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Jul 21 2015, 05:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1669 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Here is a real-time full color view of the Earth from the Himawari satellite, updated every half hour or so. This geostationary weather satellite is stationed over the longitude of Japan. The view is complete with orange sunglint off the ocean. You can click on the link to see the latest update.
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/gms/largec.html?ar...=1&mode=UTC I previously posted this high resolution sample image in the Whole Earth Images thread. We can look around for the full resolution real-time data archive that would be about 11000 pixels wide. -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Sep 29 2015, 08:44 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 15-February 14 Member No.: 7141 |
Ask, and you shall receive I just uploaded some videos to this playlist for a cropped region that includes Eastern China and Taiwan, and there are some pretty incredible views of Typhoon Dujuan taking aim at Taiwan from the past few days. I'll upload another one tonight with the most recent images. Usual disclaimer applies - make sure you set the quality to 1080p60. I've noticed that this quality setting seems to "stick" better in Chrome than in other browsers, FWIW.
I've gotten my Youtube upload script working fairly well, and now I'm in the process of rendering/uploading lots of daily videos to that one and these 3 other regional playlists: Japan/Korea/Beijing/Shanghai, Thailand/Philippines (+others), and Indonesia/Malaysia/Singapore. They each have almost a month of data now. I have a few more regions to work on - namely Australia, since it doesn't fit natively in my 1920x1080 crop window, I'll have to do a larger view and then downscale before creating the video (either that or split Australia across two regions). I'm also planning a couple of crops of different regions of the Pacific Ocean, since that's where a lot of the big storms initially form. I'm still playing with the format of the Youtube channel, so let me know if you have feedback. Primarily I'm wondering whether the regional playlists should be in chronological order, so you can see the whole time span if you play from the beginning, or in reverse order so the newest videos are always at the top. I think I'm leaning towards reverse order; the oldest images in the RAMMB dataset have some weird processing applied, and I don't really want those at the top of the playlist. I suppose I could have two playlists per region, one for each order, but that may be confusing. I'm also considering rolling up the dailies into weekly videos for these playlists, so the videos are longer and you spend less time loading. However, I really like the immediacy of being able to see "yesterday from space" every day so I would probably upload them in addition to the dailies. This also confuses the playlist order issue a bit because, if the playlist uses weekly videos in reverse order, you'd see a week chronologically, followed by the previous week chronologically, etc... Anyway, hope you enjoy! I haven't made progress yet on hosting the original video files somewhere, but I haven't forgotten about it, will look into it more soon. |
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Oct 16 2015, 07:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1669 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Anyway, hope you enjoy! I haven't made progress yet on hosting the original video files somewhere, but I haven't forgotten about it, will look into it more soon. I enjoy these so much I miss them when they are missing/garbled as from the past couple of days. There's a typhoon setting up east of the Philippines. -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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