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Hello,

Does anyone know if there are freely available satellite imagery close to what google offers? What is the best freely available coverage images of the United States?

Thank you so much

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Alessandro Ferrucci

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Hi Alessandro,

Take a look at the GOES images you can find at URL:
http://www.gis.ssd.nesdis.noaa.gov/

You might need to play with the raster SLD to get imagery close to what
Google is offering.

Regards,

Bernard

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 11:47 -0400, Alessandro Ferrucci wrote:

Hello,

Does anyone know if there are freely available satellite imagery close
to what google offers? What is the best freely available coverage
images of the United States?

Thank you so much

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Thank you so much, I will look at their data.

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Bernard Clement <bernard@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi Alessandro,

Take a look at the GOES images you can find at URL:
http://www.gis.ssd.nesdis.noaa.gov/

You might need to play with the raster SLD to get imagery close to what
Google is offering.

Regards,

Bernard

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 11:47 -0400, Alessandro Ferrucci wrote:

Hello,

Does anyone know if there are freely available satellite imagery close
to what google offers? What is the best freely available coverage
images of the United States?

Thank you so much

–
Signed,
Alessandro Ferrucci

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On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Alessandro Ferrucci
<alessandroferrucci@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hello,

Does anyone know if there are freely available satellite imagery close to
what google offers? What is the best freely available coverage images of
the United States?

There are some insanely high res images available from NASA:

http://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/mrsid.pl

Each piece is one UTM zone. Be aware that even for just the US the
dataset will be *huge*. We had an entire set downloaded at one point
and I think it was something like 80+ gigs in MrSID format, which
means in GeoTIFF it would be simply astronomical.

If you don't need to see down to this level of detail, the TrueMarble
images are available for free at 250m/pixel resolution which is double
the best BlueMarble map:

http://www.unearthedoutdoors.net/global_data/true_marble/download

However I found the contrast on TrueMarble to bee a bit high (northern
Africa is simply blinding) so you might want to adjust that in your
SLD. I just went with BlueMarble 500m res images instead.

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If I were you, I'd browser here:

http://edc.usgs.gov/

You can find very high res imagery, same as used by WorldWind.

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On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Alessandro Ferrucci
<alessandroferrucci@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hello,

Does anyone know if there are freely available satellite imagery close to
what google offers? What is the best freely available coverage images of
the United States?

Thank you so much

--
Signed,
Alessandro Ferrucci

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