2022/02/23

Open Weather Initiative Democatizes Climate Crisis Satellite Data

“The way you position your antenna and even your body are recorded in the image as signal and noise. This means each image is unique to the person and place that created it.”
Open Weather’s Sasha Engelmann and Sophie Dyer, on setting up your own “DIY satellite ground station.” Using a basic V-shaped antenna, a dongle, and free software, anyone can receive images from the public data broadcast of the orbiting NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) satellites, they write.
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