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neave
on July 21, 2020
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Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellit...
I’d love to, but their API is currently cost prohibitive for a free-to-use website.
jrichardshaw
on July 21, 2020
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Oh, that's interesting. ESA says they distribute the Sentinel data free of charge as far as I can tell. So I guess the issue is that you'd need to download and host the data yourself, rather than just do an API call to someone else's archive?
Anyway, it's a cool website, nice work!
zetalemur
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Yeah and hosting it by yourself is slightly non-trivial as the storage requirements are in the PB range.
neave
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You’re exactly right. Sentinel Hub process a huge amount of data in real time, so it’s no small feat.
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