Landsat 8 on AWS and more

Landsat and Amazon were in the mapping news this week as the USGS and NASA are now making Landsat 8 data freely-available to anyone via the Amazon Cloud. Here's more from Jill Clark at Spatial Reserves: Landsat 8 Data Now Available on Amazon AWS - looks like the actual spectral bands are available, plus the metadata.

Here are two interesting Landsat 8 maps (via Maps Mania):

1. Landsat 8 creates a complete mosaic of the Earth every 16 days. Of course that does not mean that the image that your are interested in is actually usable - clouds are always an issue.
2. Landsat live is as close as you can get to a real-time picture of the entire Earth. Again, as before, your place of interest may be under clouds...just wait 16 days!