Privacy & Credits
Last updated 9 October 2026.
Your data
- Settings stay on your device. Your callsign, grid square, layer choices, pins and any logbook you load are stored in your browser's local storage. They are not sent to our servers.
- Location. "Locate me" asks your browser for your position and stores it only on this device. It is never sent to us or to analytics.
- Analytics. If, and only if, you choose "Allow analytics", Google Analytics records anonymous usage (pages viewed, approximate region, device type). You can change your choice anytime from the side panel ("Analytics choice"). Google's own policy is at policies.google.com/privacy.
- Data providers. To draw live layers, your browser loads some images and feeds directly from the providers listed below (for example NASA, NOAA, PSKReporter and the cloud map). Like any website, they can see your IP address when they serve those files. Other feeds are fetched by our server and cached, so the provider sees only our server.
- We don't sell data, show ads, or use advertising cookies.
Data credits
Airwave Atlas stands on the work of public agencies and volunteer-run amateur radio services. Thank you.
| Base maps | NASA Earth Observatory: Blue Marble Next Generation and Black Marble (public domain) |
| Countries | Natural Earth (public domain), via world-atlas (ISC) |
| CQ / ITU zones | HB9HIL, hamradio-zones-geojson (MIT licence) |
| DX cluster | Data provided by HamQTH.com |
| FT8 paths | PSKReporter.info (N1DQ); MQTT feed by M0LTE |
| WSPR paths | WSPRnet, via wspr.live |
| POTA | Parks on the Air |
| DXCC prefixes | AD1C country files (country-files.com, MIT-style licence) |
| Solar & band data | N0NBH, HAMQSL.com |
| MUF / ionosondes | KC2G (prop.kc2g.com); ionosonde data from GIRO / Lowell DIDBase (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
| Space weather | NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (aurora, D-region absorption) |
| Sun image | Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams |
| Satellites | CelesTrak and AMSAT orbital elements |
| Weather | Temperature, wind, pressure and precipitation from ECMWF open data (CC BY 4.0; ECMWF does not endorse this site); clouds from clouds.matteason.co.uk, which contains modified EUMETSAT data; carbon monoxide, aerosols and population density from NASA GIBS/ESDIS (AIRS, MODIS, SEDAC GPW) |
| Aircraft | Aircraft data © adsb.lol contributors (ODbL 1.0) |
| Earthquakes | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Volcanoes | Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution (volcano.si.edu) |
| Undersea cables | TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
| Shipping lanes | newzealandpaul, Shipping-Lanes dataset (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
NASA and NOAA material is used without implying endorsement. Space-weather, satellite and propagation data are for situational awareness only. Don't rely on them for safety-critical decisions.