Landsat and USGS imagery?
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Description
Just wondering if in the course of development of this (very awesome) package, if the possibility of interfacing with Landsat had been considered? Not pushing this for a feature request, just wanted to know from people who are more familiar with the landscape/obstacles. I haven't kept up with U.S. map offerings in the recent years but doing a search now yields some promising leads:
The [most promising service seems to be AWS's Landsat S3](https://aws.amazon.com/public-data-sets/landsat/):
> Landsat 8 data is available for anyone to use via Amazon S3. All Landsat 8 scenes from 2015 are available along with a selection of cloud-free scenes from 2013 and 2014. All new Landsat 8 scenes are made available each day, often within hours of production.
[A CLI from Development Seed: Power tools for Satellite Imagery](https://developmentseed.org/blog/2014/08/29/landsat-util/)
> Over the past few months we’ve built tools to automate our own work with satellite imagery. It once took us all day to collect, georeference, composite, color correct, and pan-sharpen imagery. Now, we can do it in a matter of minutes. We’ve packaged our processing scripts into a command line utility. Landsat-util makes it easier for other developers and organizations to work with open satellite imagery.
[USGS: The following examples demonstrate usage of The National Map services in other APIs.](http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/example/)
[GIS Stackexchange: Site to download al USGS Topo Maps in bulk](http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/8977/site-to-download-al-usgs-topo-maps-in-bulk/8988#8988) - a couple of interesting suggestions and options.
ProPublica's SimpleTiles library, which may have some useful guidance: https://propublica.github.io/simple-tiles/
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No repository file, test, or entry point is named, and the issue asks about feasibility rather than defining a change. Start by reviewing the AWS Landsat S3, USGS National Map, landsat-util, and SimpleTiles links; work is not ready until the integration scope and acceptance criteria are decided.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, r
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100