01State
What runs today
29 services. 1 run on these pages now; the rest say what they wait on. A state comes from the platform's code, routes and tests, never from a catalogue entry alone.
- Live on these pages
- 1 · Runs in the visitor's browser on risksindex.com now.
- Built and tested in the platform
- 9 · Implemented in the Foundry with tests that name it; reaches these pages or the enterprise API when its condition is met.
- Built in the platform
- 7 · Implemented in the Foundry; no test naming it was found.
- Waiting on a deployment or licence
- 11 · Code exists, but it needs a deployed engine, a data build or a licence admission before it can serve.
- Held by the licence register
- 0 · The licence register does not admit the source for this use.
- Not built
- 1 · Registered as a capability only; no implementation exists.
- Open on these pages
- No sign-in and no key; runs in the browser.
- Open public API
- The open, read-only NXS-GRX (canonical data, provenance and risk) public API.
- Enterprise and public-sector plans
- Through api.risksindex.com with a the Foundry account and an entitled plan; vector tiles need the Enterprise or public-sector plan.
- The Foundry tenants
- Inside the Foundry for tenants; reached from enterprise plans as the platform admits them.
02Maps
Maps and basemaps
4 services. Interactive maps on real basemaps, in globe and 2D views.
| Service | What it does | Access | State | Licence register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk Observatory mapMapLibre style spec · GeoJSON | Country values, hazard fields and context facts on one map in globe and 2D views, with inspector, time scrubber and legend. Live events and imagery connect through NXS-GRX.Open the observatory | Open on these pages | Live on these pages | naturalearth.admin0.110mapproved |
| Self-hosted vector basemapPMTiles · MVT · OpenMapTiles | OpenStreetMap basemap in the OpenMapTiles profile, served as PMTiles from the platform's own map data. | Open public API | Waiting on a deployment or licenceNeeds the platform map-data build. | osm.planet.omt.self-hostedapproved with conditions |
| Terrain and elevationTerrarium · COG | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 terrain tiles in Terrarium encoding, and point elevation sampling. | Open public API | Waiting on a deployment or licenceNeeds the platform map-data build. | copernicus.dem.glo30approved with conditions |
| Administrative boundariesGeoJSON · ISO 3166 · UN M49 | Country, ADM1 and ADM2 boundaries with a per-country licence gate and parent-child hierarchy. | The Foundry tenants | Built and tested in the platform | geoboundaries.gbopenapproved with conditionsocha.cod-abapproved with conditions |
03Tiles
Vector tiles
4 services. Risk products as vector tiles at country, subnational and hexagon resolution.
| Service | What it does | Access | State | Licence register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NXS-GRX risk product tilesMVT · H3 · ETag | Published risk products as vector tiles keyed to ISO3, geoBoundaries ADM1 and ADM2, or H3 cells, with withheld features counted in response headers and strong ETags.GET /api/v1/public/grix/risk-products/tiles/{metric}/{z}/{x}/{y}.mvt | Open public API | Built and tested in the platformReaches these pages when the public API admits risksindex.com. | — |
| Tenant risk product tilesMVT · H3 | Your scope's spatial risk products as tiles, with product history and replay after a correction. | Enterprise and public-sector plans | Built and tested in the platform | — |
| Hexagon lens tilesMVT · TileJSON 3.0 · H3 | Factor values on H3 cells or support polygons as tiles, with TileJSON descriptors. | The Foundry tenants | Built and tested in the platform | — |
| Tile enginesPMTiles · MVT · TileJSON 3.0 | PMTiles range serving and Martin vector tiles from governed tables, behind a tile product catalogue. | The Foundry tenants | Waiting on a deployment or licenceNeeds the tile engines deployed. | — |
04Raster
Raster and imagery
4 services. Satellite imagery, cloud-optimised rasters and Earth-observation datacubes.
| Service | What it does | Access | State | Licence register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satellite imagery overlaysWMTS · XYZ tiles | Six NASA GIBS layers: VIIRS true colour, GOES-East GeoColor every 10 minutes, IMERG precipitation every 30 minutes, night lights, TROPOMI nitrogen dioxide and MODIS vegetation index. | Open on these pages | Waiting on a deployment or licenceConnects through NXS-GRX when its public API admits risksindex.com; pages never call providers directly. | nasa-gibsapproved with conditions |
| Cloud-optimised raster tilesCOG · WebMercatorQuad · TiTiler | Tiles, previews and statistics from COGs, including Sentinel-2 Level-2A and Copernicus DEM. | The Foundry tenants | Waiting on a deployment or licenceNeeds the raster engine deployed. | copernicus.sentinel2.l2a.cogsapproved with conditionscopernicus.dem.glo30.cogsapproved with conditions |
| STAC mosaic tilesSTAC · COG · WebMercatorQuad | Tiles from a STAC search, mosaicked on the fly. | The Foundry tenants | Waiting on a deployment or licenceNeeds the raster engine deployed. | — |
| Earth-observation datacubesSTAC · COG | Temporal composites over versioned EO datasets. | The Foundry tenants | Built and tested in the platform | — |
05APIs
Catalogues and standard APIs
4 services. Open standards for finding, processing and indexing geodata.
| Service | What it does | Access | State | Licence register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STAC APISTAC API Core | Collections, items and search over the platform's spatial catalogue. No STAC conformance claim is made. | The Foundry tenants | Built in the platform | — |
| OGC API ProcessesOGC API Processes | Processes and asynchronous jobs. No OGC conformance claim is made. | The Foundry tenants | Built in the platform | — |
| OGC API DGGSOGC API DGGS 1.0 · H3 | Zones and zone data on discrete global grids, including H3. | The Foundry tenants | Built in the platform | — |
| 3D Tiles and point clouds3D Tiles · COPC | 3D tilesets and range-streamed COPC point clouds. | The Foundry tenants | Waiting on a deployment or licenceNeeds 3D data built for the platform. | — |
06Science and GeoAI
Spatial science and GeoAI
9 services. Exposure, geostatistics, change detection and machine learning on geodata, each a registered model registry method.
| Service | What it does | Access | State | Licence register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exposure on H3 cellsH3 · GeoJSON | Gridded or feature exposure (population, assets) aggregated to H3 cells, conserving totals.Method risk.capability.exposure-asset-intelligence.population.exposure.v1 · kernel exposure.grid_to_h3_cells | Enterprise and public-sector plans | Built and tested in the platform | worldpop.populationapproved with conditionsjrc.ghslapproved with conditions |
| Geostatistical interpolation | Ordinary kriging from point measurements to a surface, with prediction variance.Method risk.capability.universal-mathematics-statistics.geostatistics.v1 · kernel geostatistics.ordinary_kriging | Enterprise and public-sector plans | Built and tested in the platform | — |
| Spatial autocorrelation | Moran's I for clustering in a mapped variable.Method risk.capability.universal-mathematics-statistics.spatial.statistics.v1 · kernel spatial.morans_i | Enterprise and public-sector plans | Built in the platform | — |
| Spatially blocked validation | Blocked cross-validation metrics with a leakage check, so a model is not scored on its neighbours.Method risk.capability.scientific-assurance.cross.validation.v1 · kernel spatial_validation.blocked_metrics | Enterprise and public-sector plans | Built and tested in the platform | — |
| Conflict exposure on H3 cellsH3 | Population and assets within reach of conflict events, on H3 cells.Method risk.capability.geopolitical-conflict-human-security.conflict.exposure.v1 · kernel conflict.exposure_h3 | Enterprise and public-sector plans | Built in the platform | — |
| Change detection from imageryCOG | Spectral-index differencing and damage classes between two comparable scenes. | The Foundry tenants | Built and tested in the platform | — |
| GeoAI labellingGeoJSON | Label projects with prompt-based segmentation, review and export. | The Foundry tenants | Built in the platform | — |
| Earth-observation foundation models | Fine-tuned foundation models for segmentation and detection. The licence register admits no model weights today, so requests are refused. | The Foundry tenants | Waiting on a deployment or licenceNeeds model weights admitted by the licence register. | — |
| Spatial risk fieldsH3 | Recipes that compile hazard, exposure and vulnerability into H3 fields you can query. | The Foundry tenants | Built in the platform | — |
07Live
Live feeds and nowcasting
4 services. Events and near-real-time observations, shown with their source and fetch time.
| Service | What it does | Access | State | Licence register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural eventsGeoJSON | Open NASA EONET events from the past 20 days: wildfires, storms, volcanoes and floods. | Open on these pages | Waiting on a deployment or licenceConnects through NXS-GRX when its public API admits risksindex.com; pages never call providers directly. | nasa.eonet.eventsapproved with conditions |
| EarthquakesGeoJSON | USGS summary feeds of magnitude 4.5 and above. | Open on these pages | Waiting on a deployment or licenceConnects through NXS-GRX when its public API admits risksindex.com; pages never call providers directly. | usgs.earthquake.summary-feedsapproved with conditions |
| Precipitation and cloud nowcast imageryWMTS | IMERG precipitation every 30 minutes and GOES-East GeoColor every 10 minutes, as imagery. | Open on these pages | Waiting on a deployment or licenceConnects through NXS-GRX when its public API admits risksindex.com; pages never call providers directly. | nasa-gibsapproved with conditions |
| Nowcasting models | Short-range forecasts from observations. Only a health nowcasting capability is registered; no kernel exists.Method risk.capability.health-epidemiology.health.nowcasting.v1 | Enterprise and public-sector plans | Not built | — |
08A run
From imagery to a mapped risk product
Imagery passes the licence gate before analysis, scenes are made comparable before differencing, and no-data stays no-data all the way to the tiles.
on: area of interest submitted
From satellite imagery to a mapped risk productGraph
01Find
02Find
03Find
04Prepare
05Analyse
06Analyse
07Check
08Check
09Deliver
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Timeline
Job0 h5 h10 h15 h20 h25 hTarget
Area and questionYouinstant
Search the catalogueNXS-GRX run serviceinstant
Licence gateNXS-GRX run serviceinstant
Make scenes comparableNXS-GRX run service1 h
Detect changeNXS-GRX run service1 h
Exposure on H3 cellsNXS-GRX run service1 h
Spatial checksNXS-GRX run serviceinstant
Analyst reviewAnalyst1 d
Publish as tiles and mapNXS-GRX Platforminstant
End to end on the longest path: about 1.1 d of proposed target service levels. Gates wait for the people named; bars with a fading end have no fixed length.
Steps
- Area and questionFind · You · instantDraw or upload an area, or pick ADM units · Event window and baseline window · Question: what changed, who and what is exposedGeocoder and entity matcher
- Search the catalogueFind · NXS-GRX run service · instantSTAC search by area, time and cloud cover · Scenes from the same sensor and processing level · Scene list kept with its queryEarth-observation pipelineGeocoder and entity matcher
- Licence gate approvalFind · NXS-GRX run service · automaticEach source checked in the licence register for the use · Rows under legal review are refused · Attribution and obligations attachedLicence register
- Make scenes comparablePrepare · NXS-GRX run service · 1 hourSame grid, CRS and resolution · Cloud, shadow and no-data masked · Processing-baseline offsets correctedEarth-observation pipeline
- Detect changeAnalyse · NXS-GRX run service · 1 hourSpectral-index differencing · Damage or change classes with thresholds stated · Masked pixels stay no-data, never zeroEarth-observation pipelineTested model kernels
- Exposure on H3 cells matrix ·Analyse · NXS-GRX run service · 1 hourPopulation and assets aggregated to H3 · Totals conserved across resolutions · Change overlaid on exposureH3 exposure kernelsTested model kernels
- Spatial checksCheck · NXS-GRX run service · automaticCRS and units checked end to end · Withheld features counted · Accuracy assessed on held-out areasVerification engineProvenance (W3C PROV)
- Analyst review approvalCheck · Analyst · 1 dayMap and figures reviewed · Limits and confidence written · Approve or send backUsage and SLO monitoring
- Publish as tiles and mapDeliver · NXS-GRX Platform · instantVector tiles at ADM and H3 · Map, legend and attribution with the product UNI · Lineage to every scene and sourceVector tilesPublic cut APINS-1 UNI catalogue
Artifacts
| Artifact | Job | Who | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area of interest | Area and question | You | Find |
| Scene list | Search the catalogue | NXS-GRX run service | Find |
| Licence decision | Licence gate | NXS-GRX run service | Find |
| Analysis-ready pair | Make scenes comparable | NXS-GRX run service | Prepare |
| Change raster | Detect change | NXS-GRX run service | Analyse |
| Exposure cells | Exposure on H3 cells | NXS-GRX run service | Analyse |
| Check report | Spatial checks | NXS-GRX run service | Check |
| Review record | Analyst review | Analyst | Check |
| Spatial risk product | Publish as tiles and map | NXS-GRX Platform | Deliver |
| Tiles | Publish as tiles and map | NXS-GRX Platform | Deliver |
DoneIn progressWaiting for approvalQueuedApproval gateMatrix jobTest jobDeploymentYou are here
09Sources
Geospatial sources and their licences
Public availability is not permission. Live data reaches these pages only through NXS-GRX, which admits a source only when the licence register approves it; rows under legal review or prohibited stay off.
| Source | Title | Licence state | Commercial use | First obligation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| naturalearth.admin0.110m | Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 Countries (bundled same-origin GeoJSON) | approved | allowed | Courtesy attribution "Made with Natural Earth" |
| osm.planet.omt.self-hosted | Nexus self-hosted OpenStreetMap planet basemap (Planetiler OpenMapTiles profile, PMTiles) | approved with conditions | allowed | OSM attribution must remain visible (© OpenStreetMap contributors) |
| osm.versatiles.shortbread | VersaTiles OSM Shortbread vector tiles (OSM-derived COP catalog) | approved with conditions | allowed | OSM attribution must remain visible |
| osm.openfreemap.liberty | OpenFreeMap Liberty / planet vector tiles (OSM-derived style lineage; public host not used at runtime) | approved with conditions | allowed | OSM attribution (OpenFreeMap credit only where its style assets are redistributed) |
| overture.buildings | Overture Maps buildings theme (GeoParquet) | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution on every use: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Overture Maps Foundation, plus the per-source credits the release lists (Esri Community Maps contributors CC BY 4.0, Google Open Buildings CC BY 4.0) |
| overture.divisions | Overture Maps divisions theme (administrative divisions and boundaries; GeoParquet, ODbL family) | approved with conditions | allowed | © OpenStreetMap contributors. Available under the Open Database License. (and Overture Maps Foundation) |
| microsoft.global-ml-building-footprints | Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints (permissive family) | approved with conditions | allowed | Keep the CDLA-Permissive-2.0 licence text with redistributed data |
| google.open-buildings.v3 | Google Open Buildings v3 polygons (used under CC BY 4.0, permissive family) | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution: Google Open Buildings (CC BY 4.0); cite Sirko et al. 2021 |
| geoboundaries.gbopen | geoBoundaries gbOpen administrative boundaries API (ADM0-ADM5) | approved with conditions | allowed | Cite geoBoundaries (Runfola et al. 2020) and each boundary's original source (boundarySource) |
| ocha.cod-ab | UN OCHA Common Operational Datasets, Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB, P-codes) on HDX | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution: OCHA COD-AB via HDX, the dataset_source and the licence on every product (CC BY-IGO: credit, link, indicate changes) |
| copernicus.dem.glo30 | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (30 m global DSM), self-hosted Terrarium terrain archive | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution line required where the data paints (see the register row). |
| copernicus.sentinel2.l2a.cogs | Sentinel-2 Level-2A surface reflectance COGs (AWS Open Data, Earth Search catalogue) | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [year] |
| esa.worldcover.10m | ESA WorldCover 10 m land cover (2020 / 2021) COGs | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution: (c) ESA WorldCover project [year] / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [year] processed by ESA WorldCover consortium |
| copernicus.clms.land | Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products (CORINE, high-resolution layers, global land products) | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution: Generated using European Union's Copernicus Land Monitoring Service information (add the dataset DOI where one exists) |
| copernicus.ems.rapid-mapping | Copernicus Emergency Management Service rapid mapping activations and products | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution: Contains modified Copernicus Emergency Management Service information [Year] (or: Generated using Copernicus Emergency Management Service information [Year] when not modified) |
| copernicus.glofas | GloFAS global flood forecasts and reanalysis (CEMS-Floods, Early Warning Data Store) | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution: Generated using Copernicus Emergency Management Service information [Year] (or: Contains modified Copernicus Emergency Management Service information [Year]) |
| ecmwf.era5.cds | ERA5 reanalysis via the Copernicus Climate Data Store (C3S / ECMWF) | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution: Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information [Year] |
| jrc.ghsl | Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL, European Commission JRC) | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution: GHSL - Global Human Settlement Layer, European Commission JRC, [release] (cite the release reference publication) |
| worldpop.population | WorldPop gridded population and REST API (University of Southampton) | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution: WorldPop (www.worldpop.org), University of Southampton |
| nasa.eonet.events | NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET) v3 events | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution: NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET) |
| noaa.goes.aws | NOAA GOES-16/18/19 ABI and GLM on AWS (NOAA Open Data Dissemination) | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution: Source: NOAA |
| noaa.mrms.aws | NOAA Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor System (MRMS) on AWS (NOAA Open Data Dissemination) | approved with conditions | allowed | Attribution: Source: NOAA |
| usgs.earthquake.summary-feeds | USGS Earthquake Hazards Program GeoJSON summary feeds for the Maps live earthquake layer | approved with conditions | allowed | Acknowledge "U.S. Geological Survey" wherever events are shown |
| nasa.firms.area-active-fires | NASA FIRMS near-real-time active fire detections (area API, VIIRS / MODIS) for the Maps live fire layer | legal review required | legal review required | Cite NASA FIRMS (LANCE / EOSDIS) wherever detections are shown |
| jrc.global-river-flood-hazard-maps | JRC global river flood hazard maps (flood depth by return period, European Commission JRC) | legal review required | legal review required | Legal/IP records licence name, version, URL, attribution text and allowed channels before any use |
| ucsb-chc.chirps | CHIRPS quasi-global gridded precipitation (UC Santa Barbara Climate Hazards Center) | legal review required | legal review required | Legal/IP records licence name, version, URL, attribution text and allowed channels before any use |
| gadm.boundaries | GADM database of Global Administrative Areas | prohibited | prohibited | Never ingest, render or redistribute |
| eox.sentinel2-cloudless | EOxCloudless / Sentinel-2 cloudless mosaics (all years), BLOCKED (commercial use needs an EOX licence) | prohibited | prohibited | Never use without an EOX commercial licence |
| Map service | Provider | Review state | Terms |
|---|---|---|---|
| nasa-gibs | NASA (Global Imagery Browse Services) | approved with conditions | Terms |
Connects through NXS-GRX when the public API admits risksindex.com; pages never call providers directly.
10Formats
Open formats and standards
MVT
Vector tiles of risk products, boundaries and basemaps
PMTiles
Single-file tile archives served by range request
TileJSON 3.0
Tile set descriptors
COG
Cloud-optimised GeoTIFF rasters read by range
STAC
Catalogues of scenes, items and assets
H3
Hexagonal cells for exposure, fields and tiles
OGC API
Processes and DGGS
GeoJSON
Features, events and boundaries
3D Tiles and COPC
3D tilesets and point clouds
WMTS and XYZ
Imagery tiles
11Honesty
What these states do not mean
- Built and tested means code and tests exist in the platform; it is not a claim that the service is deployed or operating.
- The STAC and OGC APIs make no conformance claim to STAC or OGC.
- No GeoAI model runs today: the licence register admits no model weights.
- Live feeds are indicative events with their source links; they are not authority warnings.
- Snapshot of the platform:
nexus-foundry@31a753f76.