Global Monitor

Illustration only. Scores and figures drawn in this artwork — conflict intensity 8.7, extreme weather 6.2, flood risk 7.1, drought risk 5.6, population 668.45 M, displaced 2.37 M, temperature anomaly +1.32 °C, sea level +24.6 cm — are not live telemetry. They belong to the picture, not to the dashboard.

This tree (Nonarkara/globalmonitor, branch main) is the AsiaWatch build: asia.nonarkara.org (Cloudflare Pages project asiawatch). The GlobeWatch flagship is a separate tree / branch classic at globalmonitor.nonarkara.org. Static backup: nonarkara.github.io/globalmonitor.

Global Monitor is an independent, open-source-intelligence map for reading conflict, climate, mobility, and policy signals as one operating picture. This checkout is the Asia / Indo-Pacific (AsiaWatch) camera of that suite — not the GlobeWatch flagship. It is built by Dr Non Arkaraprasertkul (architect, anthropologist, smart-city practitioner at Thailand’s depa) with Associate Professor Dr Poon Thiengburanathum (public ranking and urban-performance methodology). The live surface is a React + Vite + MapLibre dashboard with a thin cache API; it is funded for public research by PMUA, with supporting organisations depa / MDES / Smart City Thailand and execution by Axiom and ReTL. It is not a ministry product.

Sister flagship: Nonarkara/globalmonitor-v3 (GlobeWatch at globalmonitor.nonarkara.org).

The civic gift is the method, not a brand. Fork it. Keep the sources visible. Prefer a system a non-engineer can still open.

• Fork the method. Each theatre (Middle East, Southeast Asia / Indo-Pacific, Thailand) is a camera and a set of open feeds, not a secret model. If you need a different country, a quieter map, or Thai-first copy, start from this repo rather than from a screenshot.
• Civic transparency. A closed intelligence product asks for trust. An open one earns it or gets corrected. Every live number should carry a source and an age; a figure without either is treated here as a defect.
• Human-scale systems. Google Sheets when Sheets will do. Public NASA tiles when a paid satellite contract would only prove cleverness. Fix the plain way, so someone who is not the author can still understand it.
• Bilingual where it matters. The product’s privacy notice includes a Thai PDPA summary. This README is English; Thai legal text lives in the About / Legal modal. เชิญให้แยกสาขาวิธีการ — เปิดแหล่งข้อมูลให้ตรวจได้ และบอกให้ชัดเมื่อตัวเลขเป็นการวัดจริงหรือเป็นแบบจำลอง

Dr Non’s own origin note is in the in-app Papers tab (src/data/originEssay.js): the work exists so a person deciding whether it is safe to send someone somewhere has observations to look at, not only a headline.

Use this for lawful research, education, and situational awareness. Do not present the output as official intelligence, military guidance, or a government product.

• Measured vs modelled. FIRMS thermal detections, AIS ship reports, ADS-B aircraft, USGS quakes, and NASA GIBS tiles are observations (with their own biases and gaps). Escalation composites, TimesFM event-count forecasts, AlphaEarth year-to-year change, and bundled JSON briefings are modelled or compiled. Label them that way when you republish.
• Not an official government product. GitHub describes this repo as an independent digital-economy and geopolitical OSINT map — not a depa product. No file in this repository documents a government endorsement. Do not add one in a fork unless that endorsement actually exists and is recorded here.
• Attribute upstream data. Conflict events, satellite detections, market prices, flights, and vessels come from third parties listed in src/data/dataSources.json. Each keeps its own licence, latency, and limits. Axiom Overwatch AIS is documented in-repo as CC-BY 4.0. Open Data Provenance from Tools → Data health on the live map, or read docs/HOW-IT-WORKS.md.
• Do not operationalise a cache. Feeds fail silently; stale values are served on purpose; absence of signal is not absence of danger. Cross-check primary sources before any decision that requires verified official information.

Open data is fetched, cached with an expiry, and drawn on a map. Provenance travels with the payload.

flowchart LR
  feeds[Open feeds] --> fetchers[Fetchers]
  fetchers --> cache[Cache + TTL]
  cache --> api["/api JSON"]
  api --> ui[Map + panels]

Open feeds in this tree include ACLED, NASA FIRMS/GIBS, AIS, ADS-B, USGS, RSS, and the others listed in src/data/dataSources.json. Fetchers live in server/lib (local Node) and functions/_lib (Cloudflare Pages). Cache replies are live or stale, never silent; /api payloads carry X-Tech-* provenance headers into React + MapLibre.

Same-origin /api/* in production (Cloudflare Pages Functions, project asiawatch, asia.nonarkara.org). Locally, Vite on port 5180 proxies /api to a Node cache on 4000. Optional keys in .env.example enrich feeds; the UI still renders public fallbacks and snapshot files when keys are missing. Only endpoints that exist in server/ and functions/ are documented.

Longer architecture, source list, and Cloudflare caveats: docs/HOW-IT-WORKS.md.

Requires Node 20 (CI and Docker) and npm. No private endpoints are required.

git clone https://github.com/Nonarkara/globalmonitor.git
cd globalmonitor
npm install
npm run dev:stack

That script starts:

• frontend — Vite, http://127.0.0.1:5180
• API cache — Node, http://127.0.0.1:4000 (/api proxied)

Copy .env.example to .env.local only if you have your own keys from those public providers (Copernicus, AirLabs, OpenSky, ACLED, FIRMS, and so on). Do not invent or scrape keys. Leave the file empty and the dashboard still runs: public NASA GIBS tiles, snapshot GeoJSON, and browser-side fallbacks are in the tree.

Useful commands that actually exist in package.json:

Cloudflare Pages is the documented host. GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/cloudflare-pages.yml) and npm run deploy:pages both deploy dist/ to project asiawatch. This workflow must not deploy over Pages project globalmonitor (the flagship on branch classic). A fork should point wrangler at your Pages project. Bind optional secrets in the host dashboard, never as VITE_* variables.

Sister public maps (separate repos, not this tree): GlobeWatch, MEM by NON, War Monitor.

Patches and forks: CONTRIBUTING.md. Vulnerability reports: SECURITY.md.

The software in this repository is released under the MIT License. Copyright © 2026 Non Arkaraprasertkul / Axiom X Co., Ltd.

This project is an independent digital-economy and geopolitical OSINT map. It is not a depa product, not a ministry product, and not official government intelligence.

Third-party datasets keep their upstream licences (ACLED, NASA FIRMS/GIBS, AIS, ADS-B, and the rest listed in src/data/dataSources.json). MIT covers the code and docs in this tree, not those feeds. Attribute upstream data when you republish.

Authorship of the method and the live dashboard remains with Dr Non Arkaraprasertkul and Associate Professor Dr Poon Thiengburanathum. Contact: non@nonarkara.org.