This document lists 16 open sources for satellite imagery data, including USGS, ESA, NASA, NOAA, ISRO, JAXA, and DigitalGlobe. It provides the website links for each data source, along with details on the satellite missions and products covered, which include Landsat, Sentinel, ALOS, SPOT, and more. Registration is required for some sources prior to downloading imagery. The list was compiled by Atiqa Khan and provides a useful starting point for finding free satellite imagery from different agencies and missions around the world.

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Satellite Imagery
OPEN DATA SOURCES
COMPILED BY: ATIQA KHAN

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OPEN SOURCES FOR
SATELLITE IMAGERY
1. USGS Earth Explorer
 Link: http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
2. ESA’s Sentinel Mission
 Link: https://scihub.copernicus.eu/dhus/#/home
 Mainly deals with Sentinel 2a and 2b
3. NOAA Online
 It currently supports: POES, DMSP, GOES, MetOp, Jason-2 data, PP, JPSS (formerly
NPOESS), GOES-R, Jason-3, and planned Earth-based observing systems include
NEXRAD products.
 Link: http://www.class.ncdc.noaa.gov/saa/products/savekeys
4. NASA Reverb
 It includes these many satellites but not limited to; Aqua, Terra, Aura, TRMM, Calipso,
NASA DC, JASON, ENVISAT, ALOS, METEOSAT, GOES, ICESAT, GMS, Landsat,
NIMBUS, SMAP, RADARSAT, NOAA satellites, GPS satellites etc.
 Link:http://reverb.echo.nasa.gov/reverb/#utf8=%E2%9C%93&spatial_map=satellite&spa
tial_type=rectangle
 Link: https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search
5. Earth Observation Link (EOLi) – ESA’s EO Catalogue
 It covers up: Envisat, ERS, IKONOS, DMC, ALOS, SPOT, Kompsat, Proba, IRS,
SCISAT.
 Link: https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/data-access/browse-data-products
 Official Site: https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/eoli

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6. National Institute for Space Research (INPE)
 It has data from: China–Brazil Earth Resources Satellite 2 and 2b (CBERS-2, CBERS-2b),
Aqua, CBERS, Landsat, ResourceSat, S-NPP, Terra & UK-DMC 2 etc.
 Link: http://www.dgi.inpe.br/CDSR/
 Image downloading requires simple registration.
7. Bhuvan Indian Geo-Platform of ISRO
 It includes: IMS-1 (Hyperspectral), Cartosat, OceanSat and ResourceSat – which are all
Indian satellites.
 Some products like NDVI, CartoDem etc.
 Link: http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/data/download/index.php
8. JAXA’s Global ALOS 3D World
 It has 30m DSM sing the Advanced Land Observing Satellite “DAICHI” (ALOS) –
PALSAR’s L-band.
 Must have registration: http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/aw3d30/registration.htm
 Link: http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/aw3d30/data/index.htm
9. NOAA Data Access Viewer
 Its slow in download but cover up USA only.
 Link: https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/#
10. NOAA Digital Coast
 It’s all about exploring coastal data
 Link: https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/
11.VITO Vision
 It offers imagery from: PROBA-V, SPOT-Vegetation and METOP free satellite imagery,
but in coarser resolution and friendly interface.
 Need registration before downloading.
 Link: http://www.vito-eodata.be/PDF/portal/Application.html#Home

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12.Global Land Cover Facility
 Provides satellite imagery from Landsat, MODIS and AVHRR.
 Official Site: http://landcover.org/
 Link: http://landcover.org/data/
13.Digital Globe Free Product Samples
 It’s a largest commercial high resolution satellite imagery source but with some sample
products.
 Official Site: http://www.digitalglobe.com/
 Samples: http://www.digitalglobe.com/product-samples
14.BlackBridge/Geo-Airbus
 It has imagery from SPOT, Pleiades, RapidEye and TerraSAR data.
 Blackbridge is for Canada, and Geo-Arirbus is for rest of the world.
 Geo AirBus Sample: http://www.intelligence-airbusds.com/en/23-sample-imagery
 Geo AirBus Link: http://www.intelligence-airbusds.com/satellite-image-gallery/
 Geo AirBus Dem Sample & Purchase: http://www.intelligence-airbusds.com/worlddem-
sampledata/ OR http://www.geo-airbusds.com/worlddem-sampledata/
 Rapid EyeFind ( BlackBridge): http://eyefind.rapideye.com/
15.UNAVCO Research Data
 UNAVCO = University NAVSTAR Consortium
 It has all data sources about SAR (SAR = Synthetic Aperture Radar)
 SAR Data Collection:
http://www.unavco.org/data/imaging/sar/collections/collections.html
 Supersites for Geo Hazard SAR Data: http://supersites.earthobservations.org/
 Supersite Data User Link: http://www.unavco.org/data/imaging/sar/apply-for-
access/apply-for-access.html
 WInSAR User Registration: https://winsar.unavco.org/apply_du.html
16. THEIA Land Data Center
 Operated by CNES under France.

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 It provides satellite data of Landsat, and SPOT.
 Link: https://theia.cnes.fr/atdistrib/rocket/#/search
Courtesy to: http://gisgeography.com/free-satellite-imagery-data-list/