Pulling Clear Images Directly Off Satellites | GOES-15,16,17 and Himawari 8 HRIT on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2018–2023.
tutorial · intermediate · evergreen
The Thought Emporium shows how to receive clear images directly from GOES-15, 16 and 17 and Himawari 8 geostationary weather satellites with software-defined radio. It covers the extra effort needed to receive GOES data.
HN commenters credit it for inspiring their own satellite-reception hobby and praise the channel's high-quality content.
“The Thought Emporium makes really high quality content.”
4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
The sequel to this video: ▶ this video The Thought Emporium makes really high quality content. He does a lot of things, most recently covering things in metal, but in the past they have made videos on gene editing, growing opals, and making holograms. It’s a lot of different topics, all presented very well.
in “How to pull images from satellites in orbit” · View on HN
I'm in the process of setting up an antenna for receiving data from the GOES-15 weather satellite. I'm just starting out but got inspired after watching this video (no affiliation with the channel). ▶ this video People have been able to get some stunning pictures of the earth from those satellites. Examples: [link] [link] [link] If you're interested, check out r/rtlsdr, which is where I first was introduced to the hobby. It's full of helpful people.
in “Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images with $10 USB SDR Device (2014) [video]” · View on HN
A YouTube channel called The Thought Emporium has a series about using a sdr called the HackRF to make a radio telescope and a satellite receiver for a few weather sats. ▶ this video
in “Serial Port SDR” · View on HN
I was just watching ▶ this video and I wonder if some satellites encrypt the content before sending it to earth.
in “The First Image from EUMETSAT’s Newest Satellite” · View on HN