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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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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…

A little off topic but are you aware of anywhere that provides high resolution night-time imagery? So far I've only been able to find a little from Himawari-8.

VIIRS DNB Nightly Mosaics can be found here:

https://ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/download.html

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Day-Night Band (VIIRS DNB) images the entire Earth nightly at a resolution of about 750 meters. Suomi NPP orbits the Earth 14 times per day on a 16-day repeat cycle. The average time at which images are taken is near 01:30 in local solar time, but can vary by over an hour depending on latitude and the particular cycle.

Re: Mapping Australia’s Coast with Landsat Satellite Imagery

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A little off topic but are you aware of anywhere that provides high resolution night-time imagery? So far I've only been able to find a little from Himawari-8.

VIIRS DNB Nightly Mosaics can be found here: https://ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/download.html The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Day-Night Band (VIIRS DNB) images the entire Earth nightly at a resolution of about 750 meters. Suomi NPP orbits the Earth 14 times per day on a 16-day repeat cycle. The average time at which images are taken is near 01:30 in local solar time, but can vary by over an hour depending on lat…

Thanks! That's the kind of imagery I'm looking for but not the resolution. I should have made it clearer but what I'm looking for is images with resolution like in this article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/syria_from_space_...

They claim to have got these from NASA but the resolution looks a hell of a lot finer than 750m, it looks more like 1m-5m; you can see individual streets in the Raqqa timelapse.

They link to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/syria_from_space_... but it just mentions VIIRS again.

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