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Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by JorgeGT »

dragonwriter wrote: post #50
JorgeGT wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the idea is addressing these people (like me) that were used to seeing those "Last edited on XX-XX-XXXX" notices at the footer of HTML pages and worry that the project may be dead/outdated if the date is old. Now that I think about it, is this why people puts "Copyright $initial_year - $current_year"? Because as you rightly say, only $initial_year is legally relevant.

> Now that I think about it, is this why people puts "Copyright $initial_year - $current_year"? Because as you rightly say, only $initial_year is legally relevant. Both are, actually, and $current_year may be the most relevant. That formulation generally indicates that the current work was created in $current_year, but is a derivative (possibly through a chain of intermediaries) of a work created in $initial_year. De…

Hmmm I see, I didn't assume people meant that the subsequent updates of the website are intended o be considered derivative works, but for instance by similarity to different editions of a book, I guess this is actually the case?

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by lucb1e »

kanbara wrote: post #37
lucb1e wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Looks like Google Maps with a timeslider. It's OpenStreetMap-based though, as far as I can tell (there is no attribution to either, but data is loaded from MapBox which I think only provides OSM).

If you click the info (i) in the bottom-right, you'll see that the basemaps are from OSM and MapBox but the raster satellite imagery is from Planet's satellite constellation.

Ah, I had missed that icon, thanks!

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by eloisant »

spdy wrote: post #2

Someone want to explain? It does not look free what is it useful for? Looks like Google Maps with a timeslider.

The biggest difference is that they take satellite pictures daily, while Google Maps takes pictures once every few years.

The photo of my backyard hasn't been updated for more than 3 years, for example.

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by ketralnis »

When Google Maps/Earth came out I remember distinctly an immediate sense of completion at the ability to explore everything instantly.

This is it, this is all of the things. The whole world right there explored and surveyed and mapped and labeled and catalogued and borders drawn. There's no mysterious potion shop whose location is whispered and forgotten in time, no unknown shipwreck full of treasure on an unreachable beach, no secret dark alley hidden through a hedge that leads to Hogwarts. No Hogwarts at all, we've already looked everywhere for it.

You can just get on your pocket computer from the couch and pull up the picture of it taken on June 5th with the reflection of the Google mapping car in the window and littered with discarded Starbucks cups and some blurred out licence plates.

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by 7952 »

eloisant wrote: post #53
spdy wrote: post #2

Someone want to explain? It does not look free what is it useful for? Looks like Google Maps with a timeslider.

The biggest difference is that they take satellite pictures daily, while Google Maps takes pictures once every few years. The photo of my backyard hasn't been updated for more than 3 years, for example.

A huge number of images are captured that just show cloud cover. Having more revists helps, but it may still be a serious constraint.

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by mino »

JorgeGT wrote: post #46

Too bad the resolution outside the US is quite low and the data is closed. If anyone is interested in a similar web app but without country-based limitations, you can take a look at Sentinel Playground at: http://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground/ The best part? All Sentinel data is open to anyone, courtesy of the European Comission. Available at https://scihub.esa.int/ or, for those invested in AWS, directly…

This! Sentinel (1 and soon 2, which launched days ago) data is also available from Google Earth Engine using their API or web UI: https://earthengine.google.com/datasets/

It is hosted on Google Cloud.

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by JorgeGT »

mino wrote: post #57
JorgeGT wrote: post #46

Too bad the resolution outside the US is quite low and the data is closed. If anyone is interested in a similar web app but without country-based limitations, you can take a look at Sentinel Playground at: http://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground/ The best part? All Sentinel data is open to anyone, courtesy of the European Comission. Available at https://scihub.esa.int/ or, for those invested in AWS, directly…

This! Sentinel (1 and soon 2, which launched days ago) data is also available from Google Earth Engine using their API or web UI: https://earthengine.google.com/datasets/ It is hosted on Google Cloud.

Note that Sentinel 2A has been already delivering amazing data, the launch this month was for his twin (Sentinel 2B) which is meant to reduce in half the revisiting time!

Re: Planet Explorer Beta

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Post by sametmax »

tradersam wrote: post #39
vm wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

S/he brings up a useful point of understanding the ToS. What if the next iOS and Android require my location be constantly shared with third parties? I would lose privacy or have to go without a smartphone which is freakishly hard in today's modern world. Obviously that's a hypothetical but I appreciate anyone who pushes back on digital rights given how deep we are in the civic/digital rights gray zone.

> have to go without a smartphone which is freakishly hard in today's modern world. Totally off-topic but sometimes I find it unnerving how hard it is to spend a week without any type of mobile device. People look at you like you're insane.

Just like saying you don't own a tv in the 90'. It's weird at first but a fantastic social filter. Saves you so much time to bond with the proper people, the ones that are ok with people different from them.
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