Given a location and a date, it uses the Nasa Earth API to show a photo taken by the Landsat 8 satellite. The script must be executed on the command-line.
Before using the script, you must have access to the Nasa's API key. You can quickly get a key at https://api.nasa.gov/. After that, save your key as an environment variable called NASA_API_KEY. Then, you are good to go.
In the same directory where the script is saved*, run the following code on the command-line:
get_image.py -LAT [latitude] -LON [longitude] -DATE [date] -DIM [dimension] --info --save [filename]
-DATE, -DIM, --info and --save are optional. -DATE defaults to today. -DIM defaults to 0.15.
If --info is provided, then the latitude and longitude you input are written onto the image.
You can save the image with --save [filename].
*You can also add the script path to PATH and run it from anywhere.
If the image can not be retrieved, chances are the coordinates are in the ocean. The Landsat 8 sattelite does not capture ocean images.
