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Satellite Revisit Gap (2D) — Deforestation Detection Latency

Interactive 2D top-down ecological-monitoring simulator: a forest clearing spreads across a grid while a satellite ground track revisits on a fixed cadence, cloud cover randomly blocks passes, and a minimum-mapping-unit threshold decides when the clearing finally counts as a confirmed detection. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom.

Ecology & Conservation Biology2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This is the flat, top-down sibling of the 3D satellite-monitoring simulator: the same forest-clearing grid, the same fixed-cadence satellite pass schedule, the same cloud blackout chance and minimum-mapping-unit detection threshold, redrawn as a map you can pan and zoom instead of orbit. Tune the revisit interval, cloud probability and detection threshold to see how they compound into the real-world latency between when a clearing begins and when a monitoring system actually flags it.

⚙ Under the hood

A 2D top-down sibling of the 3D satellite-monitoring simulator: a forest clearing spreads across a 20x20 grid while a satellite ground track sweeps overhead on a fixed revisit cadence, cloud cover randomly blocks passes, and a minimum-mapping-unit threshold decides when the clearing finally counts as a confirmed detection. Drag to pan and scroll to zoom the map.

ecologyremote sensingdeforestationsatellite monitoringenvironmental science2D

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install