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High Resolution Infrared Satellite of the NOVAC areaThis loop displays the past couple of hour's worth of Infrared GOES satellite (via NASA) imagary of the NOVAC area. The view is zoomed in to show high resolution. These images are usually updated at the every fifteen minutes, starting at the top of the hour. Because we don't know exactly when the images arrive on the NASA server, there will likely be some lag time and/or dupliates. You can use the controls to zoom in, pan around, skip select images, rock from start-end-start and also add an overlay that displays county lines. If you are having problems seeing this loop and use Microsoft Internet Explorer, you might need to install the Java plug in available from http://www.java.com/. Page maintained by Bob Bunge (bbunge@ladyandtramp.com). Please send questions, comments and reports of broken images to Bob. See bottom of page for more technical details.
These images are from the wonderful NASA Global Hydrology and Climate Center website. I've been a fan of this website for years. But I had always wanted to loop the zoomed in, high res, images of the DC area. So with the magic of open source tools like linux, wget, imagemagik and the like, I wrote some scripts on my home linux box to pull down the IR and VIS images and build a loop using a niffy Java applet. I ran this on my home system for a bit and then decided it would be fun put it on the NOVAC website. So, here the process: I use wget to grab the images and a shell script to move them around and rename them. Imagemagik is then used to resize and build the thumbnail image. Older images are renamed for the java loop. The newest image is then uploaded to the NOVAC website. We'll see how well this works! Bob Bunge, Nov, 2003 |
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