TheDOVES are a flock of microsatellitestasked with speedy Earth tomography . Now all those images are free - to - employment under a creative commons licence .
Top image : San Francisco Bay , California . Nature substitute , salt ponds , and levee trails to the eastward , the Dumbarton Bridge spanning East Palo Alto and Fremont , with Facebook ’s campus to the southwestward . citation : Planet Labs Inc.
develop by PlanetLabs , 28 of these toaster - sized satelliteslaunched in January 2014 . Ever since , Flock 1 has been sending home beautiful images of the entire planet , showcasing their favourites in afrequently - updated gallery .
Now , PlanetLabs has released all those images under aCreative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike 4.0 International License . This mean you could take those look-alike and divvy up or qualify them any way you need , just as long as you keep their name attached in the attribution , and eject the new work under thesame CC by - Sturmabteilung 4.0 freedom and restriction .
Free Light : Planet Gallery Images Now Licensed as Creative Commons
peacenik released from the International Space Station . Image credit : NASA
One of the advertised aim of the DOVES is to rapidly image the planet oftentimes enough to be utile in disaster response . While neither this sodbuster ’s small athletic field fervidness nor the ongoing drought in Brazil are ruinous time - pressing disasters , they are good illustration of what can be done with pre- and post - event imagery .
NASA / USGS : 7 May 2025 , PlanetLabs : 9 August 204
Landsat 8captured an picture of this region on August 8th . The next day , DOVES photographed the same locating , now with a fire burn off in a tilled field .
NASA / USGS : July 2013 , PlanetLabs : July 2014
Minas Gerais , Brazil , has been experiencing one of the bad drouth in the past half - century this year . The encroachment can be seen by the dramatically lower water grade in Represa Três Marias , one of the largest reservoir in Brazil .
Despite my clear disaster - obsession , not every trope is about slow - onslaught catastrophes . Flock 1 of the dove are also tracking farming manipulation , development , or just flat - out smasher .
Inland are minor villages skirt with agrarian fields . Farming continues right out into the sea , with hydroponics pens for shrimp , sea cucumber vine , and abalone .
The human impact on the landscape painting north of Bakersfield is a knifelike devision between irrigated field , and desert ravine . Understandably , theongoing California droughthas had substantial impact on this region .
https://gizmodo.com/californias-drought-has-hit-a-new-stage-in-bad-as-of-a-1568832275
The Great Bitter Lake is one of just two berth along the 193.3 kilometre Suez Canal where ship can pass each other .
All image credit PlanetLabs . For a bit more sweetheart , did you get it on that the squab are deck out in works of art ?
https://gizmodo.com/microsatellite-art-in-orbit-1549145195
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