What is PlatPhorm News?

PlatPhorm News is the public root and demilitarized read-only entry point for the PlatPhorm network. It aggregates public source-attributed stories and exposes the root graph, discovery files, feeds, and trusted-domain directory.

What is the PlatPhorm network?

The PlatPhorm network is the set of trusted and pending *.platphormnews.com services discovered through the root graph, static registry, and sitemap surfaces.

What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)?

MCP is used where it matches a site purpose. The root exposes a local MCP endpoint for public story and network discovery, with protected actions gated by PLATPHORM_API_KEY.

How do I access the PlatPhorm News API?

The API is available at /api/docs and /openapi.yaml with endpoints for stories, feeds, network graph, route compliance, trusted domains, and MCP discovery.

What requires authentication?

Public read-only discovery is open. Mutating, sync, test-triggering, reporting, publishing, and administrative actions require PLATPHORM_API_KEY.

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

Hacker News by 01-_- 170 votes 6347 karma 15d ago

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Do any European space agencies make live weather imagery available at high resolution? I'm looking for a direct link to JPEGs that update regularly, to use with a cron script to use as desktop wallpaper.
I can easily do this for North America using imagery here, for example: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/conus.php?sat=G16 (bonus, imagery is Public Domain).
This direct link provides an updated image every five minutes, with even higher resolution available if you like: https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2...
Every time I revisit this idea and look for western Europe, I find nothing. Or, very low resolution, or some clunky, proprietary "viewer" forced on users. Is there really nothing similar for Europe?

tombrossman 15d ago
In case someone wants NASA firms wildfire 7 day vector tiles : http://serveur.cartes.app/pmtiles/MODIS_C6_1_Global_7d.pmtil...

maelito 15d ago
An other intesting use for this data is OSNIT about war, like recent conflicts it's used to confirm hits on specific places and sort validation for state-media reports

vdfs 15d ago
I'll be forever grateful to the Copernicus project as I among many others use it to track high altitude snow banks before heading out to high alpine runs/hikes. It's such a great tool for our own safety and it's incredible that such value is provided for free.

thefz 14d ago
There's also a good automatic tracker: firewatch.1338.nl/ it's in Dutch but it doesn't really matter. It just puts detected fires on a map.

wolvoleo 15d ago
> Now Copernicus Browser has also added a straightforward “wildfires” visualization layer for Sentinel-2 imagery that went live on August 4.
I feel like an idiot, I can't figure out how to enable it. Currently I use https://www.firemap.live/ for tracking local wildfires (which isn't something I ever needed to track, prior to this year)

Retr0id 15d ago