Interested in high fidelity (HD) satellite imagery? How beautiful the planet we live in can only be seen from afar. Below we will see how you can download high resolution satellite images but also where you can find amazing educational tools to explore the geographical changes of our planet.
All three solutions below are free.
Η by clicking here Earth Explorer is owned by the US Geological Survey. The maps and images it has are of high resolution. The data they concern the country (and not only), but are detailed and very informative.
The information collected from sources such as the Landsat remote sensing program as well as NASA's ground services.
You can use a combination of query options to combine United States Geological Survey (USGS) files and retrieve datasets.
Η European Commission (European Commission or EC), together with the European Space Agency (ESA), have the largest global earth observation program.
Data from Sentinel satellites is available at absolutely no cost through an open access hub to the website. You will need to record to download HD satellite images.
High resolution images are offered to the public under a Creative Commons IGO license. The quality is better than the United States Geological Survey (USGS) images.
Take a look at Sentinel Hub Playground to download very high resolution images from Sentinel-2.
NASA's Worldview is a powerful one application which allows you to view high resolution satellite images in near real time. You can use the website functions to set a time series and download a historical data.
You can also try to see the Earth at night. What does the Earth look like after sunset and what are the areas with the lights? Download everything to your computer.
Of course there is Google Earth (but also Google Maps), but with the above websites you will enjoy much better resolution (HD) in the images that interest you.
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