Acquisition Planner

Everyone working with satellite data plans around the next acquisition. An agronomist deciding when advice can be given, an emergency coordinator deciding whether to wait for radar, an analyst committing to a delivery date, all of them need the same fact, and all of them currently assemble it by hand from mission calendars and orbit predictions, one area at a time.

The planner shows a calendar of forthcoming passes over the user’s area for every mission the platform can read, with the orbit direction, the local time of acquisition, how much of the area the swath actually covers, and, for optical missions, the cloud forecast for that hour, so an entry says “probably usable” rather than merely “a pass exists”, which is the distinction that decides whether anyone plans around it.

It is not only a view. Any service on the platform can be attached to a future acquisition: run flood mapping on the next radar pass; run the drought profile on the next optical acquisition below a cloud threshold. The job waits, watches and fires on its own when the condition is met, which turns “check back in a few days” into something the platform does on the user’s behalf.