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Each 5 days, a satellite from sentinel mission take a picture of your location. It's 8 days for landsat mission. Those are publicly available data (I encourage everyone to use it for environment studies, I think any software people that care about the future should use it).

It's obviously not the same precision as the google map, and it needs update, but it's enough to take in account seasonal change and even brutal events (floods, war, fire, you name it).




Where can you find this data?



There is also https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/ that regroup landsat and sentinel under the same interface.



Hmm used the links shared below but the picture of my home is at least 4-6 months out of date. What am I missing?


I don't know where you live, but the default search at https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/ use sentinel-2 (the true color), 100% maximum cloud coverage (which mean any image), and the latest date.

So you should be able to find the tile of your region at a date close to today, definitely not 4-6 month.


Satellite images can be taken on a dependable schedule, but the weather doesn't always provide a clear view of the ground.




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