Using platforms like Descartes Labs, everyone from hobbyists to scientists can monitor the planet in near real-time for changes that matter to them. Here I use public domain satellite and aerial imagery to observe the construction of a new California landmark; Apple’s $5 billion headquarters, Apple Park. Located in Cupertino, CA, where HP’s old campus one stood before they moved to Palo Alto in 2010. Construction began in late 2013 and opened to employees in April of 2017 despite ongoing construction.
The imagery comes from NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites, and aerial imagery from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), with spatial resolutions of 30 m, 10 m, and 50 cm per pixel resolution respectively. Images with severe cloud cover have been excluded.
Exhibits were created using the Descartes Labs python API.
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