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Harnessing the Power of Satellite Data

The CEOS Visualization Environment (COVE) is a browser-based suite of tools for searching, analyzing and visualizing actual and potential satellite sensor coverage.

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User's Guides:

COVE User's Guide

COVE API User's Guide

Welcome to the COVE Portal

The CEOS Visualization Environment (COVE) is a suite of tools for analyzing satellite sensor coverage for more than 100 Earth-observing satellites. The suite includes:

  • Acquisition Forecaster - A tool that provides users with the ability to predict when a satellite has the ability to image a region of interest, and includes options to show the nadir track or filter scenes by orbit direction in user controls
  • Coverage Analyzer - A tool that provides users with the ability to analyze the historical satellite coverage of a region of interest
  • Revisits Calculator - A tool which allows users to analyze estimated satellite coverage and revisits for a region of interest
  • Coincident Calculator - A tool which allows users to determine the coincidence of satellite instrument modes and/or custom constellations observing a location in the same day within a region of interest using historical or predicted scene data
  • Data Browser - A tool that allows users to view the satellite image archives from multiple CEOS missions
  • Data Policy - A database that provides users with information about the data policy and primary archive location for CEOS satellite instruments
  • Country Coverage - A tool that allows users to generate and view GFOI Country Coverage reports for over 70 countries and 3 constellations.
  • Utilities - A set of quick calculation utilities to provide users with a means of estimating various parameters of interest about CEOS satellite missions

COVE Paper

 A paper on COVE was published in  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.   It can be downloaded from IEEE Xplore or directly from COVE.


COVE Video

Presentation given at the virtual Earth Observation Application Forum on October 5th, 2020 as part of the 4th Space Conference of Paraguay. View presentation on Youtube.

The COVE suite was developed by the NASA CEOS System Engineering Office (SEO) for CEOS.  All tools in the suite are publicly available and free to use.