Geolocation
Tools that determine or map the physical location of a place, photo or device.
ADS-B Exchange
Live and historical aircraft tracking built from crowdsourced, unfiltered ADS-B receiver data.
FlightAware
Live and historical flight tracking with aircraft, airport and tail-number lookups; deeper history on paid plans.
Flightradar24
Live and historical aircraft flight tracking.
Google Earth
Google Earth is not a live satellite feed — its imagery is periodically updated historical and aerial photography, not real-time video. For OSINT work it still offers a global historical-imagery timeline, 3D terrain views, distance and area measurement tools, and KML/KMZ support for mapping and geolocation research.
Google Lens
Google's visual search to identify objects, places and text in images.
IPinfo
IP address data service returning geolocation, ASN, company and privacy-detection details for any IP.
MarineTraffic
Live and historical ship and vessel tracking via AIS.
NASA FIRMS
NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System, mapping near-real-time satellite fire and thermal-anomaly detections.
OpenStreetMap
Free, editable world map with rich open geographic data.
Overpass Turbo
Query and visualize OpenStreetMap data by feature and area.
Picarta
AI tool that predicts where a photo was taken from its visual content.
SunCalc
Shows sun position and shadow direction for any place and time, used to verify photo timing.
VesselFinder
Live AIS ship-tracking map with vessel details, ports and voyage history; extended data on paid plans.
WiGLE
Crowdsourced map and database of Wi-Fi networks and cell towers by location.
Yandex Images
Reverse image search noted for strong face and location matching.