In Norse mythology Odin keeps two ravens: Huginn, thought, and Muninn, memory. Each dawn they are sent out across the world to gather what has happened, and each evening they return to his shoulders to report it.
Huginn and Muninn fly every day over the great earth; I fear for Huginn that he may not return, but I fear more for Muninn.
Grímnismál, Poetic Edda
The graver loss is the second one. Thought can be resumed; memory, once gone, takes the foundation of wisdom with it.
This project is named for the second raven. It surveys a live planet — aircraft transponders, ship beacons, orbital elements, seismographs and public cameras — and reports what is actually there. None of it is classified; all of it is already being broadcast. What it does beyond observing is remember: when a feed goes quiet, the last known state is retained and served with its age declared, rather than reporting an empty world.
Muninn is a project by Emanuele Pagani. It is built on God's Eye View by Bilawal Sidhu, the open-source project from which it was branched.
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