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Computational answer engine that reports historical weather, sun position, distances and astronomical data for any place and time — a common OSINT lookup pivot.

Free meteorological data archive serving METAR, SYNOP and TAF observations from thousands of stations worldwide. Standard source for historical weather verification.

Photographer's planning app providing precise sun, moon and Milky Way positions for any place and time. Widely used by chronolocation analysts.

Free open-source planetarium. Reproduces the night sky for any date, time and location — essential for verifying star, moon and constellation positions in imagery.

Bellingcat-developed open-source web tool that constrains the geographic regions where a photographed shadow could have been cast at a given local time.

Customisable mapping platform with vector tiles, satellite imagery and routing APIs. Common substrate for interactive OSINT investigation maps.

Hosted 3D-tiles platform for streaming global terrain, buildings and imagery into web viewers. Backbone of many open 3D investigation experiences.

Free open-source 3D creation suite. In OSINT used for assembling reconstructions, rendering shadow simulations and aligning 3D models with reference photos.

Lightweight 3D modeller commonly used to reconstruct buildings, rooms and urban environments from photographs for incident reconstruction.

Free open-source desktop GIS — the OSINT analyst's default tool for layering vector, raster and satellite data, terrain analysis and viewshed calculations.