docs: address review scope and feature placement for #1036

CHANGELOG.md

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 - Director timeline seeks cross the dateline along the short longitude arc.
 - Recent Imagery refuses missing bounding-box edges instead of interpreting them as zero coordinates.
 
+- Recent Imagery’s exported `setBox` and `searchHls` reject missing, blank or
+  boolean programmatic box edges instead of interpreting them as zero coordinates.
+
 - Treat explicitly current, complete empty vessel coverage as a successful update,
   clearing obsolete contacts while retaining stale or incomplete snapshots.
 

docs/CURRENT-STATE.md

@@ -4449,6 +4449,11 @@ are omitted rather than framing the wrong part of the globe.
 
 ### Recent Imagery (September 2026)
 
+Programmatic boxes passed to the exported `setBox` and `searchHls` operations
+reject missing, blank or boolean edges instead of interpreting them as zero
+coordinates. Valid finite numeric edges remain accepted; the app’s drag tool,
+pins and share links already supply complete boxes.
+
 - The layer sits in the Data Layers panel's Cameras group beside Cameras (CCTV); Mapped ALPR Cameras moved to the Infrastructure group to make room.
 - DATA ▸ **Recent Imagery** (`recent-imagery`, `src/layers/recentImagery/`) lists the last 30 UTC days of imagery for a selected box and drapes the days you pick: HLS S30 (Sentinel-2) and L30 (Landsat 8/9) at 30 m, and the VIIRS NOAA-21 daily overview at 250 m. Keyless and browser-direct: NASA CMR for which days have HLS granules in the box (`catalog.js`, both collections concurrently, paged with `CMR-Search-After` up to 2,000 records each, `truncated` against CMR `hits`), GIBS WMTS for tiles, Worldview Snapshots for thumbnails and exports. Worldview's `Data-Present` header is the only availability signal: GIBS answers an empty tile with HTTP 200, and the JPEG overview would drape black, so a day confirmed empty never drapes.
 - **Box.** SELECT BOX (`src/ui/imageryBoxTool.js`) claims the pointer like Draw, borrows the stock click actions and freezes the camera only mid-drag; USE VIEW takes the camera rectangle; `boxFromPinAt` grows a 10 km box. Boxes must be ≤ 1,000 km a side, on one side of the dateline and inside the Web-Mercator limit (`validateBox`). A refusal (`boxError`, including the tool's own via `reportBoxRefusal`) stays at the top of the panel until a box succeeds; a view over the cap is refused with its size, never shrunk. An oversized box or view (`Box is … km wide · limit 1,000 km`, `View is … wide · …`) sets the hint to `Zoom in or draw a smaller box` and enables ZOOM IN: `zoomToFit()` flies top-down (1.2 s) to the refused box's centre, or the ground under the canvas centre for a view, at the height whose view is about 400 km wide for the canvas aspect and the camera's vertical FOV (`fitViewHeightM`, clamped 5–400 km), and returns that height.
@@ -5326,8 +5331,3 @@ datacenters, dams and the Nepal locator retain that shared credit while displaye
 
 Military fragments stitch by source identity. Different mapped parcels merge only
 when their footprints touch or contain one another, never across a seam tolerance gap.
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-### fix(recent-imagery): reject absent box edges instead of inventing zero degrees
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-Reject absent, blank and boolean edges before numeric conversion while retaining valid finite numbers and numeric strings. Invalid boxes remain explicit invalid results instead of false geometry.