I have not been able to find out this myself, but is there a way to programmatically access Landsat 8 Satellite Images?
I know that I can go to USGS EarthExplorer to search and browse through the scenes, and even download them. But I do not want to download them to my own computer for two reasons, My internet is slow and my laptop have cooling issues.
So instead I figure I want to transfer the images directly to a “cloud”-instance for data processing. I would also be nice if I could download and process these images as they become available from USGS.
Best Answer
I saw a blog post from developmentseed for their command line utility landsat-util.
Power tools for Satellite Imagery
The landsat-util can be forked from github and compiled from source unless your OS offers it in a binary ready to go.
The blog describes it simply as:
You can search based on date, cloud coverage % and other things, download immediately, or process once it's downloaded like pansharpen or stitch the images together.
Here's a readme with more info.