GodsView Ops Center Guide: Incidents and Video Wall

The GodsView Ops Center is a free global incident dashboard at /ops. It pulls earthquakes, disaster alerts, severe weather warnings, outbreak notices, internet outages, exploited software flaws, news headlines and emergency squawks into one register, merges reports that describe the same event, and scores each incident from 0 to 100.

Below: what each panel shows, which sources feed it, how merging and scoring work, what the country risk index measures, and four workflows, from a newsroom morning check to a control-room wall.

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What is the GodsView Ops Center?

The Ops Center is one desk inside GodsView AI, the hosted live map. Where the main map shows moving things (aircraft, ships, satellites), the Ops Center shows incidents: discrete events someone may need to act on or report. It has five panels:

• Incident register: a sortable list of every incident in the current filter, with severity, category, place and age.
• Operational map: incidents plotted by location, with toggles for a density view, your watch areas and military aircraft.
• Trends: a stacked chart of new incidents per hour (or per 3 hours, or per day on longer windows), with breakdowns by type and region.
• Country risk: a ranked table that combines US travel advisory levels with current incidents.
• Monitor: source health, watch areas and alerts, and a forecasts tab of prediction markets.

Key figures above the panels count active, critical, high and new-this-hour incidents, countries affected, and the verified share (an agency report or two or more outlets).

Which sources feed the Ops Center?

Each source is polled on its own schedule, and the Monitor panel shows whether it is live, stale or unavailable and when it last updated. Source type matters because it drives confidence.

Headlines and posts only become reports when their wording matches one of eleven incident categories, from conflict to aviation; a summit story with no incident language is dropped. For the wider picture of layers and refresh rates across GodsView, see the methodology and data sources page.

How does the Ops Center merge duplicate reports?

One earthquake can arrive as a USGS event, a GDACS alert and twenty headlines. The Ops Center groups these into one incident with three rules:

1. Shared keys. Reports carrying the same identifier join directly: a storm name, a CVE number, a GDACS event id, or the same country in IODA.
2. Space and time for hazards. Agency and sensor reports of the same category merge when they are close enough. Earthquakes must fall within 180 km and 3 hours and differ by no more than 0.6 in magnitude; storms 450 km and 4 days; floods 350 km and 7 days; fires and volcanoes 60 km. Two differently named storms never merge, however close.
3. Headline similarity for media. News and social reports merge when they share enough distinctive words (a word-overlap score of at least 0.34), sit in the same country and arrive within 36 hours of each other.

A merged incident keeps the most precise location among its reports (exact point, then area centroid, then country centroid). The detail drawer lists every source report with its UTC time and a link to the original.

How is the 0–100 incident score calculated?

Each report is scored from the measure its source already publishes; the incident takes the highest report score plus a corroboration bonus.

Report scores

• Earthquakes scale with magnitude, from 28 below M5 to 92 at M7.5 and above. A PAGER red alert lifts it to at least 90, orange to 75; a tsunami flag, shallow depth or 1,000+ felt reports add points.
• GDACS alerts start at 85 for Red, 62 for Orange and 28 for Green.
• NWS alerts start at 72 for Extreme and 52 for Severe; products such as a tornado emergency score at least 84.
• Emergency squawks score 85 for 7500 (unlawful interference), 62 for 7700 (general emergency) and 42 for 7600 (radio failure).
• Headlines start at 22 and add points for terms such as casualties, strikes or explosions. News reports are capped at 88 and social posts at 45.

Corroboration and confidence

Each extra independent source adds 4 or 5 points, up to 15. Editions of the same newsroom count once.

The final score sets the severity band:

Confidence is graded separately, from the mix of source types inside the incident:

So a strong headline can be high severity but only "Reported". Every incident also shows its score factors (for example "M6.4 · shallow · 3 independent sources") so you can see why it ranks where it does.

How do filters and watch areas work?

The filter bar sits under the search box and applies to every panel at once:

• Time window: 6 hours, 24 hours, 72 hours or 7 days.
• Region: ten regions, from North America to Southeast Asia & Oceania, plus Global / Maritime.
• Watch area: limit the view to a saved circle on the map.
• Minimum severity: all, medium and above, high and above, or critical only.
• Source type: Agency, Sensor, Media, Social.
• Category chips, each showing a live count.

Search matches titles, summaries, countries and outlet names, and filters are remembered in your browser. You can save the map view as a watch area, or create one from an incident's drawer. Alerts on new incidents (globally at 80 or more, or inside a watch area) are part of GodsView Pro.

What does the country risk panel measure?

The country risk index is a 0–100 composite. It takes the current US State Department travel advisory level (1 Exercise normal precautions, 2 Increased caution, 3 Reconsider travel, 4 Do not travel), multiplies it by 14, and adds the weight of current incidents in that country, capped at 44. Severe incidents weigh much more than minor ones, because each incident counts by the square of its score.

So a quiet Level 4 country and a Level 1 country with an active disaster both surface near the top. Clicking a country opens a copyable brief with the advisory's risk factors, a link to it and every current incident.

How do you export incidents and situation reports?

The Export menu works on whatever your filters show:

• Copy situation report: a plain-text brief with a UTC timestamp, the window, counts by severity, the top 10 incidents with score, place, time and confidence, a by-region summary and the list of live sources.
• Download CSV: one row per incident with first and last seen (UTC), severity, score, confidence, grade, category, country, coordinates, source count, source names and URLs.
• Download JSON: the same incidents with every underlying source report, its type and its time.

Inside an incident, "Copy brief" gives a one-incident note with coordinates and up to 12 timestamped source lines.

What is the Ops Center video wall?

The video wall at /ops/wall is a live video multiviewer with 1, 2×2, 3×3 or 4×4 tiles and these presets:

• Global news channels, or news by region (Europe, Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia-Pacific, Americas).
• World cameras showing live video.
• Cameras at active situations, picked near the places where severe recent incidents cluster.
• Cameras inside each of your watch areas.

Tour mode turns the page every 45 seconds. Presentation mode goes fullscreen with only the preset name and UTC time on screen, and an offline tile hands its slot to the next source. From any located incident, Cameras nearby opens the wall on public cameras around that spot. News channels play on the free plan; public camera tiles need Pro, as they do across the app (see the camera map).

Open the video wall

Four workflows you can copy

Newsroom morning check

Set the window to 24 hours and minimum severity to high, then read the register top down, checking each incident's confidence and sources. Copy the situation report into your team channel so everyone works from one timestamped list. The newsroom page and the guide to verifying breaking news with live maps cover the next steps.

NGO disaster watch

Select the earthquake, weather, flood and wildfire categories and choose the Agency source type, so only incidents with GDACS, USGS, NWS, EONET or Copernicus EMS reports remain. Save watch areas around the places you operate, and read the earthquake map guide before acting on magnitudes alone. For safety decisions, always follow the official agency.

Travel-risk check

In the country risk panel, search for the destination and open its brief: the advisory level and risk factors sit next to current incidents. Copy it into the trip file. Teams in this area may also want the insurance and risk overview.

Control-room TV wall

On a large display, open /ops/wall, choose 3×3, pick a regional news preset or "Cameras at active situations", turn on tour mode and press Present. A second screen can show /ops with the map expanded. This pairs well with a common operating picture setup.

What can the Ops Center not tell you?

The register is only as complete as its sources. NWS alerts cover only the United States, headlines without clear incident wording are skipped, and keyword scoring can misjudge tone. Media and WHO incidents locate to a country centroid, so the dot may be hundreds of kilometers from the event. A "Confirmed" label means an agency or sensor reported the event, not that every detail in every linked article is accurate.

Freshness ranges from about a minute (squawks) to six hours (advisories). Read the guide to how live conflict maps work and what OSINT is for verification habits, and compare tools in the roundup of live OSINT maps.

Where to start

Open /ops and watch the sources come online in the Monitor panel. Then narrow by region or category, open the top incident, and read its score factors and source list. The exports and the video wall then fit into whatever routine your team already has.

Start with the Ops Center