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Satellite and Aerial Imagery on AWS

In the previous chapter, we learned about Feature and Map servers. There are many different types of geospatial servers, including GeoEvent, which is used for streaming data, GeoAnalytics for big data and vector analysis, image services for image processing, and raster analytics. Image servers are used to stitch together and reproject image sets to be displayed on your map. In this chapter, we will talk about some of the imagery datasets that are available on AWS.

We will cover the following topics:

  • Imagery options
  • Sentinel
  • Landsat
  • NAIP
  • Demonstrating imagery using AWS

Imagery options

In Chapter 13, we talked about Open Data on AWS. As part of this, we have several satellite datasets available. In this ...

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