How SHAMAL works, availability and help
SHAMAL is an application for interpreting possible indicators in satellite data and imagery. It supports investigation of an area of interest; an indicator is not confirmation of buried metal, a cavity or a structure.
Published by SHAMAL-SAT · Website content updated 13 November 2026
Editorial information, not an independent scientific review or validation of SHAMAL results.
From an area of interest to an interpretation
- Start with an area you are authorized to investigate and its location. Keep private site coordinates and ownership information out of public records.
- Review the satellite-data interpretation and its displayed patterns. The public case gallery shows examples of SHAMAL scan displays supplied by their owners.
- Compare the display with the available site observations. Record the acquisition date, resolution, scale, legend and limitations when known; otherwise mark them unknown.
- Keep alternative explanations open and choose appropriate independent field methods. Imagery alone does not confirm a material, depth, cavity, tank or safe excavation location.
Application availability
The public application download is coming soon. No release date is announced here. This website currently provides the product overview, field records and reading guides; it does not accept scan requests, payments or support messages.
Explore the field guides now, or return to this availability page for published updates. Public field records are examples, not a trial scan of your location.
Explore the website
- Use What It Finds, Field Evidence, About and Guides in the navigation, or choose Skip to field records to bypass the animated journey.
- Open a case to inspect its original scan and available photographs or silent videos. Use the video controls to play or pause; Escape closes the case.
- The large map is an illustrative terrain analogue, not the recorded discovery location. Its map controls change the displayed view, not the underlying evidence.
- Choose a language from the globe control. A guide's language links show only published translations. The field-observation worksheet can be printed from your browser.
Who publishes this information
SHAMAL-SAT publishes this website. Field media and discovery descriptions are supplied by their owners, as identified in each record's provenance note. No named scientific reviewer or independent validation report is provided for these cases.
Dates on reading pages describe website edits. They are not scan dates, laboratory dates or evidence of a new field discovery.