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So GOES looks to be an imagery satellite, right? And LRIT is some aspect of it's method of communication? A few explanatory words in the title here, at the be
by lallysingh 8y ago
So GOES looks to be an imagery satellite, right? And LRIT is some aspect of it's method of communication?
A few explanatory words in the title here, at the beginning of the article would really help. I'm surprised it made first page without them. The author's work is rather cool, though!
- lxe 8y ago[GOES-R/GOES-16](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES-16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES-16) as well as [GOES-S/GOES-17](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES-17 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES-17) are geostationary weather satellites operated by the NOAA. They broadcast some of their imagery using a format they call LRIT or HRIT (High Rate Information Transmission). You can follow this guide to build a receiver using inexpensive components to tap into that stream.
- brian-armstrong 8y agoSorry, I deeplinked to a part of the docs that doesn't necessarily put everything in context. Mostly I thought the library and hardware setup are really cool, and that Earth imagery is spectacular