Nine layers, one airspace view

Most trackers give you a basemap and some aircraft. AeroScope draws nine independent data layers under the traffic, each from a different source with its own cadence, coverage and failure modes. These pages explain what each one actually measures, and where each one lies to you.

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GNSS interference Derived by AeroScope from ADS-B NIC and NACp fields A hexagonal map of where aircraft are reporting that their own satellite navigation has degraded.
Weather radar AeroScope Ground radar precipitation, composited worldwide and drawn under the traffic.
Infrared clouds AeroScope Thermal infrared imagery from geostationary weather satellites, showing cloud tops day and night.
Aviation hazards AeroScope International SIGMETs: polygons drawn by human forecasters warning of en-route weather severe enough to matter to every aircraft.
Active fires AeroScope Satellite thermal anomaly detections from the last 24 hours.
Earthquakes AeroScope Magnitude 2.
Satellites Orbital elements from GNSS constellations and crewed stations, propagated in your browser from published orbital elements.
Airports AeroScope Airports, heliports and seaplane bases from a community-maintained public domain directory, with runway geometry when you zoom in far enough.
Ships (AIS) AeroScope Live vessel positions from two open national feeds.

Three things that are true of all nine

They are not time synchronized. Aircraft positions are seconds old. Radar is 10 to 20 minutes behind. Infrared is typically 30 to 60 minutes behind. Fire detections can be three hours old. SIGMETs are warnings about the next few hours. Reading a single screen as one moment in time is the most common mistake, and it is ours to flag rather than yours to discover.

They measure three different kinds of thing. Radar measures scattered power. Infrared measures emitted radiance. A SIGMET is a human forecaster's judgment. Presenting all three as "weather" flattens a distinction that matters when they disagree.

Blank never means clear. Every layer has coverage holes, and no two layers have the same ones. Radar has no ocean. Infrared has no Europe or Africa. AIS has only two countries. The GNSS layer only exists where aircraft fly. Absence of data is the default state of most of the map, and each page says exactly where its own blind spots are.