LANTAW · A living atlas of the Philippines

Nakaakyat ka na ba ng
Pulag?

(Have you climbed Mount Pulag?)

Maybe not. But what if you could still understand its ridges, clouds and stories by moving through the mountain yourself?

Experience Pulag What is LANTAW?

28: live landscapes
2,928 m: Luzon's highest peak
0: accounts or API keys

Satellite terrain view of Mount Pulag and the Cordillera mountains — 16.5982° N · 120.8990° EMount PulagBenguet · Cordillera

Project overview · 02

A 3D field guide to the land that shaped us.

LANTAW is a browser-native atlas of Philippine terrain, water, memory and risk. Every scene combines measurable ground, cited imagery and authored context—then shows where its certainty ends.

28: places to enter
4: evidence types
0: installs required

Read the data and accuracy brief

Taal Caldera rendered as interactive terrain

Volcano · BatangasTAALElevation + authored event

Banaue landscape rendered as interactive terrain

Heritage · IfugaoBANAUETerrain + cultural context

Marikina flood landscape rendered at building scale

Flood · Metro ManilaMARIKINAHazard + urban form

Pag-asa Island rendered with satellite imagery

Island · West Philippine SeaPAG-ASATerrain + Sentinel-2

Agusan Marsh rendered as an interactive wetland landscape

Wetland · MindanaoAGUSANWater + climate context

01 / 05

Volcano · modeled eventElevation, imagery and a disclosed reconstruction of the January 2020 eruption.

16.59° N · Pulag

6.99° N · Apo

14.01° N · Taal

The problem · 03

A photo shows the view.
A map shows the point.
Neither lets you feel the shape.

Stories, coordinates, elevation and risk usually live in separate places. LANTAW brings them into one explorable view, so the land is easier to understand before you ever arrive.

The Philippines is not flat.Our digital stories should not be either.

The build · 04

Public data.
Human context.

LANTAW turns elevation pixels into a mesh, drapes cited imagery over it, then adds the labels and disclosures that explain what you are actually seeing.

Our ruleMeasured, derived and modeled are never presented as the same thing.

Inspect the data, accuracy & terms

Taal Caldera terrain used to demonstrate LANTAW's data layers — Layer 01 · elevationPixels become reliefSRTM-derived heights are decoded from Terrarium RGB tiles and displaced at geographic scale.

28Philippine landscapes

1ordinary web browser

0installs or sign-ins

Built for classrooms · climate literacy · cultural memory · curious Filipinos

Choose a story path · 05

The archipelago,
read three ways.

Follow a geological, cultural or climate thread across places that are usually seen alone.

The live proof · 06

Choose your
way into the land.

Every point opens an authored 3D scene. Hover a marker to preview it, click to step inside.

21° N

4° N

114° E

127° E

Outline map of the Philippine archipelago

volcano / mountain island / water urban / flood

Full collection

All places

28 places

Data trust, in plain language

What is real?
What is reconstructed?

Every LANTAW scene combines several kinds of evidence. These labels tell you how much weight to place on each one.

Read the complete methodology

01 · measured

Values from a source dataset

Examples: SRTM-derived elevation pixels, Landsat imagery and Phil-LiDAR flood-hazard classes. Resolution, date and limits still apply.

02 · derived

Calculated from source data

Examples: the 3D mesh, hill shading, building-to-hazard joins and image tone balancing.

03 · modeled

A disclosed approximation

Examples: unsurveyed bathymetry, sub-resolution islets, cloud decks and stylised eruption replays.

04 · authored

Human interpretation

Labels, story routes and scene narration are researched editorial layers, linked back to their sources.