metadata of basemap

[MananSarupria599]

I am utilizing the SAM package to segment farmlands, with the 'Satellite' basemap serving as my primary imagery source. I am interested in determining the time/year when the 'satellite' basemap used for segmentation was captured.

[giswqs]

I don't think it is possible to get the medata of imagery diretcly through coding. One workdaround is to use Google Earth Pro os to identify imagery acquation date.

[SFrav]

In case others would like to find the imagery source and acquisition date for many scenes programmatically, I imagine that it could be accessed via the earth.google.com website. This would rely on selenium, among packages. Looking at the site I don't see any easy way to do this as all buttons and text are embedded in what is presumably a JS application. I imagine that native selenium and JS options will not work, unfortunately. Instead, one might have to use pyautogui to automate clicks. See below for example pseudo code.

from selenium import webdriver
import pyautogui
import pyperclip
import time

lat = "37.422"
lon = "-122.084"

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://earth.google.com/web/@'+lat+','+lon+',1.1a,30000d')

#Click attribution link at the bottom of the screen
#Use pyautogui.position() to find the location of the last click
pyautogui.click(x, y) #insert x and y values from position identified earlier 

#... then run other pyautogui functions to extract the highlightable text.
# As a last resort this kind of combination will most likely work pyautogui.click(x1, y1 clicks=3)  ... pyautogui.rightClick(x1, y1) ... pyautogui.press('down') ... pyautogui.press('enter') # to highlight the text and then copy using the right-click menu. 

data = pyperclip.paste()
print("Data:", data)

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