Satellite Images

[KARL]

Satellite images available on Google are always a year or two old. It would not surprise me if obtaining, say, a 2-7 day old image is fairly costly but I would expect it to be possible. Does anyone know how one would go about this and how much an image covering for example an area 5-8km each way might cost ?

[sanmac]

Try Googling "custom made satellite images UK" and then go from there.

[wolf63]

I did a quick Google search and there seems to be various companies which sell satellite images. It might be worth just scrolling through them.

I will depend on whether you want a one-off image or if you want to access online on a regular basis.

Most of the companies that I saw were in the US. Maybe Santa would supply a Drone for your Christmas present.

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[sanmac]

I just realised that you want an image just a few days old, so maybe my suggestion isn't suitable to your needs.

[HansUrbancka]

I think you are seeking the impossible, unless you are a billionaire.

What you want I believe is only available to Governmental Services and would involve 'Spy Satellites'. Anyway, why are you seeking such a facility, are you planning some form of Espionage. ?

Hans.

[jno]

you may find the ones on an Ipad or Iphone are more up to date than Google images.

[KARL]

For those who need to know: Any area that suffers a major terrain changing natural disaster covering tens of thousands of hectares, the wait for it to become visible on google is anything up to 4 years it seems - and maybe not an image immediately following the change at that. Of course there are those who regard curiosity about such things highly irregular, treasonous and worse. There are civilian satellites in orbit which photograph everything in their path at least once a week but I don't know which or by whom they are owned/controlled/used. I know of one source for weather satellite images (high orbit) but that is all.

[sanmac]

I typed into Google: "can I get recent satellite images.", and a list of sites came up including this: https://zoom.earth/#67.204032,15.117188,3z,sat,pm,2018-08-07

[KARL]

Thank you sanmac, an interesting supplement to google earth and maps. Sadly, I recognise that what comes up is probably two years old or more.

[ABerrant]

Landsat is the NASA/USGS Earth observation satellite programme. It is Landsat 8 imagery that is used on Google Earth and Google Maps.

The Landsat 8 satellite images the entire Earth every 16 days in an 8-day offset from Landsat 7 and the images are viewable courtesy of USGS.

https://landsatlook.usgs.gov/viewer.html