Situation Picture
Regional situation pictures, threat levels, dossiers on actors and assets, flights and ships.
The situation picture joins geographic data with the news from Retina and the actors from Chimera: regional threat levels, dossiers on actors and assets, flight and ship movements.
As of 8 October 2026: 61,452 infrastructure objects in twelve classes, mapped inside conflict zones rather than worldwide and refreshed weekly from OpenStreetMap. Of the 17 zones, 16 currently hold objects; Gaza came back empty after a failed refresh on 4 October and waits for the next one. Satellite fire detections in those zones are ranked by closeness to that infrastructure, then by fire power. Aircraft and ships are shown as a selection, not as traffic: military aircraft worldwide plus civil traffic inside the zones, and state vessels worldwide plus all traffic inside the zones.
Why this exists at all, and the limits the lab holds itself to, are set out once for all perception instruments on the instruments page.
What comes out
Snapshot 8 October 2026A composite threat level from eight watched regions, each scored from what the layers show there: fires near infrastructure, military news, censorship, anomalies. The score is a reading of the lab's own layers, not an assessment of the world.
Threat level: critical, score 0.93
Region scores, 0 to 1. The composite takes the number of regions at high or critical.
- Iran0.65 high
- Ukraine0.50 high
- Sudan0.50 high
- Russia0.50 high
- Gulf0.50 high
- Gaza0.45 high
- Black Sea0.40 high
- East Med0.30 elevated
What drives Iran: med mil news 18, fires conflict 11, censorship high 9, tda mild 0.42.
Live counters, and what they count
| counter | shown | means |
|---|---|---|
| Fires near infra | 500 of 500 | Of the 500 fires the map is capped to. The full count inside the zones is 5,522. |
| Fires in conflict zones | 500 of 500 | Of the 500 fires the map is capped to. The full count inside the zones is 5,522. |
| Anomalies crit/high | 92 of 302 | Anomaly cells at critical or high severity, of all cells in the last 15 minutes. Volatile by design. |
| Active alerts | 8 of 8 | Regions with an active sitrep alert at high or critical, of all regions scored. |
Infrastructure catalogue, by class
- oil storage15,230
- HV substations15,109
- power plants11,213
- refineries8,270
- military sites5,704
- airports2,926
- dams1,948
- rail yards291
- depots285
- ports213
- data centres160
- nuclear sites103
The analysis deck, six tabs
| Situation | The composite threat level, four live counters, the region chips and the entity bursts. |
| Regions | The eight watched regions as a scoreboard; a click opens the region's dossier and its fires. |
| Actors | Actors from the actor graph, powerblocks and the signed tension matrix; threat-actor galaxy on demand. |
| Signals | Anomalies, radar ship contacts, earthquakes, live conflict cells, GDELT events. |
| Narratives | Active storylines, entity bursts, top entities and the latest articles from the news perception. |
| Infrastructure | Infrastructure by importance and activity, and the sites with a fire next to them. |
On screen: the analysis deck
Captured 2 September 2026The analysis deck, tab Situation, 10:37. Threat level critical at 0.70 with three regions at 0.5; the four live counters; the region scoreboard with the Black Sea opened, showing what drives its score: four fires in the conflict zone, a high censorship reading, a mild topological signal. Right of it the conflict feed and the entity bursts of the last day. Tab Regions, 10:38. The scoreboard on the left, the dossier of the selected region on the right: its factors, the events there, the infrastructure with a fire next to it (power plants and substations, with distance and time), and the articles. The map dock follows the selection. Tab Actors, 10:39. The powerblocks as the engine finds them from the news, each with its members and their activity, and the tension matrix: which blocs read as allied, which as in conflict. Below this, cut from the picture, the actor list with profiles. Tab Narratives, 10:42. The storylines Retina is tracking, with cohesion and article count; the top entities with trend and tone; the names bursting right now; the latest articles. The storyline names are German: the machine names them in the lab's language, that is on the list. Tab Infrastructure, 10:47. Significance against activity as a matrix, class by class; attention by region, relative to each region's own norm; and the list of infrastructure with a fire nearby, with class, distance and radiative power in megawatts.