Future access to the Satellite Receiving Station about cloudmap HOT 21 CLOSED

If anyone is interested in running their own script to generate cloud maps, here is a simple python script I put together. The output with the default settings will produce a 4096*2048 image identical to that produced by this project.

The script is here https://gist.github.com/krkeegan/64e96290eb6569790d230085016501da

Happy coding!

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Hi all - apologies for resurrecting an old issue. I've been looking for cloud maps for a project and was sad to see that you lost your data source. I've built a new project which generates and hosts daily cloud maps from NASA (NOAA/VIIRS) data which might be of interest to some of you: https://github.com/matteason/daily-cloud-maps

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There are some possible sources for images:
Overview of services: https://dbaron.org/sat/comp/

https://www.aviationweather.gov/satellite (all images seem to have a grid overlayed)

https://a.atmos.washington.edu/data/weather.html#satellite (also with grid)
https://atmos.uw.edu/cgi-bin/latest.cgi?ir-moll

https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/#/animation?satellite=fy2g

https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/#/animation?satellite=goes-17-fusion&end_datetime=latest&n_images=1&coverage=fd&channel=12&image_quality=gif&anim_method=javascript

The latter also has coast lines overlayed. But it seems to be the complete collection of images. Unfortunately, it does not give any license/usage information.

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@matteason you are the hero we needed! 😄

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See https://github.com/matteason/live-cloud-maps/

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Damned, we certainly will need a new source of cloud maps.

It is quite amazing that our taxes are used to finance the satellites producing these maps, but we cannot actually get the bloody maps afterwards, they do not seem to be public domain...

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The dundee website seems really be dead since end of August ("Inactive since 21 Aug 2019")

For a first implementation to use a new image source see apollo-ng/cloudmap#1

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Another source:
https://en.allmetsat.com/index.html

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And yet another source:
https://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/global.cgi

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Things move. Have you seen those ones? Very nice, full disk very high resolution, a lot of channel, free download:

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk.php?sat=G16
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk.php?sat=G17

Still we would need some equivalent over Europe and Japan, something that does not suck in terms of resolution.

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For hardcore enthusiasts, but still GEOS:

https://pietern.github.io/goestools/guides/minimal_receiver.html#minimal-receiver

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This rocks too:
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/

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I guess, I will wait how this works out:
http://www.dundeesat.co.uk/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/02/dundee_satellite_station/

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I have used this project for ages. @jmozmoz thank you for all of the amazing work!

I have spent the last few weeks trying to track down various reliable sources of full disk images. There are a lot of sporadic locations that maybe one could piece together, but it will always be prone to breaking when one location goes offline or changes, as we have seen.

In the process I found RealEarth from the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center http://re.ssec.wisc.edu/. RealEarth has a web api for requesting and downloading the images we need http://re.ssec.wisc.edu/doc/api.php. In addition, they also provide a tiling service that provides the images directly without requiring any API http://re.ssec.wisc.edu/doc/dataaccess.php#tiles.

Without any account, they allow 500MB per day of downloading, which seems to be metered by IP address. Additionally, with a free account they allow up to 1GB per day.

They do offer the full disk images, albeit in a projected form. And one could download each and perform the appropriate high latitude cleanup and blending.

But they also offer a full IR band composite image of the world updated every hour http://re.ssec.wisc.edu/products/globalir. The stitching is pretty good and could probably be massaged relatively easily with a mask if desired. They offer various zoom levels. At zoom level 5 you have to download 512 images at 256x256 resolution each for a total resolution of 8192x8192. This seems to be about the max by my eye. The total download size is about 23MB. This means you could do the download once per hour with an account and stay well under the 1GB daily limit.

I made a mockup of the collage here https://krkeegan.github.io/realearth-example.html. It may take a minute for everything to download, and you make have to zoom out in your browser.

I think I am going to make a simply python script with PIL to download and stitch these images once per hour. It is going to be very basic. I am happy to contribute help to anyone else if they want to start a repo, but my python is all self taught so I don't have the know-how to make a proper package and such.

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Thanks for the link krkeegan!
For clouds.boff.in, it is not in my style to accept stolen things. No code available, no licence available, data taken from "some" public domain, and the guy asked for some money!? WTF...

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@krkeegan your script in that gist is ace! Thank you so much, just integrated it and I have a beautiful desktop background again :-)

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Thanks @krkeegan. FYI it is working with python 3.7.3.

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@krkeegan great on 3.8.5, very much appreciated. xplanetFX is back on my monitors, thank you

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