A repo to collect information about all of the various satellite data available.
| Name | Spatial | Temporal | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Landsat 8 | 30m | 16 day | EarthExplorer |
Global Land Survey (GLS)
- EROS: Earth Resources Observation and Science Center:
- LSR - Land Remote Sensing Program
The USGS Data page is the primary source of information regarding Satellite imagery. This includes numerous declassified satellite datasets and current satellite progrms. I'm not sure if this is the most extensive list.
- AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer): 1-km multispectral data from the NOAA satellite series.
- Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) Advanced Land Imager (ALI) and Hyperion: 10- to 30-meter multispectral and hyperspectral data from the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) Extended Mission. (2000-2017)
- Sentinal 2: The Sentinel-2 MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) acquires 13 spectral bands ranging from Visible and Near-Infrared (VNIR) to Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) wavelengths along a 290-km orbital swath.
Sensors:
- **ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer):** High-resolution (15- to 90-meter) multispectral data from the Terra satellite (2000 to present).
- Landsat ETM+ (Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus): 15- to 30-meter multispectral data from Landsat 7. (1999 to present)
- MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer): Moderate-resolution (250- to 1000-meter) multispectral data from the Terra Satellite (2000 to present) and Aqua Satellite (2002 to present).
- **Landsat 8 OLI (Operational Land Imager) and TIRS (Thermal Infrared Sensor):**The Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) are instruments onboard the Landsat 8 satellite, which was launched in February of 2013. The satellite collects images of the Earth with a 16-day repeat cycle, referenced to the Worldwide Reference System-2. The satellite’s acquisitions are in an 8-day offset to Landsat 7 (see http://landsat.usgs.gov/acquisition). The approximate scene size is 170 km north-south by 183 km east-west (106 mi by 114 mi).
- EarthExplorer: A complete search and order / download tool for all of the data in our Archive.
- LandsatLook: A tool that allows rapid online viewing and access to the USGS Landsat image archives.
- Glovis: A quick and easy browse-based search and order / download tool of all available satellite and aerial data in our Archive.
A complete list of datasets derrived from satellite imagery can be found here.
Provide 30 meter resolution (NIR and SWIR), 100 meters (thermal) and 15 meters (panchromatic).
These iPython Notebooks from PyDataNYC2014 have an excellent explaination of the different bands and how to process them.
The ASTER sensor is mounted on the TERRA satellite and provides high resolution (15m-90m) images in 14 bands including visible to near infrared bands (VNIR bands 1-3), six shortwave infrared bands (SWIR bands 4-9) and five thermal or long wave infrared bands (TIR bands 10-14). ASTER images map surface temperature, emissivity and reflectance of the earths surface. L1A is raw data and L1B is radiometrically and geometrically corrected. Data are available from http://reverb.echo.nasa.gov/reverb/.
Cloud-Aerosal LIdar Pathfinder Satellite Observations: data
Several datasets for CO2 are available from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. The datasets are downloaded in bulk; the 'lite' version is 54GB and the full version is 1TB. The sites offer python scripts if you customize your download selection.
- Global Land Cover Facility: collection of satellite data.
- Digital Globe: this seems to be a private company who built super high resolution sensors for various satellites. There was the Quickbird satellite ran from the early 2000s to 2010ish. That program became Worldview-1, Worldview-2 and Worldview-3. The resolution for visible and multispectral imagery are incredible - less than a meter! Quickbird data can be accessed from http://glcf.umd.edu/data/quickbird/
- Earth Observation Data: I havent spent much time looking over this page but it seems there is a lot of data available.
- NASA Earth Science Data: lots of links. havent explored The National Map seems to be a country-wide geospatial dataset that includes 1 foot resolution imagery, topographic contours, borders and much more.