# Storytelling from Space

## Acquiring Landsat

### Web Interface
* USGS Earth Explorer  
  <http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/>

### Scripting
* Landsatutil (Development Seed)  
<http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2014/08/29/landsat-util/>
<https://github.com/developmentseed/landsat-util>

* Google Earth Engine   
<https://earthengine.google.org/#intro>

## Processing Landsat

### Background 
* Landsat 7/8 bands and combinations  
<http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2013/07/24/band-combinations-for-landsat-8/>


### Photoshop

* How To Make a True-Color Landsat 8 Image (Rob Simmon, NASA)
<http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegantfigures/2013/10/22/how-to-make-a-true-color-landsat-8-image/>

* Processing Landsat 8 (Tom Patterson)  
<http://www.shadedrelief.com/landsat8/introduction.html>

* Avenza Geographic Imager  
<http://www.avenza.com/geographic-imager>

### GIMP
	
	

### Scripting

##### GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

* Install GDAL  

	```
brew install gdal --enable-unsupported --with-postgres
		
	```
* Install ImageMagick (especially for scripts below)
	
	```
brew install imagemagick
	```
	
* GDAL cheatsheet - Derek Watkins (NYTimes)
<https://github.com/dwtkns/gdal-cheat-sheet>
	
* Processing Satellite Imagery (Mapbox)
  <https://www.mapbox.com/foundations/processing-satellite-imagery/>
  
* Dan's Gdal scripts  
<https://github.com/gina-alaska/dans-gdal-scripts>
* Pansharpening Landsat 7 with Dan's scripts
<http://blog.remotesensing.io/2013/04/pansharpening-using-a-handy-gdal-tool/>	
  
* Convert Landsat 8 GeoTIFF images into RGB pan-sharpened JPEGs.  
<https://gist.github.com/briantjacobs/48320e59954ee7ec5cd1>
  
* Gdalinfo / ogrinfo



* Gdalwarp. Reproject, crop, and resize imagery.

	```
gdalwarp --config GDAL_CACHEMAX 3000  -t_srs EPSG:3857 -r lanczos -ts [WIDTH_IN_PIXELS] 0 -te [LOWER_LEFT_LAT] [LOWER_LEFT_LONG] [UPPER_LEFT_LAT] [LOWER_RIGHT_LONG] [INPUT] [OUTPUT]
```

* Gdal_translate   

	```
gdal_translate -of png [INPUT] [OUTPUT]
	```
	    
	```
gdal_translate -b 1 -b 2 -b 3 -of jpeg  -co QUALITY=80 [INPUT] [OUTPUT]
	```





##### ImageMagick - Command-line photoshop  

* 
	
	
##### Orfeo

* Pansharpening with Orfeo <https://www.mapbox.com/blog/pansharpening-satellite-imagery-openstreetmap/>
 

### GIS

QGIS

	```	
	brew tap homebrew/science
	brew install qgis24 --with-grass7 --with-orfeo
	
	# May need: <https://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/>
	# May also need:
	sudo pip install psycopg2
	echo 'export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages' >> ~/.bash_profile
	


## Web imagery

* GDAL2Tiles  
<http://www.gdal.org/gdal2tiles.html>

* MapTiler
<http://www.maptiler.org/>

* TileMill  
<https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/>

* SimpleTiles / SimplerTiles (Ruby)
<http://propublica.github.io/simple-tiles/>
<http://propublica.github.io/simpler-tiles/>


## Storytelling

* JuxtaposeJS - Compare two images  
<http://juxtapose.knightlab.com/>

* Leaflet (see tileLayer or imageOverlay)  
<http://leafletjs.com/>
 
* Leaflet.Sync   
<https://github.com/turban/Leaflet.Sync>
 
* Google Earth   
<https://www.google.com/earth/>

* Google Earth Tutorial for GeoTiff  
<http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/tutorials/importgis.html>


## In the wild
* Losing Ground (ProPublica / The Lens)  

* Disappering Mississppi Delta (SkyTruth)
<http://blog.skytruth.org/2014/09/disappearing-mississippi-delta-1972-2014.html>
* Long Swath  
<http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/LDCMLongSwath/>  
* Long Swath Gigapan: <http://gigapan.com/gigapans/9741ab68dda60a8b05b9c1bfce147500>
* NYTimes: A Rogue State Along Two Rivers  
	<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/03/world/middleeast/syria-iraq-isis-rogue-state-along-two-rivers.html>
* NYTimes: Assessing the Damage and Destruction in Gaza
	<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/03/world/middleeast/assessing-the-damage-and-destruction-in-gaza.html>
* NYTimes: ISIS in Maps and Photos 
	<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/12/world/middleeast/the-iraq-isis-conflict-in-maps-photos-and-video.html>
* Monitoring Oil Reserves from Space  
<https://www.mapbox.com/blog/Monitoring-oil-reserves-from-space/>
* Animated Gifs of Earth over time (Google Earth Engine)
<https://plus.google.com/b/106191537604091348855/photos/+GoogleEarth/albums/5875822979804092129>
* Hurricaine Sandy before/after  
<http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/weeklynews/nov12/ngs-sandy-imagery.html>

## Misc

* Installing Open Source geographic software  
<https://github.com/nvkelso/geo-how-to/wiki/Installing-Open-Source-Geo-Software:-Mac-Edition>

* Web interface for CS2CS, quickly convert coordinates  
<http://cs2cs.mygeodata.eu/>

* Find the EPSG from WKT from gdalinfo  
<http://www.prj2epsg.org/search>

* Geojson.io - Draw geographic things, get info and export
<http://geojson.io/>

* Noah Veltman's geotools - Easily get bounding boxes and such
<http://dev.noahveltman.com/geotools/>