Welcome to Landsat Lens, a touch and mouse friendly application for browsing past and present Landsat satellite imagery hosted by USGS here.
Click here for the live application.
The application was built using the following technologies:
- ArcGIS API for JavaScript by Esri
- Bootstrap by Twitter Inc
- jQuery Throttle / Debounce by Ben Alman
- jQuery by the jQuery Foundation Inc.
- jQuery Mouse Wheel by the jQuery Foundation Inc.
Credit must also be given Yannick Albert who's jQuery Touch libary was a useful reference.
The USGS's Landsat program has been imaging the Earth for the past 45 years (see wiki). Click here, here and here to learn more about the Landsat imagery hosted by Esri and specifically the recently announced Landsat Explorer app.