Welcome to Collect Earth Online’s documentation!#

Collect Earth Online (CEO) is a free and open-source image viewing and interpretation tool, suitable for projects requiring information about land cover and/or land use. CEO enables simultaneous visual interpretations of satellite imagery, providing global coverage from MapBox and Bing Maps, a variety of satellite data sources from Google Earth Engine, and the ability to connect to your own Web Map Service (WMS) or Web Map Tile Service (WMTS). The full functionality is implemented online; no desktop installation is necessary.

Getting started#

Create your account and get started with CEO.

Register for CEO

Set up your Collect Earth Online account.

setup/register.html
Join an institution

Learn how to join an institution in CEO.

setup/joining.html
Set up an institution

Set up your own institution in CEO.

institution/create.html

Learn more about CEO#

CEO enables users to efficiently collect up-to-date information about their environment and observe changes over time. Learn more about getting CEO to work for you.

Start collecting data

Learn how to collect data in CEO.

collection/index.html
Manage an institution

Get your own institution up and running.

institution/index.html
Create a project

Create your own project and start collecting data.

project/index.html

Get more help or request a feature#

Have questions? Encounter bugs? Get the help you need using the links below.

Want to request a feature that would make CEO work better for you? Contact us at !

:fas:`` Read the blog

Our blog has details on updates and other useful information.

https://www.collect.earth/blog/
Ask a question

Ask a question on the OpenForis forum.

https://openforis.support/tags/collectearthonline/#gsc.tab=0
Improve this documentation

Submit a documentation improvement request through GitHub.

https://github.com/openforis/collect-earth-online-doc
E-mail us

Other questions or bugs? Get in touch.

mailto:support@collect.earth

Supporting Institutions#

Collect Earth Online is part of the Open Foris suite of tools.

CEO was developed by SERVIR—a joint initiative of NASA and USAID, working in partnership with leading technical organizations around the world—and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

With the support of:

In partnership with:

Last updated on Jan 26, 2024.