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This video tutorial is about how to directly viewing and downloading historical satellite imagery in ArcGIS Pro. ArcGIS Pro must be connected to the internet and you must have access to ESRI Living Atlas for this method to works. Access to ESRI Living Atlas could be obtained by purchasing and subscribing ArcGIS Online organizational account, apply for a 21 days ArcGIS free trial, or apply for ArcGIS Learn program. You can also get a limited time ArcGIS online and Living Atlas access by participating in ESRI MOOC available from esri.com/training.  Using this way, you can view, analyze and download few kinds of satellite imagery sensors available on the market. For example, Landsat-8, Landsat-9. MODIS, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1, and many others. Some of the URL endpoint you can use as starting point are here.  LANDSAT-8 SENTINEL-2 So far, this is the easiest method to obtain direct access to historical satellite imagery. There are also limitation about this service. One of them is ...

Needs for High Resolution Imagery is important for many GIS analyst. Sometimes those imagery are coming with not so cheap price. Not many people can have access to those data. But with the recent development of Online Mapping Platform, there are many online map providers gave API services for free to access global level of satellite imagery with no cost, for example Google Earth Pro, Bing, ArcGIS Online, HERE Maps, and many others.  The video below show you a way to get those online high resolution satellite imagery through QGIS Software (that you can also get for free because it is open sourced). Those online basemap and high resolution imagery can be downloaded using QGIS, what you needs to have is just quite fast internet connection.  I am not guarantee that the method shown on the video will always working with QGIS no matter the version, but if you are find some problems with the latest QGIS version, you can always rollback to older version to make this works. Well actual...