7 minutes, 51 seconds
of
dodge. You've got all the military and commercial satellites that are
trying to image the area of interest that's about to get totally bombed.
And then suddenly back to back with actual8 minutes
oent data like things happening on the ground completely correlated on a 3D globe seeing all the strikes pan out.8 minutes, 8 seconds
Then
you go down and see like the Gulf airspace completely get cleared out.
And then you get to see the cascading impact of all the other countries
around close8 minutes, 16 seconds
their airspace. The retaliatory strikes airspace over here getting closed down.8 minutes, 20 seconds
And
then of course when we zoom in we've got the Gulf of Hormuz over here
and the closures that happen. I mean it's kind of crazy that I'm able to
put this stuff together. It's really cool to see folksChapter 14: What one person can see with public data
8 minutes, 29 seconds
that
who worked at Loheed Martin and DARPA talk about this. And I mean like I
would echo this too. Like I spent so many years working on Google Maps,8 minutes, 36 seconds
Google
Earth, and a bunch of AR 3D platform stuff with so many talented
engineers and I cannot tell you how insane it is that I was able to do
this over a freaking weekend just by myself.8 minutes, 48 seconds
And
it's interesting, right? Like when I shared my worldview project with
the world last week, the response was phenomenal. But it was interesting
like a lot of people were just saying like8 minutes, 55 seconds
Palanteer
is cooked. And it was to the point where like the Palanteer co-founder
felt compelled to respond noting his company's edge and secure large
scale defense integrations with9 minutes, 4 seconds
classified
data. And that's absolutely true. I mean like some of the stuff they're
doing is phenomenal. And I could only dream of the type of data that
they9 minutes, 12 seconds
have access to. Like of course I don't have the feeds from Fort me. And yet,9 minutes, 16 seconds
it's
kind of insane how complete of a picture you can put together without
proprietary data fusion just by taking advantage of the open- source
intelligence that we all have access to.9 minutes, 26 seconds
I mean, to me, this is more compelling than any journalistic coverage that I've seen of the events that are playing out,9 minutes, 31 seconds
the
order of operations, and the cascading impact that it had across the
region. I mean, it's kind of nuts. And I'm just one person doing this
over the9 minutes, 38 seconds
weekend.
Holy crap, y'all. We are in a new era. And the response to this has
kind of been crazy. like people on the OSENT side that want this, on the9 minutes, 46 seconds
journalism
side that want it, folks that just want to monitor the situation on a
big ass monitor, kind of like what we're doing right now. What's been
particularly crazy is defense tech9 minutes, 54 seconds
founders
hitting me up wanting to partner, saying that the capabilities that I'm
showing are like leaps and bounds in terms of visualization above
systems that the Department of War is10 minutes, 3 seconds
buying.
Like it's this funny thing where the government has access to some of
the most exquisite sensor systems on the planet, like satellites that
can literally capture a license plate or10 minutes, 12 seconds
your
face from space. But the software itself, it sounds like, hasn't
completely caught up. But for the rest of us who want to monitor
something in10 minutes, 19 seconds
the most immersive way possible, feeling like you got access to like a freaking keyhole satellite or Argus is overhead10 minutes, 27 seconds
imagery
system, this is the spot for you. And I'm excited to share. I'll be
opening up World View in April. So stay tuned for that. Everyone that's
beenChapter 15: WorldView launch & conclusion
10 minutes, 34 seconds
emailing me for access to help out, keep it coming. You can find my email online.10 minutes, 38 seconds
And
if you haven't seen my previous video about World View itself, you can
check that out over here. Stay tuned for a lot of cool projects like
this. I've10 minutes, 45 seconds
got
like six other items on the Worldview Road that are going to be
freaking amazing. So, you're going to want to stay tuned for that.
Anyway, if you enjoy this video, please be sure to10 minutes, 54 seconds
hit
that like button, comment, let me know what would you like me to cover
next. Maybe there's going to be a lot more situations to monitor and I
will be11 minutes, 1 second
there with worldview at hand. Bavo signing off and I'll see y'all in the next one. Cheers.
