App Profile: GOES Viewer

Melodicly

Rating: 5/5

I’m not sure that’s ones even available now but it felt like from 2005 lol. Anyway, this is perfect, easy, zooms well, animation is actually accurate and smooth and it’s very hires. A win!

owndao

Rating: 4/5

NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite imagery is so refreshing to see. The constellation of geostationary Earth observation imagers is what is really happening now, not months ago as Google Earth sees fit to refresh theirs. I’m very happy to be able to see the latest snapshot as well as the recent history, shareable as GIFs. Different zones, mainly of the North American continent and surrounding ocean along with coverage of the major ocean routes for cyclonic activity are very welcome to see. A wish list would include infrared for cloud penetration and temperatures, CO2 content, etc.. Ultimately, in an integrated, easily navigable, zoom in view. I realize that this will require a good deal of optical topographical manipulation and downloads with real-time updating will be a major effort and sounds like a remake of Google Earth but the timeliness of this imagery and its lack of the overload of generating pretty yet over-processed old data will make it stand apart. Thank you for creating this. It doesn’t have to be a big money project to allow us all to see in one place us looking back at our world. This is something long overdue.

celery beetle

Rating: 5/5

Made accessing GOES images super easy. Would be cool to access image history as well. Developer: have you approached NOAA to solicit funding for further development? Or maybe sell the app to them for them to develop further?