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Re:Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photo... by neave on Monday July 20, 2020 @06:37PM (#23902618)
Some details: It combines near real-time images from multiple geostationary satellites, updated every 10 minutes (with a delay of ~30 minutes). NASA GOES satellite for the Americas, Japan's Himawari-8 for Asia and Meteosat in Europe/Africa. Zoomable up to 500m per pixel. Beyond that it uses historical imagery from Microsoft and Esri.

It also tracks the latest storms and hurricanes https://zoom.earth/storms/

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Re:Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photo... by jrichardshaw on Monday July 20, 2020 @07:48PM (#23903084)
Can you use ESA Sentinel satellite imagery as an intermediate step? It's 10m ish resolution updated on a roughly weekly cadence.

I use it frequently (via https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground/) to help plan backcountry trips around here, as it's great for seeing the local snow conditions.

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Re:Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photo... by neave on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:22PM (#23903241)
I’d love to, but their API is currently cost prohibitive for a free-to-use website.
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Re:Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photo... by jrichardshaw on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:40PM (#23903345)
Oh, that's interesting. ESA says they distribute the Sentinel data free of charge as far as I can tell. So I guess the issue is that you'd need to download and host the data yourself, rather than just do an API call to someone else's archive?

Anyway, it's a cool website, nice work!

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Re:Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photo... by zetalemur on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @06:29AM (#23905754)
Yeah and hosting it by yourself is slightly non-trivial as the storage requirements are in the PB range.
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Re:Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photo... by neave on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @02:26AM (#23904752)
You’re exactly right. Sentinel Hub process a huge amount of data in real time, so it’s no small feat.
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