Coverage Workflow

This tutorial configures a basic coverage analysis.

Objective

Compute access from a spacecraft or sensor to a grid of ground points and visualize the result as a scalar coverage field.

Procedure

1. Create a spacecraft with a valid propagator.
2. Optionally attach a sensor with a conical or rectangular FoV.
3. Create a Coverage Analysis asset.
4. Select the source asset.
5. Select global coverage, a bounding box, or an AOI.
6. Choose grid granularity.
7. Set time step and minimum access duration.
8. Run the analysis.
9. Open coverage plots and reports.

Parameter Guidance

Parameter	Starting value	Reason
Time step	30 to 120 s	Good first-pass performance.
Grid granularity	2 to 5 deg	Good first-pass global/AOI density.
Minimum duration	5 to 30 s	Removes tiny sampling artifacts.
Bisection tolerance	1 s	Reasonable interval boundary accuracy.

Interpretation

Coverage heat maps are duration-based by default. Dark or zero regions may mean no access, missing FoV alignment, overly strict constraints, or insufficient time span.