Where to look for opensource satellite imagery
Sentinel Playground
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Sentinel Playground utilises Sentinel Hub
technology to enable easy-to-use discovery of full-resolution
Sentinel-2 imagery, along with access to the EO data products.
You can browse images from the entire earth’s surface and make simple
queries to restrict scenes to specific date ranges, location and
cloud cover.
World Imagery Wayback
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Wayback is a digital archive, providing users with access to the different versions of World Imagery created over time. Each layer in the archive represents a snapshot of the entire World Imagery map, as it existed on the date it was published. Wayback currently provides access to all published versions of World Imagery, dating back to February 20, 2014.
Google Maps
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Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets, real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bike, air and public transportation.
Google Earth Pro
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Google Earth Pro, can also be leveraged to view its extremely high-resolution satellite imagery, upload or download geospatial data in its native interoperable fileformat (KML), and also find locations (e.g. for simple geocoding).
Zoom Earth
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Zoom Earth us an integrative weather map of the world and a real time hurricane tracker. View Like satellite images of the latest storms and wildfires. Explore weather forecast maps of wind, rain, temperature, pressure and more for your location.
Maps – Bing
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Bing Maps is
a web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft’s Bing suite of
search engines and powered by the Bing Maps Platform framework. Since
2020, the map data is provided by TomTom.
Yandex Maps
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Yandex Maps
is a Russian web mapping service developed by Yandex. The service
provides detailed maps of the whole world, directions and estimated
times of arrival for driving, walking, cycling, kick scooter, and
public transportation navigation.
Mapbox
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Mapbox is an American provider of custom online maps for websites and applications such as Foursquare, Lonely Planet, the Financial Times, The Weather Channel, Instacart In
c.
Global Forest Watch
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Global Forest Watch is an open-source web application to monitor global forests in near real-time. GFW is an initiative of the World Resources Institute, with partners including Google, USAID, the University of Maryland, Esri, Vizzuality and many other academic, non-profit, public, and private organizations.
EOSDIS Worldview
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NASA’s EOSDIS provides the capability to interactively browse over 1000 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and then download the underlying data. Many of the imagery layers are updated daily and are available within three hours of observation – essentially showing the entire Earth as it looks “right now”.
USGS
EarthExplorer
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The USGS EarthExplorer is an online
imagery platform (satellite, aerial, UAV) that allows users to view
satellite imagery of the earth, including live views of the earth.
EarthExplorer is free and has a large number of satellite data
sources, but it is not necessarily the most user-friendly service.
You may need to get used to all of the buttons and menu options
before you can really get started with it.
NOAA
Data Access Viewer
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The NOAA Data Access Viewer is a great tool for those who need to find data from different sources. This tool can be used to obtain information about their environment quickly and easily, without having to scour other websites or databases. Imagery, landcover and elevation/lidar. These images are available in infrared and natural colours.
Bhuvan
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Bhuvan
Indian Geo-Platform of ISRO for
earth observation data and services. It serves data from multiple
space, air and ground-based sensors. The data currently available on
Bhuvan includes the Indian continent, with several features
applicable for global use (e.g., NDVI global coverage).
HERE Map
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As a company, HERE focuses on navigation, traffic patterns, and self-driving cars. But as part of its platform, it delivers satellite maps for drivers. When you head over to HERE, you’ll first notice its squeaky clean interface. As you pan around, you get a range of satellite maps to explore.
Maxar Open Data Program
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The Open Data program is our mission in action. Maxar supports the greater geospatial community by providing the most accurate data and analytics in times of disaster. Organizations working on the front lines increase their impact and effectiveness by having access to this data.