Purpose

Airspace Watch is a situational map for public drone and air-threat awareness. Normal aircraft traffic is shown as context around Finland, selected European countries and Ukraine.

Live map

Airspace Watch brings together drone alerts, drone threats, air threats, UAS geozones and nearby aircraft on one live public map. The map can be used to follow a single drone alert or multiple public drone and air-threat observations around Finland, selected European countries and Ukraine.

Read more about the service:

Finnish service page · English service page

How to use the watch area

The watch area follows active threats around a location you choose.

1. Move the map to the location you want to follow, choose a radius from 10 to 250 km, and select Set.
2. A blue dashed circle shows the saved watch area. The area remains saved in this browser.
3. When an active threat enters the circle, a yellow and red banner shows the threat type, count, nearest distance and location.
4. Select Show on map to focus the nearest threat. Select Clear in the watch-area controls to remove the area.
5. You can optionally subscribe to phone alerts. Android and desktop browsers can receive them in the background; on iPhone, first add Airspace Watch to the Home Screen.

The warning uses available public source data and is not an official emergency alert or safety service.

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Airspace Watch shows public drone and airspace alert data on a live map, with source status and saved observation history.

Development videos

Videos created from this project's development documentation are published on the Jalfrez Factory YouTube channel.
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Sources

Active sources include Airplanes.live aircraft data, verified Finland, Estonia and Poland UAS geozones, experimental geozone sources from France, Germany, Sweden and Austria, and experimental public air-threat data from Ukraine. Source suitability, API status and reuse terms are reviewed individually, with experimental sources checked weekly. Latvia remains disabled until a stable machine-readable source is confirmed.
Airplanes.live · Traficom UAS JSON · Geoportail France Drone Restrictions · EANS UAS GeoJSON · LFV Dronarkartan API · Austro Control UAS Zones · MAPA.UA

Updates

Server background collection runs about every 30 seconds. UAS geozones are cached for about 15 minutes, MAPA.UA air-threat data is cached for about 30 seconds, and place search results are cached for one day.

Source verification

Verified sources are used as primary reference data. Experimental sources are useful for development, but their official API status, machine-use terms, and reliability still need periodic review.

Limitations

ADS-B, UAS geozone and public OSINT feeds can be delayed, incomplete or approximate. Experimental sources are not official production sources and must not be used for safety decisions.

Feedback

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