Yeah, ESA is on the right track here and the data (e.g. we do image segmentation on S2 data) is great. However handling the data is non-trivial, as e.g. Sentinel-2 (an earth observation satellite for land cover mapping) generates 1TB data per day (AFAIK). It is hosted and mirrored by different sites and companies, in particular GCE and AWS.
Where is the Sentinel-2 data hosted on GCE and AWS?
Open Access at European Space Agency
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Re: Open Access at European Space Agency
#12This is great! I'm working on a space simulation project and I've been looking for imagery from space probes (e.g. New Horizons' Pluto and Charon imagery, Dawn's shots of Ceres and MESSENGER's new Mercury images). It is surprisingly difficult to find this data. What I can find is some textures that have already been processed to a normal 2:1 rectangular image. But this projection is suboptimal for rendering planetary…
For NASA image data, you can go to the PDS: http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html The Atlas has access to the mission released data. There is also link to PILOT, which has quick access to MESSENGER data and some Dawn data. New Horizons will be added soon.
Although there is a learning curve to processing and projecting raw imagery (using ISIS), it's gotten simpler. You can now use gdal to generate images.
Re: Open Access at European Space Agency
#13This is great! I'm working on a space simulation project and I've been looking for imagery from space probes (e.g. New Horizons' Pluto and Charon imagery, Dawn's shots of Ceres and MESSENGER's new Mercury images). It is surprisingly difficult to find this data. What I can find is some textures that have already been processed to a normal 2:1 rectangular image. But this projection is suboptimal for rendering planetary…
For New Horizons (and many others):
http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/
Re: Open Access at European Space Agency
#14Talking about open access data: Are there good public sources of raw radio astronomy data?
There are several public archives for radio astronomy. Find your favourite telescope which allows public proposals for observations and search for archive. e.g.
VLA: https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/vla/archive/index
ALMA: https://almascience.eso.org/alma-data
Re: Open Access at European Space Agency
#15This is great! I'm working on a space simulation project and I've been looking for imagery from space probes (e.g. New Horizons' Pluto and Charon imagery, Dawn's shots of Ceres and MESSENGER's new Mercury images). It is surprisingly difficult to find this data. What I can find is some textures that have already been processed to a normal 2:1 rectangular image. But this projection is suboptimal for rendering planetary…
Have you looked at orbiter ( http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ )? I know they have some high resolution maps for several planets . Go to download->optional high-resolution texture download ( http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/mirrors/orbiter_radio/tex_mir... ). I don't know the format so I could be mistaken but I think it also includes elevation maps.
I know Orbiter and I have been using textures from Celestia add-ons.
They are typically normal rectangular textures with the usual distortion.
Thanks for the pointer.