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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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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.