Earth Viewer 2.2

Earth Viewer
Animated planet Earth with live weather, satellite data, global forecast and historical data. The application visualizes also datasets useful for global warming monitoring.

How to use: Tap the three dots at the upper right-hand corner (settings), and select a satellite view, it will then download for a few moments (need internet access, be patient) then tap the play/pause and see the weather in motion.

Open source: https://github.com/H21lab/Earth-Viewer

Imagery included:

• Climate Reanalyzer weather forecast
  • World GFS Precipitation and Clouds (+48h)
  • World GFS Air Temperature (+48h)
  • World GFS Air Temperature Anomaly (+48h)
  • World GFS Precipitable Water (+48h)
  • World GFS Surface Wind Speed (+48h)
  • World GFS Jetstream Wind Speed (+48h)
• Climate Reanalyzer historical data / Global warming monitoring:
  • CCI Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly OISST v2 (past 182 days)
• METEOSAT 0 degree satellite
  • Airmass realtime imagery (-24h, generated every 1h)
  • Airmass realtime imagery full resolution (-6h, generated every 1h)
  • IR 10.8 (-24h, generated every 1h)
• METEOSAT IODC satellite
  • IR 10.8 (-24h, generated every 3h)
• SSEC
  • Infrared low-res global composite (-1w, generated every 3h)
  • Water vapor low-res global composite (-1w, generated every 3h)
• NOAA
  • Aurora 30 Minute Forecast Northern Hemisphere (-24h)
  • Aurora 30 Minute Forecast Southern Hemisphere (-24h)

Application features:

• Interpolation between images
• Imagery selection from the menu
• Live sunlight
• Bump mapping
• Data cache for offline use
• Double tap will stop/play animation

Copyright and credit

• CCI data has been obtained using Climate Reanalyzer (http://cci-reanalyzer.org), Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, USA.
• NRL DATA has been obtained using United States Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division (http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil)
• All METEOSAT images shown in the application are subject to EUMETSAT copyright.
• For all NASA GOES images credit to NOAA-NASA GOES Project.
• For all MTSAT images credit to Japan Meteorological Agency.
• For all SSEC images provided courtesy of University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center.

Limitations

On some devices application will not launch and crash report is seen. This is caused in most cases by low graphical card capabilities or a low amount of memory on the target device. The application uses OpenGL ES 2.0 and extensive pixel shader with multitexturing.

The application is distributed as a local image viewer which accesses publicly available content from the internet on behalf of the user. Data are internally cached and only delta is downloaded. There is no guarantee for the availability of the downloaded data, and the application also works without internet connectivity.

The program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.