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Wyvern's Open Satellite Feed


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Last month, Wyvern, a 36-person start-up with $16M USD in funding in Edmonton, Canada launched an open data programme for their VNIR, 23 to 31-band hyperspectral satellite imagery. I used QGIS' Tile+ plugin to add geospatial context with Bing's Virtual Earth Basemap as well as CARTO's to the maps. If you open the properties for the above image's layer in QGIS and select the "Symbology" tab, you can re-map the bands being used for the red, green and blue channels being rendered.

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