22/10/2025
🌍 🌍 Top 15 Free Satellite Imagery & Earth Observation Data Sources (2025 Update)
Whether you’re a GIS analyst, remote sensing researcher, or environmental professional here are some of the best portals for accessing free satellite imagery and geospatial datasets 👇
1️⃣ USGS Earth Explorer
🌐 http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov
🛰️ Landsat (optical), declassified CORONA, Hyperion hyperspectral
2️⃣ Sentinel / Copernicus Browser
🌐 http://copernicus.eu/browser
🛰️ Sentinel-2 (optical multispectral), Sentinel-1 (SAR)
3️⃣ NASA Earthdata Search
🌐 http://search.earthdata.nasa.gov
🛰️ Land cover, atmosphere, cryosphere, biosphere products
4️⃣ NOAA Data Access Viewer
🌐 http://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer
🛰️ Satellite, aerial imagery, coastal LiDAR
5️⃣ Maxar Open Data Program
🌐 http://maxar.com/open-data
🛰️ High-resolution disaster imagery, stereo, elevation, footprints
6️⃣ Geo-Airbus Defense
🌐 http://intelligence.airbus.com
🛰️ SPOT, Pleiades (optical), TerraSAR-X (radar), WorldDEM
7️⃣ NASA Worldview
🌐 http://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov
🛰️ Interactive visualization of global scientific satellite data
8️⃣ NOAA CLASS (Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System)
🌐 http://class.noaa.gov
🛰️ GOES/POES imagery, aerosols, ozone, environmental data
9️⃣ ISRO Bhuvan
🌐 http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in
🛰️ Indian satellite data: IRS, Cartosat, OceanSat, CartoDEM
🔟 JAXA ALOS World 3D (AW3D30)
🌐 http://eorc.jaxa.jp
🛰️ Global 30 m DSM / elevation from ALOS L-band radar
1️⃣1️⃣ NOAA Digital Coast
🌐 http://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast
🛰️ Coastal imagery, elevation, radar, socio-economic data
1️⃣2️⃣ PROBA-V MEP (GeoViewer)
🌐 http://viewer.probav.vito.be
🛰️ PROBA-V, SPOT-VGT, METOP — global vegetation trends
1️⃣3️⃣ Global Land Cover Facilities
🌐 (global land cover data sources via e.g. landsat, MODIS, AVHRR)
🛰️ Landsat, MODIS, AVHRR — global land use/land cover maps
1️⃣4️⃣ UNAVCO (SAR & Geodesy Data)
🌐 http://unavco.org
🛰️ SAR, tectonic deformation, geodesy data for Earth science
1️⃣5️⃣ INPE (Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research)
🌐 http://dgi.inpe.br
🛰️ CBERS, ResourceSat, UK-DMC — regional optical datasets
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