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Collect Earth Online Blog: New Functionality

Get the latest updates on newly released features, and learn how our customers are using Collect Earth Online to drive environmental goals

Dynamic World now available in Collect Earth Online

Collect Earth Online can now easily connect to the Dynamic World dataset as basemap imagery and as a Geo-Dash widget.

Apr 27, 2026

Copying Projects in Collect Earth Online: A Safer Path for Major Updates

Changing projects after data collection begins has risks if done in the same published project. Collect Earth Online now allows users to copy entire projects.

Dec 29, 2025

Introducing More Flexibility for Ongoing Projects in CEO

Collect Earth Online now allows users to add new survey questions and plots to active projects.

Dec 22, 2025

Plot Similarity Assistant: Bringing GeoAI Directly to CEO Users

New in Collect Earth Online: the Plot Similarity Assistant, a GeoAI-powered tool that helps data collectors move through similar plots more efficiently.

Nov 26, 2025

New Imagery Permissions in CEO

Collect Earth Online now allows better control over who can view your institution’s imagery, enabling more flexibility for open and restricted projects.

Nov 19, 2025

Collect Earth Online now offers seamless Google Earth Web integration

Collect Earth Online is now connected to Google Earth Web, where you can view high resolution and historical imagery for your plot area.

Oct 7, 2025

CEO Introduces Online Documentation

We are incredibly excited to announce the official launch of our comprehensive online documentation platform!

Jul 7, 2025

New QAQC Dashboard Enhances Data Quality

The new QAQC dashboard allows institution administrators to easily compare user’s answers and/or connect an external data stream with a project’s survey.

Jun 9, 2025

Collect Earth Online feature additions in 2024

In 2024, the Collect Earth Online team has been busy introducing new features to project creation, the collection page, and data export options.

Feb 20, 2025

How-to: Adding interpretation learning material to your projects

A new Learning Material feature allows project administrators to provide users with quick tips for interpretation, more detailed instructions, and links to external websites and files.

Dec 16, 2024

How-to: Create stratified sampling designs in CEO

Collect Earth Online supports using your own polygon shapefiles to create random and gridded stratified sampling designs!

Dec 2, 2024

How-to: Use a polygon for your Area of Interest

Collect Earth Online supports using polygons for delimiting Areas of Interest! Find out how to use your own shapefile as an AOI.

Nov 25, 2024

Fall/Winter 2023 updates: Imagery, new rules and more!

The CEO team has been hard at work solving bugs and adding new features, including updates to imagery and features in the Geo-Dash, a new rule type, and more.

Feb 5, 2024

Introducing DOIs for CEO

Have you ever wanted to share your CEO data? CEO has now implemented Digital Object Identifiers. You can now share your data with the world.

Jan 30, 2024

Using rules to collect better data in CEO

Did you know that Collect Earth Online (CEO) has many different survey rules to support your data collection efforts? It’s true!

Nov 13, 2023

New video highlights CEO!

Collect Earth Online announces a new video introducing CEO to the world.

Jun 6, 2023

New homepage and video tutorials for CEO

Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new homepage and video tutorials for Collect Earth Online.

Jan 25, 2023

Winter 2022 updates: Survey improvements

The Collect Earth Online (CEO) team is excited to announce the launch of new and improved survey question features that we’ve added to the platform.

Mar 17, 2022

Fall 2021 Updates: Automated Quality Control Tools and More

The Collect Earth Online (CEO) team announces several new features including automated quality control tools, improvements to plot navigation, and more.

Dec 3, 2021

Spring 2021 Updates: OpenStreetMap, XYZ, and more

Collect Earth Online is excited to share our Spring 2021 updates, which include additional quality control tools, new imagery sources, and a broad range of backend improvements.

Mar 26, 2021

Fall 2020 updates: Project editing, basemaps from Planet and more

The Collect Earth Online announces updates to make it even easier for you to monitor changes in land use and land cover.

Mar 11, 2021