Satellite Imagery Sources

Comments focus on sources for high-resolution, cloud-free satellite imagery including Planet Labs, Landsat, Sentinel, and alternatives to Google Earth, discussing resolutions, availability, and free/open access options.

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dharma1 Feb 7, 2017 View on HN

beautiful maps without clouds. Is the 15m/20m per pixel high enough resolution for agricultural analysis?

akldfgj Sep 21, 2012 View on HN

How does Google get satellite view data without suppliers?

joshvm Jun 2, 2014 View on HN

Same kind of thing can be done to satellite imagery:http://www.wired.com/2013/05/a-cloudless-atlas/

shortlived Apr 15, 2021 View on HN

Is the data open source and available without using google earth?

toomuchtodo Jan 3, 2025 View on HN

I assume this data is still in OpenStreetMap and imagery remains available via PlanetLabs and similar commercial remote sensing companies?

gulato Sep 7, 2020 View on HN

maybe https://landsatlook.usgs.gov/ ? if that resolution is fine enough.

kornholi Aug 5, 2020 View on HN

Higher res imagery from Planet: https://twitter.com/planetlabs/status/1291010972983992320

hkchad Oct 24, 2018 View on HN

Planet is Medium Resolution, not high res like in Google Earth. Plant is roughly 4m resolution where google is sub meter resolution. But yes, planet now has access to 100% earth's landmass daily.

kisamoto Sep 24, 2024 View on HN

Currently researching this myself? Have you explored the satellite images from ESA/NASA? They are painful to discover but they're available to download for free and fairly (3-6 months) up to date.

plantain Aug 14, 2022 View on HN

Global, realtime, full definition satellite imagery.http://satview.skysight.io/I have been meaning to spin this off into a SaaS. I don't know of anywhere you can actually get the full definition imagery as a slippy map, everywhere else cuts corners and loses fidelity.Contact me if you would find it useful...