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The Landsat 7 satellite offers Earth images with resolutions down to 15 meters. (Source: NASA)
A U.S. Geological Survey policy recently democratized access to satellite imagery, and now easy-to-use cloud-based software brings smarter-planet analytics to the people. The government has made its Landsat archive of global satellite imagery available to cloud-based services offering free access to sophisticated pattern analysis software, allowing almost anyone to perform smarter-planet studies...
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