INFORMATION SCALECHANGING SCALE…VIEW / READYING
INFORMATION SCALE 1 : 25,000 COLLECTION RELATIVE
1 : 250,000SITE 1 : 100,000POSITION 1 : 25,000COLLECTION 1 : 2,500RECORD 1 : 500DETAIL

Semantic scale — changes information depth, not geographic map scale.

FIELD / INSTRUMENT / LIMIT

Lab

Observe, compare, and reason through space.

OBSERVATORY

Observe changing systems and representations through declared sources, models, projections, time windows, and spatial extents.

Orbital Commons — real instrument output
LiveSatlas · Orbit · Real-time

Orbital Commons

The active satellite catalog as one navigable field: browser-worker propagation, instanced rendering, selection, orbit trace, and ground trace.

LEO / MEO / GEO
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Earth in Change — real instrument output
LiveRemote Sensing · Time · Observation

Earth in Change

Recent Earth observations become a temporal sequence rather than a fixed basemap: the date is part of the image, not metadata outside it.

t → image
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Geographic Flow Laboratory — real instrument output
InstrumentMovement · Flow · Trajectory

Geographic Flow Laboratory

One workbench compares continuous vector fields, aggregate origin–destination networks, timestamped trajectories, and Lagrangian releases without pretending they are the same geometry.

field / OD / x(t)
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Earth Pulse — real instrument output
LiveSeismicity · Live Feed · USGS

Earth Pulse

A live earthquake field rendered on a self-owned world view. Magnitude, depth, and recency become a changing pulse rather than a generic alert map.

M / km / t
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Image → Trace — real instrument output
InstrumentRaster · Abstraction · Vector

Image → Trace

A small figure engine that turns a field-like image into contours, regions, and traces. It asks when an image begins to act like a map.

image → trace
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World as Relation — real instrument output
Atlas BaseWorld · Geometry · Scale

World as Relation

A world field treated as authored geometry rather than a borrowed basemap. Projection changes the visible relation; geography begins where the choice becomes explicit.

world / relation
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Water as Spectrum — real instrument output
InstrumentWater Colour · Ocean Optics · Remote Sensing

Water as Spectrum

An interactive water-colour theory instrument. Change water and atmospheric state, sample a synthetic TOA signal, then invert it with deliberately right or wrong aerosol assumptions.

λ / a / bb / Rrs / ρTOA* / Rrs_est
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PLAY / SPATIAL REASONING

Practice location, boundary, adjacency, and path reasoning through direct geographic feedback.

Locate — real instrument output
GameDistance · Bearing · Cities

Locate

A location exercise that returns error as distance and direction. The aim is not recall alone, but calibration: where did your mental map bend?

φ / λ
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Zone — real instrument output
GameBoundary · Shape · Adjacency

Zone

Find a named country from its position among neighbors. Shape matters, but relation to the surrounding field matters more.

∂A
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Trace — real instrument output
GameAdjacency · Route · Topology

Trace

Cross the world by shared land borders. A route is not a line drawn over space; it is a sequence allowed by topology.

A ↔ B
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Project — real instrument output
PlayPredict · Transform · Invariant

Project

Predict first, then drag the representation and watch the same geography change appearance.

predict / transform / reveal
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Light — real instrument output
PlayLight · Ocean Color · Mechanism

Light

Break the light path. Remove scattering, backscatter, or reflection and observe what remains.

source / path / observer
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Swath — real instrument output
PlayRemote Sensing · Sensor Geometry · Resolution

Swath

Change altitude, field of view, and detector sampling. See why wider coverage does not come free.

altitude / FOV / GSD
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EXTENT / RESOLUTION / LIMIT

Every instrument declares what it can see — and what it cannot.

OPEN-SOURCE BUILDS

Engineering tools behind the practice.

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