My undergrad capstone was working on this project, specifically looking into if researchers could use imagery data as a way of answering research questions quickly. I found that they they prefer to just use the raw data.
It was actually pretty interesting hearing about programming from the perspective of researchers. They run into many of the classic problems that beginner programmers face but as a culture they don't have the tools to solve them (like for example, they need version control but no one has heard of git).
This is a client on top of NASA's Global Image Browse Service (GIBS), like most of NASA EOSDIS' software and Earth observation data, it is free to use and build with. [1] [2]
Both Worldview and GIBS are open source. [3] [4]
Finally, if you're interested in this, also check out https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov, which is a search client on top of NASA's metadata holdings index (CMR). It's not quite as beginner friendly -- it expects that you're somewhat familiar with remote sensing products and geospatial searching -- but it's a good front end into EOSDIS' data.
It was actually pretty interesting hearing about programming from the perspective of researchers. They run into many of the classic problems that beginner programmers face but as a culture they don't have the tools to solve them (like for example, they need version control but no one has heard of git).
https://andychase.me/files/meetings_draft_1.pdf