[Openstreetmap] Client libraries for Landsat data?

[Schuyler Erle]

* On 26-Apr-2005 at 12:23AM PDT, Nick Whitelegg said:
> >
> > You probably want to use WMS to request LandSat-7 layers from
> > http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/. UMN's MapServer includes a WMS client.
> > http://locative.us/places/earth/map.cgi?layer=vmap0&layer=satellite
> > provides a web-based example.
> >
> > SDE
> 
> Now if I could get that Landsat data from that URL into my app that would be 
> really cool :-) The Landsat data is easily good enough resolution for me to 
> estimate woods etc. Mapserver seems to be for web apps rather than standalone 
> desktop apps, but I guess - from a cursory look - all I need is an HTTP 
> client library of some sort to send WMS requests. Is there documentation for 
> the precise parameters you need to fetch Landsat images?

    http://www.opengeospatial.org/specs/?page=specs

You might have more success experimenting with the OnEarth web browser
interface, and inferring the parameters you need to use from that.

SDE