Regardless of what piqued your interest in finding up-to-date satellite imagery in the first place… I hope you find what you’re looking for. If you decide you’re going to pay for imagery, do your own homework some of the best deals you find are from independent pilots who will fly aerial or drone imagery for you on an hourly basis!
Last time I checked, there were over 20 different browsers for looking at Landsat 8 imagery alone and that was more than three years ago! There are also plenty more aerial and satellite imagery providers-I simply listed some of the largest ones. There are plenty of other places to get access to some of the datasets I mentioned above-especially the free ones. If you’re new to this world, the first thing to know is that you’re almost certainly going to have to speak with a salesperson-there’s no such thing as simple, transparent pricing in the satellite and aerial imagery world (at least not yet).įor slightly lower resolution but higher frequency imagery:įor aerial imagery in the U.S. We run into this situation quite frequently at Azavea, so we’ve gotten to know many of the providers over the years. Lastly, there’s the difficult case of needing high resolution, recently collected imagery (especially if you plan to derive commercial works from that imagery and need access to the raw files). That imagery can also be downloaded from either Earth on AWS or the Earth Engine Catalog-you can also browse when the most recent imagery was collected for each state (and at what resolution) at this free online coverage map hosted by ESRI. In the U.S., the USDA’s National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) captures 1m/pixel or better imagery for the entire contiguous United States once every other year. Make sure you familiarize yourself with the data before downloading a lot of it!įor high-resolution aerial imagery, your options are much more limited. A warning: these are very large files and the imagery itself is lower resolution than what you might expect to see on a typical web map.
For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies. Pre-Fetching, Caching, or Storage of Content.Įxcept as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. Instead, the tileįor information about response message headers, see There is no response message from the server in this example. Zoom level 15, with x and y coordinates of (6294, 13288).Ĭurl " ?session= YOUR_SESSION_TOKEN &key= YOUR_API_KEY" -output /tmp/example_tile.png You get satellite tiles by making an HTTPS GET request, as shown in theĬurl " z/ x/ y ?session= YOUR_SESSION_TOKEN &key= YOUR_API_KEY &orientation= 0_or_90_or_180_or_270" Example tile requestĬonsider the following code example, that requests a single satellite tile at The following code sample demonstrates a typical session token request for Specify the map options with your tile requests. You can begin making satellite tile requests after you get a session token.īecause the session token applies to the entire session, you don't have to Images captured by both satellite and airborne cameras, and they deliver Satellite image tiles are a form of orthophotography.