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Full Landsat Archive to be Free and Land Cover for Local Governments

posted by Satri on Thursday April 24, @01:46PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the some-geodata-wants-to-be-free dept.

Very Spatial informs us of the USGS plans to make available at no charge the whole Landsat archives within a year. Additionally, Directions Mag runs an article on satellite imagery growth, specifically on land cover products for local governments. From the article: "I, for one, am excited to see innovative, value-added processing of satellite imagery. The little bursts seen in recent years seem to come and go quickly. Perhaps we've turned a corner and this will be the first of many data layers regularly extracted from the terabytes of high-resolution satellite imagery data available worldwide and turned into products for immediate use in the public and private sector." Browse our Land Cover topic for more. Update: 04/29 20:45 GMT by S : The EOPortal informs us NASA has selected the contractor for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission Spacecraft.

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• Yes good news

  (Score:2, Interesting)

  by winwaed (1455) on Thursday April 24, @04:35PM (#2330)
  ( http://www.geowebguru.com/ )

  But then free data invariably is! Recently I've been doing a lot of searching for free / low cost high resolution imagery for a part of Costa Rica. Images do exist but processing and cloud are the main problems. Of course I'm interested in a rain forest area which is more often than not under cloud.
  
  In other words hi-res Imagery with some processing would be great...
  

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