Satellite imagery
See also: teaching-digital-technologies, computing
Collection of resources/ideas/projects around the use of Satellite imagery and other data.
Links#
- NASA APIs - intended to make NASA data accessible to application developers - hourly limit of 1,000 requests/hour
- NASA's Earthdata developer portal
- Google earth engine - with publicly available datasets
- Programmable Web's (retired) list of Satellite APIs
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 |