balticwarden

Help us see more

balticwarden monitors 38 Russian military bases from space β€” for free.
With your support, we can see 20Γ— sharper.

38
bases monitored
10m
current resolution
50cm
with your help
20Γ—
sharper imagery

The problem

We use free Sentinel-2 (10 m optical) and Sentinel-1 (SAR radar) imagery. This detects large-scale activity but cannot count aircraft on runways, identify vehicle types, or detect subtle changes at staging areas.

Commercial providers like Planet Labs offer 50 cm resolution β€” individual aircraft, tanks, and missile launchers become clearly visible. But this costs money.

Current β€” free
10 m
Sentinel-2 optical
βœ“ Large formations Β· βœ“ 5-day revisit
βœ— Cannot count aircraft
βœ— Cannot identify vehicle types
Goal β€” commercial
50 cm
Planet SkySat
βœ“ Count individual aircraft
βœ“ Identify tanks vs trucks
βœ“ Track construction Β· βœ“ Daily revisit

What your money buys

Every euro goes directly to satellite imagery acquisition. No salaries, no overhead β€” balticwarden is a volunteer OSINT project.

Support balticwarden

100% of donations fund satellite imagery acquisition

β˜• Support on Ko-fi βœ‰οΈ Contact for crypto / wire

Transparency

How every euro is spent:

80% Satellite imagery (Planet, Maxar, Umbra SAR)
10% Server infrastructure (Hetzner)
5% API costs (LLM analysis, TTS)
5% Domain, DNS, certificates

What we already provide for free

  • Satellite monitoring of 38 Russian and Belarusian military bases (Sentinel-1 + Sentinel-2)
  • Daily AI-powered change analysis at every site
  • War losses, frontline data, and drone killboards from verified sources
  • Baltic ADS-B military flights and AIS naval/shadow fleet tracking
  • GPS jamming monitoring across the Baltic region
  • Russian economy, sanctions, and public opinion tracking
  • Interactive intelligence map with all data layers
  • Public API, Telegram briefings, and audio podcast

Open Source

Balticwarden's data collection and research methodology are open source. We believe in transparent intelligence β€” every signal traces back to a public source, every algorithm is auditable.

πŸ“‘ Collectors 30 OSINT collectors, enrichment DAGs, client libraries. Radiation, ADS-B, satellite, maritime, RSS, and more. Write a new collector, submit a PR. πŸ“Š Research CTI methodology, threat index mathematics, Jupyter notebooks for backtesting and model development. πŸ”Œ Integrations MCP server, Home Assistant, Grafana dashboards, Telegram bot, CLI, n8n workflows. Connect balticwarden to your tools.

Good first contributions: add an RSS feed, write a collector for a source we don't cover, improve the classifier prompt, add country-specific configs.

balticwarden is an independent, non-governmental OSINT project.
Not affiliated with any military, intelligence agency, or government.
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