# What are some good websites for satellite images? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 17, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-websites-for-satellite-images/449657 "2008-05-17T14:52:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unspun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9bd4f/32.png) [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-websites-for-satellite-images/449657/1 "2008-05-17T14:52:37Z")
Like live feeds from satellites and whatnot ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-websites-for-satellite-images/449657/2 "2008-05-17T15:24:30Z")
Not live feeds, but usually have topical satellite images: > **[NASA Earth Observatory - Newsroom](https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/newsroom)** > > climate change, global climate change, global warming, natural hazards, Earth, environment, remote sensing, atmosphere, land processes, oceans, volcanoes, land cover, Earth science data, NASA, environmental processes, Blue Marble, global maps [http://www.globalsecurity.org/](http://www.globalsecurity.org/) ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-websites-for-satellite-images/449657/3 "2008-05-17T17:16:53Z")
There aren’t any real live feeds, like “webcam” type things, but there are many that update every few minutes and are often called “real-time”. Most of them are weather sats. Could you be more specific what you’re looking for? Try these. Some of them are the same, but the images may come in different formats or with different information added or whatever: [http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/aviation/imgs.html](http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/aviation/imgs.html) > **[NOAA GOES Geostationary Satellite Server](https://www.goes.noaa.gov/)** > > The Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) is part of the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS). NESDIS is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Department of Commerce. [http://www.weather.gov/sat\_tab.php?image=ir](http://www.weather.gov/sat_tab.php?image=ir) > **[Images and Data — SSEC](https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/)** > > The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) is an internationally > known research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. > SSEC develops and utilizes instrumentation, algorithms, satellite ground and satellite archive... ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-websites-for-satellite-images/449657/4 "2008-05-18T12:03:21Z")
[Topozone.com](http://Topozone.com) and [terraserver.com](http://terraserver.com) sell satellite imagery by credit card and download. Typically they offer a variety of image times (that is, some images that are decades old and some from this year and various times between), and they offer grayscale and color and false color infrared, and they offer a range of image scale and effective pixel size. ---
**Author:** ![unspun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9bd4f/32.png) [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-websites-for-satellite-images/449657/5 "2008-05-18T16:30:27Z")
Those are some nice ones. The weather ones I guess are the most interesting. ---
**Author:** ![unspun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9bd4f/32.png) [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-websites-for-satellite-images/449657/6 "2008-05-18T16:31:59Z")
[QUOTE=unspun] Those are some nice ones. The weather ones I guess are the most interesting. [/QUOTE] but international, not just North America 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-websites-for-satellite-images/449657/7 "2008-05-19T00:34:01Z")
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Google Earth: [http://earth.google.com/](http://earth.google.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-good-websites-for-satellite-images/449657/8 "2008-05-19T04:30:04Z")
[QUOTE=unspun] but international, not just North America 🙂 [/QUOTE] Try this for international weather sats: [International Weather Satellite Images](http://dbaron.org/sat/) Here’s a couple for various non-weather satellites all over the world but I only recommend them if you are serious about finding satellite data and not just wanting to casually look at some images. Might be fun to browse the contents though. [http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/](http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/) (registration required) [http://earthnow.usgs.gov/](http://earthnow.usgs.gov/) (requires java)