GeoColor satellite imagery competition - zoom.earth & Ventusky
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Hi Windy team,
Another website I check for satellite imagery is https://zoom.earth/ because it has a few functions that Windy doesn't have (yet) haha
I know adding these functions into Windy would greatly help with weather forecasting and attract more users to stay within Windy for an over all experience.
Two functions that zoom.earth uses that I'd like to see Windy also add are:
1 - True colour global satellite imagery from the same sources that zoom.earth uses (NOAA GOES, JMA Himawari-8 & EUMETSAT Meteosat) that are updated every 10mins.
2 - HD satellite images produced twice daily from Suomi-NPP, and MODIS Aqua and Terra.
Hopefully we'll see these functions added into Windy in the near future?
Thank again Windy team :)
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@anthony10 Hello, thank you for input. We do plan to improve satellite in the future.
Korina
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@Korina Any news about implementing new satellite layers to Windy
(True Colour, Radar overlay, Ice/Flood/Fire, Enhanced Infrared etc?).I'm really excited to see Satellite added to the 3D view too.
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@anthony10 I cannot share any details at the moment. We are currently focusing on different tasks.
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@Korina Hi Korina, any news on implementing some features that https://zoom.earth/ offer into Windy?
I’m really enjoying using their true colour satellite animation which shows 3, 6, 12 & 24 hour time-lapse.
I’m also using their HD Time Machine feature that shows single day satellite images from the Aqua and Terra satellites.
Zoom Earth even has radar & satellite combined!
I’d really implore Windy team to focus on improving the Satellite component of the platform as other websites are far more ahead.
Thanks Windy Team.
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@anthony10
I put Windy sat. image side by side with Zoom Earth
and I find Windy's images more detailed
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I completely agree with you. I took these screenshots on Saturday. That of Windy brings much more detail to the clouds in particular. This is what we look for in a satellite image.
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I’m wondering if there have been any further developments regarding the implementation of true colour imagery from Himawari in Windy’s satellite layer.
Currently, I rely on zoom.earth for Himawari’s true colour satellite images as well as daily HD images from Aqua and Terra satellites (personal preference).
Given that zoom.earth displays true colour, I’m curious if Windy could easily incorporate true colour alongside its existing layers.
https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=-29.5,158.5,4z/date=2024-02-21,08:20,+11
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🛰🗺 There´s another complication beyond the satellite-data.
Length of equator = 40000 km, tropics = 36.800 km, polar circles = 16.000 km,
Cylindrical projection needs some stretching towards the poles. So dimensions of weathersystems get distorted, too.
The sharpness is somehow like optical zoom vs digital zoom.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Worlds_animate.gif/220px-Worlds_animate.gif -
@anthony10 Are we ever going to see our Blue Marble planet via satellite (NOAA GOES & JMA Himawari) in true colour? I know for some people it doesn't compare (maybe the data needs tweaking) but to see our gorgeous planet with all its colours and shades, Windy needs to display it in true colour and what would be the icing on the cake - display the satellite images in 2D & 3D!!
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@anthony10 It would be amazing IF Windy was the first weather provider to blend all the possible satellite operator's imagery data onto the 3D view AND obviously make it playable. No other weather provider I can think of does this. I would imagine that this would make Windy more attractive to users.
rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu
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@anthony10 Another competitor has a great Satellite layer + controls.
Ventusky is showing our beautiful blue planet in its true colours with their satellite layer. They even have wind particle animation overlayed on the satellite view.
Come on Windy team :)
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@Caefix It seems like NOAA have figured out how to display the distorted satellite images beautifully.
They have a real-time 3D global displaying the weather with a few other layers.
Being able to spin the global and zoom in it incredible.
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/imagery/interactive-maps/the-world-real-time
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@anthony10
Have you tried the visible channel in Windy?
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@anthony10 said in True satellite imagery competition - zoom.earth & Ventusky:
They even have wind particle animation overlayed on the satellite view.
Yes, but ... wind particles reffer to wind at 10m.
Clouds are (usually) higher!
So, wind particles may draw wrong conclusions
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@Gkikas-LGPZ I have and while all the layers Windy provides are useful in their certain ways, having a true colour layer that shows all the different colours happening on the ground is just magic. Being able to see snow cover or flooded areas or burn areas from wild fires or algae blooms or storm coastal destruction can only really be seen via true colour.
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@Gkikas-LGPZ that is true, I didn’t think of that. I guess if there was a clear disclaimer saying ‘particles are shows at 10m high’ would be helpful.
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@anthony10
By comparing windy's BLU with Ventusky's Satellite (visible?)
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@Gkikas-LGPZ I do agree but I would guess that Windy devs have sharpened the cloud imagery to help look better and if looking at cloud imagery is what some people like then that’s ok.
But it’s not the point I’m making with this post, I and I’m certainly sure others would like to see our planet in true colour.
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@anthony10
"Visible" is not "true colour" ?
What's the diference?
