Full feature catalog

Theme A

Mapping & visualization

How the operational picture is drawn and driven.

• Interactive Leaflet map with switchable basemaps: standard, satellite, hybrid, terrain and relief.
• Geometry tools — circle, square, rectangle and measurement with live dimensions, plus map rotation.
• Time control — ±24 h slider, auto-play, UTC date and time, NOW button, real-time clock.
• Show/hide AOIs from the draw toolbar or the tools panel, with the state persisted server-side.
• Global view button to recenter on the default extent, and viewport persistence across reload, login and workspace switch.
• Coverage heatmap showing pass and coverage density directly on the map.
• Sun and terminator overlay — day/night boundary and solar angle.
• Swath corridors — sensor ground footprints drawn along the track.
• KPI bar — selected satellites, active AOIs, next opportunity, average score.
• Contextual detail panel per AOI, with tabs for details, opportunities and history.

Theme B

Satellite catalog & orbitography

501 satellites, 29 operators, real NORAD identifiers.

• Comprehensive catalog — 501 satellites across 29 operators, sourced from CelesTrak with real NORAD IDs.
• SGP4 propagation for real-time positions and orbit tracks.
• Automatic TLE updates from CelesTrak, run by cron twice a day.
• Filters by resolution (≤30 cm to >1.5 m), by operator, and by sensor type — optical (161), multispectral (127), SAR (85), AIS/maritime (70), RF/SIGINT (51) and hyperspectral (7), plus an IR/thermal filter across them.
• Pass computation — elevation, azimuth, duration and maximum elevation, computed reliably without external dependencies.
• Orbit worker — heavy propagation moved off the UI thread so rendering stays smooth.
• 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 on pass entry, driven by the same simulation clock as the 2D map.
• Operator comparison and quality scoring across the constellation.
• Real-time maritime AIS feed for vessel tracking alongside the satellite picture.

Theme C

Areas of interest

Everything about defining and managing operational areas.

• Creation — draw a polygon, rectangle or point, import GeoJSON, KML/KMZ or XLSX, or create manually.
• Full CRUD — edit, delete, rename, buffer, tag, prioritize, set status and request type.
• AOI Center — a centralized management and monitoring panel for the whole portfolio.
• Map interactions — hover for a mini toolbar, click for the detail panel, double-click to zoom, right-click for a quick order, with permanent interactive labels.
• Per-AOI history and GeoIdentify reverse-geocoding for automatic place naming.
• Undo and redo over a snapshot stack, with server-side save and reload of the AOI list.
• Export to GeoJSON, individually or in bulk.

Theme D

Opportunities & pass prediction

Turning orbital mechanics into a ranked shortlist.

• Per-AOI opportunities — passes of the selected satellites over seven days.
• Opportunity scoring combining maximum elevation, cloud cover, sun elevation and off-nadir angle.
• Opportunity cards grouped by day, sortable by score, by time or by satellite, with a cloud filter.
• Next Pass prediction — pick a point, get the next ten passes over seven days.
• Global opportunity windows reachable from the header.
• XLSX export of the opportunity set.
• Acquisition analytics and a conflict engine for competing windows.

Theme E

Tasking & orders

From wizard to delivered scene.

• Order wizard — multi-step, with a real-time cost estimator.
• Task planner in three views: timeline, kanban board and map.
• Tasking optimizer — scores candidate bands across every AOI and satellite and proposes a minimum-coverage plan, with weather conflicts flagged inline.
• Visual Mission Planner — drag and drop against a live budget.
• Global Gantt timeline across every AOI and satellite.
• Direct operator tasking — Planet, Capella, Maxar, Spire, Airbus OneAtlas and Satellogic.
• Weather-aware scheduling using Open-Meteo forecasts.
• Order placement and delivery — submission, download of deliverables, monitoring hook.
• Status tracking — provider order polling through the eight-step lifecycle.
• My Missions — a team-scoped mission library (Tentative through Archived lifecycle) with a 4-step feasibility wizard (real pass-finding and revisit-statistics engine, not a mockup) and one-click 3D replay of any saved mission, onboard-camera inset included.

Theme F

Providers & imagery search

Ten connectors behind one search box.

• Provider connectors — Airbus (Pléiades, SPOT), Maxar (WorldView), UP42, Copernicus/Sentinel, Planet Labs, Capella (SAR), Umbra (SAR, 0.16 m), ICEYE (SAR), BlackSky (optical, 0.35 m) and Satellogic.
• Unified multi-provider search returning STAC Feature 1.0.
• Archive browser across provider catalogs.
• Multi-source fusion — bundles combining several sources, a STAC basket and a My Bundles tab with refresh and cancel.
• Encrypted provider credentials (AES-256) per team, with a connection test.
• Provider health cache so a degraded connector is visible rather than mysterious.

Theme G

Image processing

What happens to the scene after it lands.

• Visual pipeline builder — assemble a DAG of processing operations in the browser.
• Processing interface for job submission, tracking and results.
• Asynchronous job execution proxied from PHP to the Python FastAPI backend.
• 30+ native Python operations — spectral indices, reprojection, subset, despeckle, mosaic, statistics, band extraction, contrast enhancement, image arithmetic, change detection, cloud mask, morphology, band math, pansharpening, K-means classification, watershed / Felzenszwalb / SLIC segmentation, SAR calibration, SAR speckle filter, connected components, orthorectification, atmospheric correction (DOS), supervised classification, index thresholding, COG and JP2 conversion.
• Orfeo Toolbox and ESA SNAP driven through their CLI and GPT interfaces.
• Processing layers rendered on the map, with a supervised classifier in the interface.
• Cloud-native processing — work directly from a COG URL.
• Super-resolution as a pipeline step.
• Roadmap: SAR Range-Doppler terrain correction.

Theme H

Artificial intelligence & ML

Inference that produces geometry, on your own hardware — object detection, change analysis and segmentation, not just processing operations.

• Object detection — ONNX models run with a sliding window, or classic blob detection. 15 classes out of the box (plane, ship, storage tank, harbor, helicopter, large/small vehicle, roundabout, bridge, sports fields and more). Output: heatmap raster plus GeoJSON, guaranteed in WGS84, with a confidence-threshold slider and per-class counts.
• Change detection — Change Vector Analysis L2 with Otsu thresholding, polygonized into a mask and GeoJSON polygons.
• Semantic segmentation — ONNX models or spectral K-means, producing a labelled raster and a GeoJSON legend.
• Detection display — results rendered as GeoJSON layers on the map.
• Natural-language query — plain English translated into search parameters, using a free hosted model or a paid one.
• Multimodal AI Vision — an LLM describes and answers questions about the scene.
• AI change monitor — change scored against a stored visual baseline.
• Model management — SatView ships with no detection engine baked in; your administrator plugs in an open-source model, or one under its own specific license, uploaded and managed through the Model Manager. SatView never bundles, sells or redistributes third-party AI models itself.
• Inference server — serves ML GeoJSON, lists available models and auto-indexes detections.

Theme I

Autonomous monitoring & alerts

The loop that runs without you.

• Monitoring rules evaluated automatically by a 15-minute cron.
• Rule types — cadence (periodic re-acquisition), retask_cloud (retry above a cloud threshold), retask_quality (retry below a quality floor), and ai_change (AI-detected change), and fire_detected (NASA FIRMS cross-check).
• Pass alerts when a satellite is about to pass over an AOI.
• Notifications — in-app, email and webhook, hardened against SSRF and spam.

Theme J

Content search & intel reports

Making findings findable — across every detection, every job, every acquisition.

• Content-based search over detected and indexed objects, with map and list display, filterable to dark-vessel and recurring-entity candidates.
• Auto-indexing — every detection job feeds the content index without a manual step.
• Intel reports — structured intelligence report generation.
• Professional PDF export — classification banner, cover page and tables.

Theme K

Collaboration & sharing

Because analysis is rarely a solo activity.

• Real-time collaboration over WebSocket, in shared workrooms.
• Collaboration panel — threaded comments with @mentions, team activity and reviews.
• Share links for reports and AOIs, including recipients without an account.
• Workspaces — personal and team, with strict data isolation.

Theme L

Security, classification & imagery restrictions

The controls that make the rest deployable.

• Embargoed zones — a maintained list of countries, each tagged with the regime it derives from (EAR, EMBARGO, ITAR), restricting imagery access by user and by recipient — share links included — with optional per-team rules and CSV export.
• Sensitivity classification — a seven-level ladder drawn from NATO, US and EU practice (UNCLASSIFIED, CUI, RESTRICTED, CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, TOP SECRET, TS//SCI), with optional caveats (NOFORN, SI, TK) and an explicit REL TO releasability list, applied per workspace and shown as a persistent banner.
• Audit log covering every sensitive action.
• Rate limiting per user and per team.
• Encrypted credentials (AES-256) and secrets loaded from environment files — no hardcoded keys anywhere.
• Access rules enforced per role and per team.

Theme M

Administration & users

Running the platform day to day.

• Authentication — login, session heartbeat, single-session exclusion, bcrypt passwords, subscription expiry with grace period.
• Four role tiers — admin (global, every user and team), manager (scoped to the teams they lead: can add team members, can't touch other teams or create other managers), standard (team member, no management rights), and a write-restricted demo account.
• Admin panel — users, teams, satellites, settings, providers, access rules, audit, system health and embargoed zones.
• User and team management, including avatar upload.
• Configurable settings — AI provider, provider API keys, Python backend URL and secret, notifications.
• Billing and quotas — subscriptions, team quotas and usage events.
• Pipeline marketplace for sharing processing chains.

Theme N

API, SDK & interoperability

Driving SatView from outside.

• Public REST API v1 — aois, satellites, orders, search, monitoring, jobs, keys, openapi.
• STAC 1.0 endpoint consumable from QGIS, pystac and any STAC client.
• Python SDK — SatViewClient with resource modules for AOIs, satellites, orders, monitoring, jobs and keys.
• Developer portal shipped with the application: API docs, cURL examples and SDK usage.
• API keys managed per user.

Theme O

User experience

The details that decide whether people actually use it.

• Command palette — Ctrl + K reaches every command.
• Guided tour — an interactive walkthrough for new users.
• PWA and mobile — service worker with a versioned cache, offline support, install manifest, bottom navigation and a responsive mobile layout.
• Time Series Viewer — swipe comparison between acquisitions.
• InSAR viewer for surface deformation.
• In-app notifications and badges for active AOIs and pending items.
• Address and place search in the header.

Theme P

Intelligence & correlation

Cross-referencing detections, orbital data and tasking history that SatView already collects — plus a fused SO2/CH4 + wind atmospheric layer and a growing library of public data overlays.

• AIS correlation & dark-vessel fleet — ship detections matched against real AIS broadcast positions (3 km, ±30 min); a track seen at least twice with no AIS match at all is fused from AIS correlation and recurring-entity tracking into a dark-vessel fleet candidate.
• Recurring-entity tracking — vehicle, ship and aircraft detections clustered by position (150 m) across repeated passes.
• TLE maneuver watch — mean-motion and inclination jumps between TLE updates logged as maneuver candidates.
• Orbital conjunctions (SOCRATES) — CelesTrak close-approach screening against the full catalog, filtered to tracked satellites.
• Reverse tasking — which satellites, across the full 500+ catalog, pass over a given AOI next.
• Archive-vs-new check — searches the last 30 days of archive before a fresh tasking order goes out.
• Atmospheric fusion — Sentinel-5P TROPOMI SO2 or CH4 (methane) fused with NOAA GFS 10 m wind vectors on one map layer, with a live color-scale legend.
• Public data layers — CAMS air quality (NO2), ESA WorldCover land cover, live GDACS disaster alerts, GDELT geocoded news events and VIIRS night-lights change, toggled from the same Intelligence Layers panel.
• Decomposed confidence — detection score, AIS-correlation tier and recurrence count shown separately, never collapsed into one invented percentage.

Theme Q

Safety & hazard simulation

Explosives storage quantity-distance compliance, modeled directly on real satellite imagery of the site — not an abstract CAD exercise.

• Full IATG 02.20 matrix — Hazard Division 1.1 above-ground storage: every building is both a Potential Explosion Site and an Exposed Site toward every other, resolved through the real UN SaferGuard PES×ES quantity-distance table, not a flat generic factor.
• Oriented, draggable building footprints — drawn to scale on the map, turned with a rotate-dial handle and resized by dragging a corner, so the model lines up with what is actually on the ground.
• Directional hazard zones — earth-covered bunkers get distinct front, side and rear cones (150°/135°, per Annex C), colour-coded by severity and recomputed live as buildings move or turn.
• Generic reference receivers — public roads, inhabited buildings, power infrastructure and more, checked against every potential explosion site even before a second building is placed.
• Quick-sketch mode — a simpler four-tier k-factor envelope for a fast first pass, alongside the full matrix tool.
• Saved Drawings — name, organize into folders, and reload safety-distance scenarios and geometry sketches alike.