Real places, read from space
Every few hours Dyaan runs a real Earth-observation analysis over a place in the news — a drained lake, a burning hillside, a flood-prone valley — and writes up exactly what the satellite record shows. No opinions, no estimates: every number here is counted from public data, and you can reproduce any of it in the tool.
Dubai’s coastline, redrawn: land reclaimed from the Gulf (1984–2021)
1,046 ha of surface water net lost
The Palm Jumeirah and the wider Dubai shoreline, measured from space: how much open Gulf water became dry land across nearly four decades, counted pixel by pixel from the JRC satellite record.
Forest lossTwo decades of forest loss on the Amazon frontier
49,127 ha of tree cover lost since 2001
Hansen tree-cover loss in Rondônia, year by year, counted at 30 m from the public record.
Land coverWhat Jakarta is made of, class by class
84.4% of the area is built-up
ESA WorldCover 10 m: how much of the metro is built-up, water, cropland and green — every share a pixel count.
Land coverWhat Dubai is made of, class by class
64.7% of the area is bare / sparse
ESA WorldCover 10 m over Dubai: how much of the emirate is built-up, bare desert, water and green — every share a counted pixel, not an estimate.
Surface waterBengaluru’s lakes, three decades on
59 ha of surface water net gained
The Bellandur–Varthur belt, measured: surface water gained and lost since 1984, counted from 30 m satellite pixels.
Surface waterDelhi’s surface water, read from space (1984–2021)
311 ha of surface water net gained
How much open water the capital has gained and lost across nearly four decades — counted, pixel by pixel, from the JRC satellite record rather than estimated.
WildfireNorthern California’s active fires right now
149 active fire detections in the last 24 h
Live thermal detections from NASA FIRMS — refreshed every time this story runs.
Flood exposureWhere Kathmandu’s water would run
3.8% of the area sits on low ground
A terrain flood-exposure screen over the valley — the low ground monsoon runoff collects toward, read from a 30 m elevation model.