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  • tombrossman55 minutes ago
    Do any European space agencies make live weather imagery available at high resolution? I&#x27;m looking for a direct link to JPEGs that update regularly, to use with a cron script to use as desktop wallpaper.<p>I can easily do this for North America using imagery here, for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov&#x2F;GOES&#x2F;conus.php?sat=G16" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov&#x2F;GOES&#x2F;conus.php?sat=G16</a> (bonus, imagery is Public Domain).<p>This direct link provides an updated image every five minutes, with even higher resolution available if you like: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov&#x2F;GOES19&#x2F;ABI&#x2F;CONUS&#x2F;GEOCOLOR&#x2F;20262201401_GOES19-ABI-CONUS-GEOCOLOR-5000x3000.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov&#x2F;GOES19&#x2F;ABI&#x2F;CONUS&#x2F;GEOCOLOR&#x2F;2...</a><p>Every time I revisit this idea and look for western Europe, I find nothing. Or, very low resolution, or some clunky, proprietary &quot;viewer&quot; forced on users. Is there really nothing similar for Europe?
    • BlackRabbit150 minutes ago
      You can receive a lot of weather satellites with self-build equipment utilizing the tool &quot;SatDump&quot;. But: the good old times of 137MHz analog satellite pictures are over. We talking about digital high-rate X-Band stuff (~8GHz) that requires auto-tracked dishes here.<p>Sentiel-2 data can be pulled for free from the Copernicus service. It&#x27;s a LEO sat and you often get a picture every 2 days of the same region.<p>DWD (German Meteo Service) offers a metric ton of data on their FTP Server as public data.
    • plantain46 minutes ago
      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;highsight.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;highsight.dev&#x2F;</a> should work for that!
  • maelito3 hours ago
    In case someone wants NASA firms wildfire 7 day vector tiles : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;serveur.cartes.app&#x2F;pmtiles&#x2F;MODIS_C6_1_Global_7d.pmtiles" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;serveur.cartes.app&#x2F;pmtiles&#x2F;MODIS_C6_1_Global_7d.pmtil...</a>
  • Retr0id4 hours ago
    &gt; Now Copernicus Browser has also added a straightforward “wildfires” visualization layer for Sentinel-2 imagery that went live on August 4.<p>I feel like an idiot, I can&#x27;t figure out how to enable it. Currently I use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firemap.live&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firemap.live&#x2F;</a> for tracking local wildfires (which isn&#x27;t something I ever needed to track, prior to this year)
    • dbdr3 hours ago
      On the left Panel, change Configuration: Default to Wildfires and press the green arrow. You can then select various fire-related layers.
      • Retr0id3 hours ago
        Ah, I didn&#x27;t realize that dropdown was scrollable! (I should find the browser setting to force scroll bars back on again...)
    • lnenad1 hour ago
      It&#x27;s also a warzone visualization tool unintentionally.
    • amelius1 hour ago
      It also shows certain industrial areas like steel plants as &quot;on fire&quot;.