ISSACHAR puts live public information about violence, disasters and danger on one map, keeps watch over the places you care about day and night, tells your team the moment something changes, and keeps a record of what happened that others can check.
New GroundTruth: vetted records of what happened, and a feed API for partnersEach of these lives in a different place. Checking them all, all the time, is a full-time job for a room full of people — and most organizations don’t have that room.
ISSACHAR brings them together and does the watching for you, so your team can see trouble building and act before it reaches the people you serve.
After an attack come a dozen reports, four death tolls and a list of names. GroundTruth is where your team turns them into one record you can defend: every claim sourced and rated, confirmed and reported figures kept apart, and every change kept for good. Share it with partners at the detail you choose, and let their systems follow it through the feed API.
# Your partners' systems follow every change curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \ "https://issacharanalytics.org/api/v1/feed?from=latest" # → { "op": "upsert", "version": 6, … }
An illustrative record. The figures are invented.
Use one or use them all. Everything flows into the ISSACHAR Command Dashboard, where your team reviews field reports, alerts and records in one place.
Nobody can stare at a map all day. Alerts do it for you. Tell ISSACHAR which places matter and what counts as a warning sign, and it will flag anything new.
Each of these would normally mean a different website or app. With ISSACHAR, they sit together on the same map and update on their own.
ISSACHAR uses respected public sources, the same ones relied on by governments, the United Nations and researchers. Nothing is secret, and everything you see can be traced back to where it came from. A few, such as high-resolution satellite imagery, work through your organization’s own account with the provider.
| What you see | Where it comes from | How often it updates |
|---|---|---|
| Aircraft | OpenSky Network for civilian flights, and adsb.lol or ADS-B Exchange for military aircraft | Every few seconds |
| Satellites overhead | CelesTrak, a public catalogue of satellite orbits | Daily |
| Earthquakes | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | Every minute |
| Fires | NASA fire-detecting satellites | Several times a day |
| Attacks and violence | ACLED, a research group that records political violence around the world | Weekly |
| Terror attacks | Terror Attack Data’s records of past attacks, kept and vetted in Issachar GroundTruth | Historical record |
| Displaced people | The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and the UN’s migration agency (IOM) for each Nigerian state and LGA | Daily |
| Mining sites | Global research databases of mines and who owns them, plus known illegal sites in Nigeria | Reference data |
| Floods, storms and droughts | GDACS disaster alerts (UN and European Commission) and NASA EONET | Every 10 minutes |
| Internet outages | IODA (Georgia Tech), for every country and each Nigerian state, with the cause from Cloudflare Radar when known | Every 5 minutes |
| Satellite imagery | Copernicus Sentinel-2 photos and Sentinel-1 radar, which sees through cloud (European Space Agency) | Every few days for any place |
| Imagery archive | Esri World Imagery Wayback: each detailed satellite image of a place Esri has published since 2014 (with your organization’s own ArcGIS key) | Each new Esri release |
| New high-resolution imagery | Bought through your organization’s own UP42 account, only after an admin approves the price | When you order it |
| World news | GDELT, which follows news outlets worldwide in more than 100 languages | Every few minutes |
| Social media | Public posts on Bluesky, Mastodon and selected Telegram channels | Every few minutes |
| Humanitarian reports | ReliefWeb (run by the UN) and any local news sites you choose to follow | Each time an area is checked |
| Your own reports | Your field staff, through the FieldOps app | As soon as they’re sent |
| Vetted records | Your team and your partners, through Issachar GroundTruth | As soon as they’re saved |
Governments and large companies have whole rooms of analysts watching the world for them. ISSACHAR gives the same kind of awareness to smaller teams, at a price they can afford.
ISSACHAR began in Nigeria, where attacks on farming villages, kidnappings and displacement shape daily life for millions of people. Here is how it helps there.
ISSACHAR is in use today with a small group of partner organizations. If you have people, programs or communities in places where things can change quickly, we’d like to show you what it can do.