If you're looking to get into Landsat imagery yourself, I highly recommend the command line tool landsat-util[1] (although you do need to install it using Python 2). It allows you to search with lat/lon pairs, cloud cover, etc, and comes with tools to automatically do the band combining for you so you can have easy real-color images.
I find the the browser-friendly tools like LandsatLook[2] or Earth Explorer[3] to be more difficult to use, but if you're interested USGS has posted some great tutorials for them on YouTube[4]. There are also some interesting ideas about how to use the data itself beyond just creating pretty pictures.
You can also use Landsat imagery to contribute to OpenStreetMap right from within the JOSM editor. [0] It is just one of many built-in imagery providers with varying levels of detail.
A little off topic but are you aware of anywhere that provides high resolution night-time imagery? So far I've only been able to find a little from Himawari-8.
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Day-Night Band (VIIRS DNB) images the entire Earth nightly at a resolution of about 750 meters. Suomi NPP orbits the Earth 14 times per day on a 16-day repeat cycle. The average time at which images are taken is near 01:30 in local solar time, but can vary by over an hour depending on latitude and the particular cycle.
Thanks! That's the kind of imagery I'm looking for but not the resolution. I should have made it clearer but what I'm looking for is images with resolution like in this article:
They claim to have got these from NASA but the resolution looks a hell of a lot finer than 750m, it looks more like 1m-5m; you can see individual streets in the Raqqa timelapse.
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[1]: https://github.com/developmentseed/landsat-util
[2]: https://landsatlook.usgs.gov/
[3]: https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
[4]: https://www.youtube.com/user/usgs/search?query=landsat
https://github.com/daleroberts/tv
[0] https://remotepixel.ca/projects/satellitesearch.html
L8: https://aws.amazon.com/es/public-datasets/landsat/
S2: http://sentinel-pds.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/
API is https://landsatonaws.com/{path}/{row}/{scene}
[0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Landsat
https://ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/download.html
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Day-Night Band (VIIRS DNB) images the entire Earth nightly at a resolution of about 750 meters. Suomi NPP orbits the Earth 14 times per day on a 16-day repeat cycle. The average time at which images are taken is near 01:30 in local solar time, but can vary by over an hour depending on latitude and the particular cycle.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/syria_from_space_...
They claim to have got these from NASA but the resolution looks a hell of a lot finer than 750m, it looks more like 1m-5m; you can see individual streets in the Raqqa timelapse.
They link to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/syria_from_space_... but it just mentions VIIRS again.
To get into top journals it is really about simple method + novel idea + good story.
The same holds for top Finance journals like 'Journal of Finance', etc.
They are more tech focused journals and have less impact.