Write application for analysis of satellite imagery of dates from cvs file

Question

I want to write an application/ software, preferrably using python, which will allow me to read in a csv file which contains dates and will then save satellite imagery from these dates.

Before I attempt this I want to know if this actually possible using an existing web-based api from sources such as NASA?

Sorry for a vague question but I have not been able to find any answers thus far and do not want to begin an impossible task as I am quite new to programming, so any advice on this question is much appreciated.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 06 '18 at 13:03

Read CSV from Python: yes.
Use Web-based API from Python: yes.
Download images from Python: yes.
Save images from Python: yes.

Does NASA provide an API? Does it support what you want to do with it? These are questions you'll have to elaborate more on what you have tried and what NASA's website shows.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '18 at 13:43

Try and see! Here is a request for imagery of the O2 Arena on the river in London for an image from January 2017:

curl "https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/earth/imagery/?lon=0&lat=51.5&date=2017-01-01&cloud_score=True&api_key=DEMO_KEY"

Here is the result:

{
  "cloud_score": 0.047324414226919846, 
  "date": "2017-01-17T10:52:32", 
  "id": "LC8_L1T_TOA/LC82010242017017LGN00", 
  "resource": {
    "dataset": "LC8_L1T_TOA", 
    "planet": "earth"
  }, 
  "service_version": "v1", 
  "url": "https://earthengine.googleapis.com/api/thumb?thumbid=a286185b3fda28fa900a3ce43b3aad8c&token=206c7f1b6d4f847d0d16646461013150"

If you paste the URL at the end into a browser, you get the image.

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Write application for analysis of satellite imagery of dates from cvs file

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