Re:Show HN: Realtime Geostationary Earth Imagery
by TimBurr on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:29PM
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Earth from space, as of ~30 minutes ago.
This visualization uses imagery provided by GOES-R, a geostationary earth-observing satellite, to generate near-realtime true-color images of the earth at (fairly) high resolution. (There's also animated video, top-left.)
NOAA provides raw data from the GOES satellites available in AWS and Google Cloud, if you want to play with/remix it. The source data is incredibly high resolution - 100 or 400 megapixels, depending on layer. Significantally better than the imagery weather.gov exposes. Everything's provided as netCDF, but it takes some time to find the layer you're looking for.
The source code is on GitHub. It's built with a Python backend and some pretty simple javascript to handle auto-refreshing.Should be fairly simple to hack around with.
This visualization uses imagery provided by GOES-R, a geostationary earth-observing satellite, to generate near-realtime true-color images of the earth at (fairly) high resolution. (There's also animated video, top-left.)
NOAA provides raw data from the GOES satellites available in AWS and Google Cloud, if you want to play with/remix it. The source data is incredibly high resolution - 100 or 400 megapixels, depending on layer. Significantally better than the imagery weather.gov exposes. Everything's provided as netCDF, but it takes some time to find the layer you're looking for.
- https://www.noaa.gov/organization/information-technology/lis...
- https://storage.cloud.google.com/gcp-public-data-goes-16/ (ABI-L2-CMIPF is the product I use)
The source code is on GitHub. It's built with a Python backend and some pretty simple javascript to handle auto-refreshing.Should be fairly simple to hack around with.
- https://github.com/bnitkin/goesr-video
Hope y'all think space imaging is as cool as I do!