it is well possible to get some free data, though it also involves a bit of effort - and a good reason.

- Digital Globe Foundation makes data available free of charge, but a proposal has to be submitted. In my group we have done that a few times successfully. At the moment they don't accept new requests, though, but check here

http://foundation.digitalglobe.com/

- Pleiades. Also here you can submit a simple proposal - we managed to get data worth some 40,000 Euro or so, see https://tinyurl.com/y4ky2rwf

Good luck, Norman

I don't think so!...you need to contact some data image concessionaire!

Dear Sk Ajim Ali,

Luis Ernesto Cervera-Gómez already answered right. There are no way to freely access to HQ satellite images. They are all commercial product and sold at a high price. Best solution would be reaching a provider and negociate the cost.

However, there are some interesting portals from which you can observe/browse some HQ images for yourself and figure out whether or not they provide you the details/information required, but you will not be able to download anything from them. Feel free to check out Zoom.Earth (https://zoom.earth/) for instance.

There is also a huge and trending platform, which offers raw images/corrected images/analysis ready products and a whole pack of features. Check it out at LandViewer|EOS (https://eos.com/landviewer/).

Hope this helps.

Dear Ali,

unfortunately, it’s not possible to get the mentioned images freely.

Free data is not possible get access. you need to contact the concern team to purchase.

Hi

Available at https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov for some areas of IKONOS Image or OrbView Image that has a resolution of 1 meters.

it is well possible to get some free data, though it also involves a bit of effort - and a good reason.

- Digital Globe Foundation makes data available free of charge, but a proposal has to be submitted. In my group we have done that a few times successfully. At the moment they don't accept new requests, though, but check here

http://foundation.digitalglobe.com/

- Pleiades. Also here you can submit a simple proposal - we managed to get data worth some 40,000 Euro or so, see https://tinyurl.com/y4ky2rwf

Good luck, Norman

Thank you everyone for valuable suggestions. I recommend you all.

Not possible to the best of my knowledge

Norman Kerle is right in some way about getting free up to date high resolution RS images. But, these are rare cases and normally it is an invitation by the commercial or government parties to submit proposals for a project to solve specific issue.

A good example of that is the government of Dubai and MBRSC launched two satellites Dubai-1 and Dubai-2 and they invited scientists in 2015 for submitting proposals for getting high resolution images ~ 1 meter in spatial resolution and to compete for prizes that reached 50000 US $ for the first place

see the following We address

https://mbrsc.ae/en/page/remote-sensing-applications-competition-rsac-2015

based on my experience I don't agree with the above statement. We submitted 3 proposals in the last few years, 2 to Digital Globe, 1 to Pleiades, without any invitation. IN both cases PhD students submitted the proposal, which were brief ans not much work, and we quickly got data that together were worth more than 100,000 Euro for the 3 grants. As I said before, DG doesn't accept new proposals at the moment, but Pleiades is open.

From my own experience and knowledge, I wish to inform you all that after installing the SAS planet, one can access different types of very high resolution images of google, yandex, Geohub, Geoportal, Being, Marine Maps, ESRI and many other categories. But the main issue with this is, it only offer single band image. One can download < 0.5 m images, but for single band the size is too high sometimes more than 1 GB.

please see the below link

https://bitbucket.org/sas_team/sas.planet.bin/download/

Thank you Norman Kerle @Ahmad Rajabi and Sk Ajim Ali for the valuable discussion.