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Mapping Australia’s Coast with Landsat Satellite Imagery

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Re: Mapping Australia’s Coast with Landsat Satellite Imagery

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Post by flyaway »

If you're looking to get into Landsat imagery yourself, I highly recommend the command line tool landsat-util[1] (although you do need to install it using Python 2). It allows you to search with lat/lon pairs, cloud cover, etc, and comes with tools to automatically do the band combining for you so you can have easy real-color images.

I find the the browser-friendly tools like LandsatLook[2] or Earth Explorer[3] to be more difficult to use, but if you're interested USGS has posted some great tutorials for them on YouTube[4]. There are also some interesting ideas about how to use the data itself beyond just creating pretty pictures.

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[1]: https://github.com/developmentseed/landsat-util

[2]: https://landsatlook.usgs.gov/

[3]: https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/user/usgs/search?query=landsat

Re: Mapping Australia’s Coast with Landsat Satellite Imagery

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Post by daleroberts »

flyaway wrote: post #6

If you're looking to get into Landsat imagery yourself, I highly recommend the command line tool landsat-util[1] (although you do need to install it using Python 2). It allows you to search with lat/lon pairs, cloud cover, etc, and comes with tools to automatically do the band combining for you so you can have easy real-color images. I find the the browser-friendly tools like LandsatLook[2] or Earth Explorer[3] to be…

Even cooler is when you take landsat-util and visualise results directly in your terminal, see here:

https://github.com/daleroberts/tv

Re: Mapping Australia’s Coast with Landsat Satellite Imagery

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Post by flyaway »

daleroberts wrote: post #7
flyaway wrote: post #6

If you're looking to get into Landsat imagery yourself, I highly recommend the command line tool landsat-util[1] (although you do need to install it using Python 2). It allows you to search with lat/lon pairs, cloud cover, etc, and comes with tools to automatically do the band combining for you so you can have easy real-color images. I find the the browser-friendly tools like LandsatLook[2] or Earth Explorer[3] to be…

Even cooler is when you take landsat-util and visualise results directly in your terminal, see here: https://github.com/daleroberts/tv

That's fantastic! A perfect combination of tech and use case.

Re: Mapping Australia’s Coast with Landsat Satellite Imagery

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Post by daleroberts »

flyaway wrote: post #8
daleroberts wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even cooler is when you take landsat-util and visualise results directly in your terminal, see here: https://github.com/daleroberts/tv

That's fantastic! A perfect combination of tech and use case.

Only a cheap trick, but a useful one :-)
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