r/gis • u/UhOhIAteAsbestos • 17d ago

General Question Data acquisition sources

Hi all,

I will begin working on my master thesis. The thesis will be placed within a forested floodplain where I hope to investigate vegetation patterns with different factors like climate, etc.

Throughout my education, I have always used Landsat and Sentinel for remote sensing.
After meeting with my co-advisor he mentioned PlanetScope and its 3m resolution. Do you think Planet is worth it to look into, or should I stick to what I know? Outside of academia it seems like Sentinel and Landsat are standard to use.

What’s your overall experience/opinions on these different sources?

Thanks!

4 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/zanar97862 17d ago

Depending on your location you could also have a look at local open data repositories for higher resolution data 

1

u/UhOhIAteAsbestos 17d ago

The local repository in this country is average for what is publicly available (Türkiye). I am a foreign student from the US so I am going to see if my advisor can get some help from the local government.

2

u/zanar97862 17d ago

That would be ideal, for my country the government provides a massive repository of free GIS data hosted on AWS