Creating tasking requests

Tasking requests capture all the required data for a satellite to perform a payload Activity and process the data products.

There are two different types of tasking available, either Manual or Automated.

Creating a new request

Firstly, create a new tasking request by either clicking the “New request” button or opening the dropdown menu labelled “Existing”, and select “New”:

Whenever a tasking request is created, it will be automatically associated to the user's current Project. More details on creating projects can be found in Creating Projects.

Selecting a region of interest

For each type of tasking request, the first thing you need to do is select a region of interest (ROI). This can be done by either manually drawing or uploading a polygon to define your ROI.

Example of drawing an area of interest:

Example of an uploaded ROI. ROIs can be uploaded in either GeoJSON or KML format. Currently only geometries of type “Polygon” are supported:

Naming region of interest

Each ROI can be named by editing the “Region” placeholder:

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