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For anyone who is interested in just getting satellite imagery (though I understand the fun of pulling it out of the air), NOAA makes the GOES imagery available

For anyone who is interested in just getting satellite imagery (though I understand the fun of pulling it out of the air), NOAA makes the GOES imagery available online from static web addresses. https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2500x1500.jpg https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2... This link will always be the most recent shot of the continental US from GOES-16 (which is currently GOES-EAST) https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES18/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2500x1500.jpg https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES18/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2... This link will always be the most recent shot of the Pacific and West Coast US from GOES-17 (which is currently GOES-WEST) If you go to the base directories you can hunt around for different resolutions or for all kinds of other products, like full-disk images or even the lightning mapper. I used to have a script that pulled the CONUS and FD (Full Disk) shots every 10 minutes. The goal was to auto-update my desktop wallpaper to the most recent imagery, but that proved to be frustratingly annoying to implement. Still, it was very cool to have an entire years worth of imagery at 10 minute intervals when I left it abandoned and it just kept running.

enriquto 3y ago
> For anyone who is interested in just getting satellite imagery (though I understand the fun of pulling it out of the air) If you download satellite images from the internet, but you are connected via wifi, you are still pulling them out of the air, aren't you? Behold the amazing Copernicus program, paid for by all European citizens: https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/ https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/ It provides a nice API to download many satellite images in bulk: optical, radar, multispectral and hyperspectral images of various types are available for free. That's about one TB of Earth images acquired per hour, and all of them are archived for ever and for all to see.
dylan604 3y ago
with a fun little shell script, you can curl/wget your way into doing this automagically for you.* i did this with imagery for NASA images to create custom timelapse sequences of the sun from SOHO. they have a similar fixed folder structure for the frequency filters and image dimensions. it created an art exhibit that would keep the previous 24 hours of data current. *beware, using wget will prove you are evilHacker in certain jurisdictions. /s
Solvency 3y ago
Is it possible to build a smooth hires animation of these? How often are the images updated?
- dabluecaboose 3y ago
  Every ~10 minutes. It looks pretty smooth. NOAA/NESDIS actually has animations posted on their website: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/conus_band.php?sat=G16&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24 https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/conus_band.php?sat=G16...
  - Solvency 3y ago
    Too bad there's no way to hide the ugly pixelated state/country borders to just see the beautiful raw photography.
    - dabluecaboose 3y ago
      The Full-Disk images don't have the baked-in borders: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G16&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12 https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk_band.php?sat=...
- lxe 3y ago
  https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/ https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/ has a UI for this
mthoms 3y ago
Do you still have the image archive? I started collecting them at New Years with a script (Goes x 2, Himiwari-8, EU Metsat) and would love to be able to get older imagery. I'm more than happy to pay for any bandwidth costs, etc if you can share the archive.
- dabluecaboose 3y ago
  I don't, unfortunately. It occurred to me that I wasn't doing anything with the almost terabyte of images and didn't even have any ideas of what I would do, so I deleted it.
  - mthoms 3y ago
    No worries. It is indeed tons of data. I've already stored 200GB+ and I just started on Jan 1st.
- redavni 3y ago
  Google Cloud and AWS host the netcdf GOES archives among others. They are all there. https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/noaa-public/goes?pli=1 https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/noaa-pu...
  - mthoms 3y ago
    I appreciate the response, this is good to know. I apologize for not being clearer but what I'm specifically looking for is the "GeoColor" full-disk imagery [0], which I don't think is archived anywhere (beyond a couple weeks worth). That imagery is generated from the raw data you linked, but sadly the code isn't publicly available. There is a good amount of material around the techniques used to generate the GeoColor images [1][2] but understanding it well enough to implement it is a little above me. If any HN'er can code up something like this, I'd definitely be interested in talking with them. [0] https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G16&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12 https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=... [1] https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/documents/QuickGuide_CIRA_Geocolor_20171019.pdf https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/documents/QuickGuide_C... [2] https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/37/3/JTECH-D-19-0134.1.xml https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/37/3/JTECH-D...
cocostation 3y ago
Most commercial EO vendors have imagery sets freely available. https://www.maxar.com/open-data https://www.maxar.com/open-data https://www.capellaspace.com/gallery/ https://www.capellaspace.com/gallery/ You need to apply for a key here: https://developers.planet.com/open/ https://developers.planet.com/open/ AWS Hosts Earth Observation data here: https://registry.opendata.aws/?search=tags:gis,earth%20observation,events,mapping,meteorological,environmental,transportation https://registry.opendata.aws/?search=tags:gis,earth%20obser... Also, Microsofts Plantary Computer has a bunch of open data as well.
lxe 3y ago
I use the CSU's RAMMB SLIDER UI at https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/ https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/

enriquto 3y ago

> For anyone who is interested in just getting satellite imagery (though I understand the fun of pulling it out of the air) If you download satellite images from the internet, but you are connected via wifi, you are still pulling them out of the air, aren't you? Behold the amazing Copernicus program, paid for by all European citizens: https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/ https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/ It provides a nice API to download many satellite images in bulk: optical, radar, multispectral and hyperspectral images of various types are available for free. That's about one TB of Earth images acquired per hour, and all of them are archived for ever and for all to see.

dylan604 3y ago

with a fun little shell script, you can curl/wget your way into doing this automagically for you.* i did this with imagery for NASA images to create custom timelapse sequences of the sun from SOHO. they have a similar fixed folder structure for the frequency filters and image dimensions. it created an art exhibit that would keep the previous 24 hours of data current. *beware, using wget will prove you are evilHacker in certain jurisdictions. /s

Solvency 3y ago

Is it possible to build a smooth hires animation of these? How often are the images updated?

dabluecaboose 3y ago
Every ~10 minutes. It looks pretty smooth. NOAA/NESDIS actually has animations posted on their website: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/conus_band.php?sat=G16&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24 https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/conus_band.php?sat=G16...
- Solvency 3y ago
  Too bad there's no way to hide the ugly pixelated state/country borders to just see the beautiful raw photography.
  - dabluecaboose 3y ago
    The Full-Disk images don't have the baked-in borders: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G16&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12 https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk_band.php?sat=...
lxe 3y ago
https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/ https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/ has a UI for this

mthoms 3y ago

Do you still have the image archive? I started collecting them at New Years with a script (Goes x 2, Himiwari-8, EU Metsat) and would love to be able to get older imagery. I'm more than happy to pay for any bandwidth costs, etc if you can share the archive.

dabluecaboose 3y ago
I don't, unfortunately. It occurred to me that I wasn't doing anything with the almost terabyte of images and didn't even have any ideas of what I would do, so I deleted it.
- mthoms 3y ago
  No worries. It is indeed tons of data. I've already stored 200GB+ and I just started on Jan 1st.
redavni 3y ago
Google Cloud and AWS host the netcdf GOES archives among others. They are all there. https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/noaa-public/goes?pli=1 https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/noaa-pu...
- mthoms 3y ago
  I appreciate the response, this is good to know. I apologize for not being clearer but what I'm specifically looking for is the "GeoColor" full-disk imagery [0], which I don't think is archived anywhere (beyond a couple weeks worth). That imagery is generated from the raw data you linked, but sadly the code isn't publicly available. There is a good amount of material around the techniques used to generate the GeoColor images [1][2] but understanding it well enough to implement it is a little above me. If any HN'er can code up something like this, I'd definitely be interested in talking with them. [0] https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G16&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12 https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=... [1] https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/documents/QuickGuide_CIRA_Geocolor_20171019.pdf https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/documents/QuickGuide_C... [2] https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/37/3/JTECH-D-19-0134.1.xml https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/37/3/JTECH-D...

cocostation 3y ago

Most commercial EO vendors have imagery sets freely available. https://www.maxar.com/open-data https://www.maxar.com/open-data https://www.capellaspace.com/gallery/ https://www.capellaspace.com/gallery/ You need to apply for a key here: https://developers.planet.com/open/ https://developers.planet.com/open/ AWS Hosts Earth Observation data here: https://registry.opendata.aws/?search=tags:gis,earth%20observation,events,mapping,meteorological,environmental,transportation https://registry.opendata.aws/?search=tags:gis,earth%20obser... Also, Microsofts Plantary Computer has a bunch of open data as well.

lxe 3y ago

I use the CSU's RAMMB SLIDER UI at https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/ https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/