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Show HN: Realtime Geostationary Earth Imagery

6 pointsby TimBurrover 4 years ago

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TimBurrover 4 years ago
Earth from space, as of ~30 minutes ago.<p>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&#x27;s also animated video, top-left.)<p>NOAA provides raw data from the GOES satellites available in AWS and Google Cloud, if you want to play with&#x2F;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&#x27;s provided as netCDF, but it takes some time to find the layer you&#x27;re looking for.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.noaa.gov&#x2F;organization&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;list-of-big-data-program-datasets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.noaa.gov&#x2F;organization&#x2F;information-technology&#x2F;lis...</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;storage.cloud.google.com&#x2F;gcp-public-data-goes-16&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;storage.cloud.google.com&#x2F;gcp-public-data-goes-16&#x2F;</a> (ABI-L2-CMIPF is the product I use)<p>The source code is on GitHub. It&#x27;s built with a Python backend and some pretty simple javascript to handle auto-refreshing.Should be fairly simple to hack around with.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bnitkin&#x2F;goesr-video" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bnitkin&#x2F;goesr-video</a><p>Hope y&#x27;all think space imaging is as cool as I do!
flurlyover 4 years ago
Nice work Tim! What tech stack did you use to build this?
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