AOI is an acronym for “Area of Interest.”
Knowing your desired AOI will help you in planning your data collection with satellites to ensure you get the right technology in the right place and at the right time.
In satellite imagery ordering and tasking workflows, an AOI describes the location for which you are requesting satellite imagery.
In geospatial terms, there are three ways of describing locations. These are points, lines, and polygons. A point is a pair of GPS coordinates, a line is a set of these coordinates forming a line on the Earth’s surface, and a polygon is a set of coordinates that creates a closed shape.
Whether tasked or archived, you need to outline a location on the Earth when ordering satellite data through a satellite imagery marketplace or geospatial data platform.
