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EarthOne Explorer UI🔗

An Overview of the EarthOne Explorer UI🔗

What is Explorer?🔗

EarthOne Explorer is your first stop in discovering what geospatial data you have available to you — an interactive web mapping interface with a familiar GIS-style look and feel.

When you first log into Explorer, you will be dropped into an empty map view:

Explorer empty map view

Finding Data Sources🔗

To search and add new data to your Explorer viewport, click Add a new Layer in the top left of the application:

Add a new Layer button

This will bring up a tabular view of data sources, or Products. You can toggle between Core Products — ones maintained by EarthDaily:

Core Products view

Or view My Products — data sources owned and maintained by you and your organization:

My Products view

Note that raster data sources are denoted by the image symbol, while vector data sources by a vector symbol.

Product Metadata🔗

To search for a particular data source, you can type the product name or keyword into the search bar.

For example, "Sentinel-2" brings up the various processing levels of Sentinel-2 data available on the EarthOne Catalog. Note the accompanying metadata such as:

  • Description
  • Temporal acquisition information
  • Spatial resolution(s)
  • Bands

Sentinel-2 product metadata

You can also view the expanded Band metadata in its own tab:

Band metadata tab

Adding Data to the Map🔗

By clicking Add to Map from the Product view, this will add the layer in question to the Explorer interactive web map:

Add to Map button

Layer added to map

You can add as many data sources into your Explorer viewport as you'd like. This also works for vector layers!

Working with Imagery in Explorer🔗

By default, Explorer will try to set the date range to the latest available imagery. You can change the visualized date range and inspect available coverage through the General Settings dialog and enabling the Coverage Chart option:

General Settings and Coverage Chart

My Viewport is Cloudy — now what?🔗

A common filter to apply to temporal stacks of imagery is by cloud fraction. Explorer enables basic image filtering wherever that property is available, such as in Sentinel-2:

Cloud fraction filter

Image Metadata🔗

Clicking on an individual image, outlined in different colors per layer, will bring up the image properties:

Image properties panel

Visualization Options🔗

Expanding the Bands dropdown will bring the option to visualize single-band with a specified colormap, or to create false-color RGB composites:

Bands visualization options

Miscellaneous Explorer Features🔗

Clicking Jump to Latest Image will pan your viewport and set the date range to the latest acquired image in the product:

Jump to Latest Image