What I liked about this is the forecast feature of the movement of clouds/cyclones in the oceans:
For example here: https://zoom.earth/storms/douglas-2020/#layers=labels
Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface
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Re: Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’d love to, but their API is currently cost prohibitive for a free-to-use website.
Oh, that's interesting. ESA says they distribute the Sentinel data free of charge as far as I can tell. So I guess the issue is that you'd need to download and host the data yourself, rather than just do an API call to someone else's archive? Anyway, it's a cool website, nice work!
Yeah and hosting it by yourself is slightly non-trivial as the storage requirements are in the PB range.
Re: Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface
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Sure, that's fair. But what / who then are they trying to sell the idea of with the phrase "live"? Is any average person really interested in a "live" view of the whole Earth, such that it would be meaningfully different or changed compared to the static blue marble photo we're all familiar with? I think we all know what we're interested in when we think of "live"... things at the <<1km level.
I for one would love to get a live view of the lineup at my nearest grocery store.
Back when drones were a relatively new thing and I lived in a country where people don't get upset about this kind of thing, we sent a drone down to see how busy our local pub was.
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Well the only way to get “live” imagery at any level of perceptible detail is to be a three letter agency. Even the highest levels of private sector aren’t tasking satellites with that level of latency.
Sure, that's fair. But what / who then are they trying to sell the idea of with the phrase "live"? Is any average person really interested in a "live" view of the whole Earth, such that it would be meaningfully different or changed compared to the static blue marble photo we're all familiar with? I think we all know what we're interested in when we think of "live"... things at the <<1km level.
I mean if I could look at myself sitting in my own garden it would be unimaginably awesome.
Re: Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface
#75This reminds me of a story.. A friend of mine was putting in a subdial and phoned up some gov department to find out the lat and long for his property.. after being put through about 5 different departments the last guy he got said "where do you want it?" And he repeated his address, the guy rhen said " no I mean where in your back garden? Go out side and stand where you are going to install it and i will give you th…
nice prank
Re: Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface
#76Sailor here. Thank you.
Re: Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface
#77This reminds me of a story.. A friend of mine was putting in a subdial and phoned up some gov department to find out the lat and long for his property.. after being put through about 5 different departments the last guy he got said "where do you want it?" And he repeated his address, the guy rhen said " no I mean where in your back garden? Go out side and stand where you are going to install it and i will give you th…
funny, but what is a "subdial" ?
Re: Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface
#78I wouldn't call it the "live" you would expect (although depends on what you were expecting -- I wasn't honestly expecting a live view of "anywhere on Earth", but at least some level of detail). As soon as you zoom in to any level of It's more like a "live" view if you were to look at the entire Earth at once from the Apollo capsule...
Well the only way to get “live” imagery at any level of perceptible detail is to be a three letter agency. Even the highest levels of private sector aren’t tasking satellites with that level of latency.
If you aren't a TLA there are options. Planet SkySat will give you 50cm resolution twice daily if you have budget[1].
Planet, Digitalglobe[2], Airbus[3] and others will give you similar or better without the ability to task collection.
[1] https://www.planet.com/50cm/
Re: Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellite photos of earths surface
#79I've always wanted a physical globe with real-time high-res clouds. That is my personal marker of "oh, the future has arrived"
I'd imagine you could build something like this but it would get harder the smaller it is. Some sort of plastic sphere with rear projection from multiple projectors inside, warped to fit the globe (the more projectors, the more even focus would be around the full area of the globe). Project live sat imagery on inside of globe and view from outside.
I guess ideally it would use some fancy-pants spherical OLED to get around projection issues but I don't know if such a thing has ever been fabricated yet.
edit: just looked this up and apparently there have been spherical OLED displays and most search results are, indeed, demoed with globes.
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#80I may be mistaken but seems like you can see the dust cloud moving south from NYC if you go to 9/11/2001 AM