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Your Ultimate Guide to Wrangling Satellite Data
Weather- and land data is unique and gaining importance
The weather is probably the world’s oldest ice-breaker (excuse the pun). It’s also more important than ever: more 55 percent of the world’s economy . These resources grow and perish with the fluctuations of the weather.
Because of climate change, more and more natural resources are at risk. We depend on these to power just about everything from food to textiles to building materials, so being exposed to weather extremes really isn’t that great.
But this post isn’t about climate change or weather threats. What you’ll learn in this post can be used to examine that. For now, however, I’d like to show you how to use weather data.
Luckily, high-quality open access weather data exists and can be retrieved by anyone. It’s mostly satellite data but can also come in the from weather stations and other sources. Aside from pure weather data, you can often also access data relating to land use, soil health, urbanization, or vegetation levels through those same channels.
Where to Get Satellite Weather Data?
We’ll be focusing on public data sources here. Commercial satellite data is available, notably…
