Satellite Imagery
About Maps and Satellites
A guide to using map and satellite tools.
Free
Baidu Maps
Baidu’s mapping service offering satellite imagery, street maps, and streetview (“Panorama” - zh:百度全景).
Free
Bing Maps
Bing Maps is a web mapping service provided by Microsoft that offers detailed geographical information and tools for route planning, location search, and satellite imagery.
Partially Free
Copernicus Browser (formerly Sentinel Hub Playground, EO Browser)
A user-friendly platform for visualising Sentinel data, updated every 5-10 days with new imagery. The interface includes a number of features, including built-in indices and a timelapse tool.
Free
Earth Explorer
"Query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products"
Partially Free
EOS Landviewer
EOS Landviewer provides free services for up to 10 images. More images and analysis are available to journalists at a discount. Contact: Artem Seredyuk artem.seredyuk@eosda.com. EOS is in the process of developing a service provisionally called EOS Media that will be providing free images and analysis of major natural disasters.
Paid
Guide not available
Google Earth Engine
Google Earth Engine is a platform for environmental monitoring and analysis through satellite imagery and geospatial data.
Partially Free
Google Earth Pro
Google Earth is a geospatial tool that provides detailed, global satellite imagery, maps, 3D terrain models, and the ability to explore geographic data interactively.
Free
Google Maps
Google Maps provides mapping information, satellite imagery and Google Street View imagery including historical Street View images.
Free
GovMap
GovMap provides an interactive map of Israel, offering users a wide range of data including property boundaries, planning information, and infrastructure details.
Free
HERE WeGo
Sattelite imagery tool that can serve as an alternative to Google or Apple Maps.
Free
Guide not available
Index Database
A database of remote sensing indices and satellite imaging sensors
Free
Mappy
Mapping service (and streetview in a couple of French cities [double check this!])
Free
Guide not available
MapSwitcher
Chrome extension switches between online map apps, maintaining (as far as possible) the map centre, zoom level, & directions of the source map.
Free
NASA Worldview
NASA Worldview is an online tool for visualizing and downloading near real-time satellite imagery and scientific data of Earth's atmosphere, land, and oceans.
Free
OrbTrack
Predicts & describes the position & path of >10K satellites in Earth orbit, relative to points on the earth's surface input by the user, for 5 days ahead, + International Space Station video feed.
Free
Planet Labs
Planet Labs PBC is an American optical satellite imagery company that sells access to imagery.
Partially Free
QGIS
QGIS is a free Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS).
Free
Radar Interference Tracker (RIT)
Bellingcat's radar interference tracker can be used to locate and monitor active military radar systems.
Free
Resource Watch
A nonprofit platform, still in beta, that provides hundreds of data sets on the state of the planet’s resources and citizens. It is sponsored by the World Resources Institute and other organizations.
Free
Guide not available
satellites.pro
Satellites.pro allows open source researchers to quickly switch between several free satellite imagery and mapping services.
Free
SkyFi
SkyFi is used to purchase commercial satellite imagery and task (order the collection of images) satellites without a subscription.
Paid
Soar.earth
Aerial, satellite and drone imagery on a global map.
Paid
Guide not available
https://soar.earth/?pos=-24.806025673047216%2C112.37019712776902%2C7
Tencent Maps
Tencent Maps (formerly SOSO Maps) is a desktop and web mapping service application and technology provided by Chinese company Tencent, offering satellite imagery, street maps, street view (coverage) and historical view perspectives.
Free
The European Space Agency (ESA) - Earth Online
The ESA's Earth Online product offers a portal for accessing satellite imagery and environmental data, supporting a range of applications from climate monitoring to natural disaster assessment.
Free
Umbra Space
Umbra is an American synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imaging company that sells on-demand taskings for satellite imagery.
Paid
what3words
A proprietary geocode system which identifies any location on the surface of the earth to a resolution of 3 metres. The identifier is a unique combination of three words, available in 60 languagues.
Free
Guide not available
Yandex Maps
A platform offering detailed maps, satellite imagery, street views (static & sometimes dynamic imagery, including aerial views). Often the best available data on Russia & surrounding regions.
Partially Free
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