A ground track simulator for satellite altimetry missions

The AlongTrack Simulator returns the ground track sampling pattern for all of the current and historical altimetry missions.

Install the Matlab package
Read the Getting Started guide
Dive deeper into the class documentation

Ground tracks of two satellites for 5 orbital periods

The figure above is reproduced with only a few lines of code,

ats = AlongTrackSimulator();

fig = figure(Name="Ground tracks",Position=[100 100 500 500]);
[lat,lon,~] = ats.groundTrackForMissionWithName("s6a",N_orbits=5);
geoscatter(lat,lon,1.5^2,"blue","filled"), hold on
[lat,lon,~] = ats.groundTrackForMissionWithName("swon",N_orbits=5);
geoscatter(lat,lon,1.5^2,"red","filled")
legend(ats.missionParameters('s6a').name,ats.missionParameters('swon').name,Location="southeast")

geobasemap landcover