polwarden

Help us see more

polwarden monitors 38 Russian military bases from space — for free.
With your support, we can see 20× sharper.

38
bases monitored
10m
current resolution
50cm
with your help
20×
sharper imagery

The problem

We use free Sentinel-2 (10 m optical) and Sentinel-1 (SAR radar) imagery. This detects large-scale activity but cannot count aircraft on runways, identify vehicle types, or detect subtle changes at staging areas.

Commercial providers like Planet Labs offer 50 cm resolution — individual aircraft, tanks, and missile launchers become clearly visible. But this costs money.

Current — free
10 m
Sentinel-2 optical
✓ Large formations · ✓ 5-day revisit
✗ Cannot count aircraft
✗ Cannot identify vehicle types
Goal — commercial
50 cm
Planet SkySat
✓ Count individual aircraft
✓ Identify tanks vs trucks
✓ Track construction · ✓ Daily revisit

What your money buys

Every euro goes directly to satellite imagery acquisition. No salaries, no overhead — polwarden is a volunteer OSINT project.

Support polwarden

100% of donations fund satellite imagery acquisition

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Transparency

How every euro is spent:

80% Satellite imagery (Planet, Maxar, Umbra SAR)
10% Server infrastructure (Hetzner)
5% API costs (LLM analysis, TTS)
5% Domain, DNS, certificates

What we already provide for free

  • Satellite monitoring of 38 Russian and Belarusian military bases (Sentinel-1 + Sentinel-2)
  • Daily AI-powered change analysis at every site
  • War losses, frontline data, and drone killboards from verified sources
  • Baltic ADS-B military flights and AIS naval/shadow fleet tracking
  • GPS jamming monitoring across the Baltic region
  • Russian economy, sanctions, and public opinion tracking
  • Interactive intelligence map with all data layers
  • Public API, Telegram briefings, and audio podcast

Open Source

Polwarden's data collection and research methodology are open source. We believe in transparent intelligence — every signal traces back to a public source, every algorithm is auditable.

📡 Collectors 30 OSINT collectors, enrichment DAGs, client libraries. Radiation, ADS-B, satellite, maritime, RSS, and more. Write a new collector, submit a PR. 📊 Research CTI methodology, threat index mathematics, Jupyter notebooks for backtesting and model development. 🔌 Integrations MCP server, Home Assistant, Grafana dashboards, Telegram bot, CLI, n8n workflows. Connect polwarden to your tools.

Good first contributions: add an RSS feed, write a collector for a source we don't cover, improve the classifier prompt, add country-specific configs.

polwarden is an independent, non-governmental OSINT project.
Not affiliated with any military, intelligence agency, or government.
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