Niger Delta · NASA VIIRS · Solana
The flares burn every night.
Now the record can't be erased.
Satellites pass over the Niger Delta several times a night and see every gas flare by its heat. Flarewatch maps them and fixes each night's observations on Solana, so no company, agency or later edit can quietly change what was seen.
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Map
Persistent flareOther hotspotSize = mean heat (FRP)
Flares by state
Detections per night
Low nights are usually cloud, not quiet flares. Every satellite pass is checked.
Persistent flares
| Place | Nights seen | Mean FRP | Peak FRP | Position |
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Ledger
Each row is one night of raw NASA detections. Verifying downloads the file, hashes it in your browser and compares that hash with the one stored on Solana when the night was recorded. Nothing here trusts this website.
| Night (UTC) | Detections | Sites | SHA-256 | On chain | Check |
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Method
- Source. NASA FIRMS near-real-time detections from three VIIRS instruments (Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21), 375 m resolution.
- Filter. Night passes only, inside 3.8 to 7.0 N and 4.5 to 9.0 E. Flares burn all night; farm fires mostly burn by day.
- Record. Each complete night becomes a file of the untouched detections. Its SHA-256 goes into a Solana program that can write a night once and never again.
- Classify. Detections within 1 km form a site. A site seen on 3 or more nights within 7 days is a persistent flare.
- Honest numbers. FRP is the heat the sensor sees, in megawatts. It is not turned into gas volume or CO2, because that needs a calibration this project does not claim.
The full method is METHOD.md. Its hash is fixed in the registry account, so the rules can't change without a new registry.