Satellite Visualizer

A satellite visualization panel plugin for Grafana based on CesiumJS.

Settings

1. Set Access token with a Cesium ion access token (security best practices).
2. (optional) Set Asset ID with ID of the glTF asset stored in Cesium ion.

Data

This plugin needs a data series with 8 columns:

Column #	Description
1	Time
2	Longitude (deg) / x_ECI (m) / x_ECEF (m)
3	Latitude (deg) / y_ECI (m) / y_ECEF (m)
4	Altitude (m) / z_ECI (m) / z_ECEF (m)
5-8	Orientation in inertial frame (x, y, z, s quaternion)

Development

To start the development environment container:

make dev

Access the started Grafana instance at http://localhost:3000.

Release

To create a new release, run the following to bump the version in package.json:

npm version minor

Then push the tagged commit, to let the CI handle it:

git push origin main --follow-tags

References

• CesiumJS
• Resium