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This post describes how to use OpenWeatherMap UV index. This is an interesting API because we can use it to explore some important aspects about Android and location aware API.

Examples of VANE Language: RGB One of the simplest operations is to generate RGB map. Here an image consists of Bands 4-3-2 which correspond to the well-known RGB color model. Red, green and blue spectra combine together for creation of full color images. http://owm.io/beautiful-vane

#satellite #rgb #vane language #maps #sql

Examples of VANE Language: Fire detection Detect areas that were deforested after fire by simple coding of burn index and apply it to chosen area and data of events. You can easily compare images before and after fire by getting visual result immediately. http://owm.io/beautiful-vane

#fire #willdfire #satellite #maps

The company OpenWeatherMap presents the release of a new service the VANE Language

The company OpenWeatherMap presents the release of a new service the VANE Language (former imagery API) with examples: http://owm.io/vaneLanguage Initially, we called it Imagery API but finally understood that this service is much bigger than just API calls. Language is a proper name for this service. It is like an SQL for satellite images. Something unique on the satellite market.The Language is entirely online service, there is no any manual procedures or presets like maps prepared in advance. One image that we receive from Landsat8 is not an image in common understanding but several layers that have to be processed and merged somehow before you can do anything with it. The weight of each unarchived number of bands is around 2 Gb, and obviously, it takes a lot of resources and time to process it. E.g to make a global map you need around 10,000 images that should be processed and merged. With VANE Language developer does not worry about time-costly pre-processing because we do it online immediately. We give him a powerful tool that is familiar to any developer and hides all complexity. In a short word VANE Language gives a full flexibility for a developer to do with images whatever they want and deploy result into applications. VANE also have a unique feature of configuring the formula of image processing. Means that developer can set up his logic of processing of the image to make specific vegetation indexes, false colors and any other images that he can use for analysis of objects, changes, yield health, etc.

#Imagery API #api #satellites #satelite map #services

Recent years agriculture experiences much heavier losses caused by changing climate and alterations in global middle-season temperature. . Shortage of crop can affect the entire agricultural supply ch

#weather #weather data #weather risks #OpenWeatherMap #agriculture

Recently the approach to marketing has greatly changed. Simple broadcasting of information about goods and services, even in the most whimsical of forms, is getting out-of-date quickly. At the moment those companies are the most successful who experience a flexible approach towards using of information, both current and historical.

Such factor as weather is the most available and universal in consumers’ decision making process regarding goods and services. Weather influences where we go, what we wear, what we eat and the most important how we feel. The theme of weather is so all-around and discussed at many levels, it’s a great way to start a conversation in a company of unfamiliar people.

Weather risk insurance contributes to the steady economic situation while energy saving and control of power consumption provide cost saving and slow down the wasting of energy resources that all in a

Meet the fantastic project Magic Mirror where OpenWeatherMap data used to get forecast and current weather displayed right on a mirror surface

#weather #weather data #OpenWeatherMap #weather risks #elektrical

It is hard to overestimate the impact of the weather on human lives. The weather affects how we feel, what we eat and wear, where we plan…

#weather risks #weather #OpenWeatherMap #weather data

Uncontrolled weather and controlled weather risks

Weather is changing and will continue to constantly, it cannot be stopped and there is nothing to do about it. Weather activities happening in the past few years speak for themselves: tornado in the southeast of the United States at winter time, unusual droughts, and exceptional outbreaks of extremely cold arctic weather in the northern part of the country. Such weather phenomena as prolonged drought in California or heavy rainfalls that struck the southeast of Texas 6 months ago can turn into a real disaster for both the population and the economics of many states. It is worth mentioning that fluctuations in expected weather conditions represent growing risks for financial well-being of enterprises conducting business in various spheres of economics and these weather changes violate revenue flow potentionally. It goes without saying that these companies are interested in decreasing of the risks. There is no way to affect weather, but nowadays there exist technologies (Big data, IoT), methods of data collection and data analysis and other new solutions that allow to diminish weather risks for different business scales, from large companies to individual farmers.

#weather #OpenWeatherMap #weather data #weather risks

Recently the issue of environmental pollution and of its consequence such as global warming has been highly discussed at different levels from mass media to heads of governments. United Nations conference on climate change which took place in Dec, 2015 in Paris, France obliged countries that use hydrocarbon fuels to decrease emission of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, and this fact correlates with world economics looking toward implementation of use of renewable fuels. However this process is unacceptable and almost impossible for many countries at the moment. It goes without saying for such countries as Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and India, and even in the USA this decision of the Paris climate summit found its opponents. The denial of vital questions of climate change and global warming is similar to practice of "burying the heads in the sand." These issues do exist and take their toll on world economy not in the best way.

It is not news nowadays that the climate on earth is changing. And this change is not a long-term prospect, this is a process happening…

Tepuy Roraima, Venezuela

#travel #roraima #venezuela

Satellites record data in different parts of the light spectrum that we can't see. And it's that information that allows satellites to be so powerful in terms of looking at things like vegetation health, finding different kinds of geology that may indicate an oil deposit or some kind of mineralogical deposit that can be mined.

Sarah Parcak

#satellites #data #ndvi #openweathermap

I'm a VC at Russia's government-backed startup community Skolkovo, where I focus on spacetech and drones. So I've been watching the global surge in spacetech investments closely. And what's clear is that we've entered a virtuous cycle in spacetech, where VCs are encouraged enough by a handful of successes to invest further in the sector, and, as a result, we're seeing more startups emerge to produce more successes.

OpenWeatherMap is in the space market observation in Venture Beat!

#space #satellites #startups #skolkovo

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