Last week we looked at Sentinel imagery coverage and today we are doing the same for Landsat imagery. First, note that we are discussing Landsat 8 imagery only, as Landsat 7 imagery is not currently available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is the source of our information. In addition, we have excluded Landsat imagery …
How much data do different types of imagery need?
This is the second in a series of posts on Google Earth data sizes. Yesterday we had a look at 3D imagery and also compared it to the aerial imagery in the same location. Today we are looking a the different types of 2D imagery. As we have seen in the past, Google Earth has imagery in a wide variety of resolutions.
We tested using regions of 100 square kilometres with a camera height of 1 km, except for the regions with aerial imagery, where we set the camera hight to 300 m to try and ensure the imagery loaded completely.
