Stages 01 – 03

Collection & Tasking

Define the area, find the windows, place the order. Everything upstream of the image, from a polygon on a map to a confirmed acquisition with an operator.

01 · Define

Areas of interest, with the metadata that actually matters

Create any way you work — draw a polygon, rectangle or point on the map, import GeoJSON, KML/KMZ or XLSX, or create one manually.
Rich attributes — buffer, tags, priority, status, request type, client reference, and a full per-AOI action history.
GeoIdentify — reverse-geocoding names the place automatically, single or in batch.
AOI Center — a dedicated management and monitoring panel for the whole portfolio.
Direct map interaction — hover for a mini toolbar, click for the detail panel, double-click to zoom, right-click for a quick order.
Undo / redo — a snapshot stack for every edit, with server-side save and reload.
Export — GeoJSON, one AOI at a time or the whole set.

The AOI Management Center in table view: eight areas of interest with location, geometry type, priority, status, compatible satellite count, area and creation date, beside a detail panel showing the Rotterdam AOI over a satellite basemap.

AOI Management Center · table view with per-area detail

02 · Plan

Every pass, scored before you commit budget

SGP4 propagation on TLEs refreshed twice a day from CelesTrak, over the satellites you selected, for the next seven days.

Pass computation

Elevation, azimuth, duration and maximum elevation for every compatible satellite over the AOI. Heavy propagation runs in a worker so the map never stutters.

Opportunity scoring

Each window is scored on maximum elevation, forecast cloud cover, sun elevation and off-nadir angle — so the shortlist is ranked, not just listed.

Next Pass

Pick any observation point and get the next ten passes over seven days. Global opportunity windows are one click from the header.

Coverage heatmap

Pass and coverage density rendered directly on the map, so gaps in your constellation selection are visible instead of implied.

Sun & terminator

Day/night overlay and solar angle, plus sensor swath corridors drawn as ground footprints.

Analytics & conflicts

Acquisition analytics, operator comparison, quality scoring, and a conflict engine that catches two orders competing for the same satellite window.

3D Sim

A real 3D scene, not a spinning globe for show — live SGP4 orbit traces for up to 20 satellites at once, AOI footprints that light up the instant a pass enters its actual computed window, driven by the same simulation clock as the 2D map.

Live ground tracks

Select a satellite and its ground track and real-time position appear on the map automatically, refreshed continuously off the main thread — not a one-off snapshot.

Catalog: 501 satellites across 29 operators — Planet (142), Spire (70), CGSTL (60), ICEYE (45), HawkEye 360 (36) and 24 more — filterable by resolution (≤30 cm to >1.5 m), sensor type and operator. Real NORAD IDs, CelesTrak-sourced, updated by cron twice daily. Opportunities export to XLSX.

The Global Opportunities panel: 110 passes for Thursday, sorted soonest-first with a max-cloud filter, each pass scored 0-100 with a color-coded bar and showing cloud cover, sun elevation and off-nadir angle — ground tracks for every active satellite drawn on the map behind it.

Global Opportunities · every pass, scored and ranked

3D Sim: a rotatable globe showing live SGP4 orbit traces for a dozen NuSat satellites, each labelled with its name and current latitude/longitude, with a time control bar at the bottom.

3D Sim · live orbit traces, shared simulation clock

03 · Order

Archive search or direct tasking — one workflow either way

Search the archives

Unified multi-provider search returns STAC Feature 1.0 across every connected catalog. Browse archives, build multi-source bundles combining several providers, and keep them in a STAC basket you can refresh or cancel.

Task the satellite

Direct operator tasking for Planet, Capella, Maxar, Spire, Airbus OneAtlas and Satellogic. Submission, delivery download and status polling are handled inside SatView.

Order wizard

Multi-step, with a live cost estimator so budget is visible before confirmation.

Mission Planner

Visual drag-and-drop planning against a running budget, plus a Tasking Optimizer that scores candidate bands across every AOI and satellite and proposes a minimum-coverage plan, weather conflicts flagged inline.

Weather-aware

Open-Meteo forecasts feed straight into planning, so cloud risk is priced in at scheduling time.

Embargoed zones

Requests over embargoed countries are checked automatically before the order goes through, against the zone list your organization maintains.

Order lifecycle

Submitted

Accepted

Planned

Uplinked

Acquiring

Downlinking

Processing

Delivered

Tracked in three views — timeline, kanban board and map — with a global Gantt across every AOI and satellite.

The Tasking Command Center's Gantt timeline: task orders grouped by AOI as colored bars across a scrolling time axis, with AOI and sensor-type filters on the left and quick stats (total orders, active, success rate, total area) at the bottom.

Tasking Command Center · Gantt timeline, grouped by AOI

The Tasking Optimizer: weather and computation parameters on the left (max cloud cover, min sun elevation, analysis period, minimum elevation), a Smart Suggest banner recommending an immediate order, and an optimized minimum-coverage plan of 7 bands across 5 AOIs and 2 satellites, three flagged with a weather conflict.

Tasking Optimizer · minimum-coverage plan across AOIs and satellites

Beyond one order

My Missions — plan a campaign, not just a shot

A mission ties together every AOI, every satellite and a whole date range, with its own lifecycle and a feasibility check before you commit a budget line.

Mission library

Team-scoped, with a real lifecycle — Tentative, Scheduled, Ad-hoc, Active, Completed, Terminated, Archived — not just a flat list of orders.

Feasibility wizard

Four steps — map, per-AOI revisit requirements, then a real feasibility pass (the same SGP4-based pass-finding and revisit-statistics engine behind the tasking optimizer, not a mockup), a budget summary, and an AI-generated plan advisory flagging risks and recommended satellites per AOI.

Simulate in 3D

Every saved mission opens straight into 3D Sim, preloaded with its own satellites, AOIs and dates. Entering a pass window also shows a frozen "onboard camera" inset — real stitched imagery, not a live-rendered photo.

The My Missions library: three missions listed with their lifecycle status (Tentative), AOI count, date window and owner, tags, and per-mission actions — Monitor, Edit Plan, Export, Classify, Terminate, Archive.

Mission library · lifecycle, tags, per-mission actions

A mission's feasibility summary: 2 of 2 AOIs achievable, estimated budget, and an AI plan advisory listing achievable revisit times per AOI, recommended satellites, and risks such as insufficient satellite coverage or cloud cover exceeding the limit.

Feasibility summary · AI plan advisory with risks

A mission replayed in 3D Sim: orbit traces over the globe, a linked-tasking-orders table with 19 orders across 7 AOIs, and a stack of onboard-camera snapshot cards on the right — one real satellite image per AOI as its pass window is entered, each labelled with the satellite name and acquisition time.

Simulate in 3D · onboard camera captures as each AOI's pass window is entered

Connectors

Ten providers wired end-to-end

Each connector handles authentication, catalog search and ordering. Credentials are stored AES-256 encrypted per team, with a connection test and a health cache.

Provider	Sensors	Capability
Airbus Defence & Space	Pléiades, SPOT — optical	Archive search · direct tasking
Maxar Technologies	WorldView — optical	Archive search · direct tasking
Planet Labs	Optical, daily revisit	Archive search · direct tasking
Capella Space	SAR	Archive search · direct tasking
Satellogic	Optical, multispectral	Archive search · direct tasking
Umbra	SAR — 0.16 m	Archive search
ICEYE	SAR	Archive search
BlackSky	Optical — 0.35 m	Archive search
UP42	Aggregator, multi-sensor	Archive search
Copernicus / Sentinel	Optical, SAR — open data	Archive search · free

The image is ordered. Now what?

Delivery is the halfway point — SatView takes the scene through processing and AI analysis next.

Processing & AI Full feature catalog