Geostationary Earth Pictures
I was watching one of my favourite YouTubers, TheThoughtEmporium
, who makes very interesting videos demonstrating radio, biology and laser projects, and his most recent video was talking about free resources available to anyone.
In this video, he mentions [this website](https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu, which is run by CIRA, the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, who work closely with NOAA. This website provides easy access to the satellite images provided by 6 different satellites.
I loved how high-quality these images are, and I was already having ideas about what I could do with them. First, however, I needed to be able to download them in high resolution. After looking at the web development tools, I saw the network requests for the different zoom levels, and at that point it wasn't too hard to scrape all of the images, and re-assemble them into one large image.
I also made it resize the image to be a lot smaller, so that they are more friendly to networks. Here is the latest image that my server has:
I have plans for what to use these images for in the future, but I haven't started work on those projects yet.
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