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Satellite imagery

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Collection of resources/ideas/projects around the use of Satellite imagery and other data.

APIs#

Astronomy picture of the day (APOD)#

Call https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=<yourkey> and get JSON response with fields including: date, explanation, hdurl, media_type, title, url

Landsat 8 imagery#

https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/earth/imagery - returns an image

Request#

Parameter Type Default Description
lat float Latitude
lon float Longitude
dim float 0.025 Width and height of image in degrees
date YYYY-MM-DD today Date of image
api_key string DEMO_KEY api.nasa.gov key for expanded usage

Response#