Fires & burning
Slash-and-burn clearing shows up as heat within hours. We catch the thermal signature before the smoke even settles.
NASA VIIRS · ~3h latency
Satellite eyes on the last frontier
Palawan Watch reads the same satellites that circle the planet every few hours — and tells you the moment a forest is cleared, a fire is lit, or a hillside is torn open for mining. No noise. Just the signal that someone needs to know.
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What we watch for
We don't process raw imagery or guess. We listen to the global alert systems that already scan Palawan on every satellite pass — and surface only what matters, for the whole province, from Coron down to Balabac.
Slash-and-burn clearing shows up as heat within hours. We catch the thermal signature before the smoke even settles.
Radar sees through the monsoon clouds that blind ordinary cameras for weeks — so a forest cut in the rain still gets noticed.
Open pits and bare-earth scars stand out against the canopy. New roads cut into intact forest are often the first sign.
Real satellites, right now
Every dot is a real detection from NASA and Global Forest Watch — actual satellite passes over the whole province. Toggle the NASA fire layer to see the raw thermal data the way the satellite records it. This is the same feed that powers your alerts. Sample data — preview
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