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Watching Hurricanes Irma, Jose and Katia From Above Earth

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Re: Watching Hurricanes Irma, Jose and Katia From Above Earth

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn't one that I'm aware of ... yet. That said, the raw data is available through an S3-compatible service, here: https://osdc.rcc.uchicago.edu/noaa-goes16 With documentation about how to navigate and use the files here: http://edc.occ-data.org/goes16/getdata/ So it would be possible to script together something that cooks out a nice high-rez full disc image every 15 minutes. For fun, here's one of the full dis…

What would be the latency of the images?

Depends the way you look at it. The final data is generally available within a couple minutes, but the data itself is not collected instantaneously. At least for the full-disk scenes, the collection takes 11 minutes so the top of the image is captured 11 minutes before the bottom.

Re: Watching Hurricanes Irma, Jose and Katia From Above Earth

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Wow, just wow. I didn't realize there finally are more cameras that can provide this image quality in space, beyond the one that is (was?) on the ISS. Also kudos to NYT for the way they put it together. I'm mesmerized by the globe video.

Are there any equivalent satellites over Australia?

Himawari-8 covers Australia. You can view today's imagery at https://himawari8.nict.go.jp/
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