I think what you are doing makes sense for most purposes and I look forward to seeing the final layers.
I'm especially interested in snow cover because of a side project of mine (hillmap.com) that is targeted at backcountry travelers (ski tourers, hikers etc...especially winter travelers since it does things like avalanche terrain analysis in a canvas overlay).
Blue marble is cool and there are some overlays from NOAA etc but winter satellite photos good enough to answer questions like "is this typically an open snow field or heinous bushwhack" or "does this lake freeze over" would be really useful for planing trips in winter or colder climates.
If you guys (or someone) hosted the daily datasets it would be possible to do the processing client side in a canvas for a user defined time periods which would be an awesome tool.
Hmm. I don’t know of any specific product that does what you need (high resolution and near-realtime is usually an expensive combination), but I would definitely look through the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s projects: http://nsidc.org
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I think what you are doing makes sense for most purposes and I look forward to seeing the final layers.
I'm especially interested in snow cover because of a side project of mine (hillmap.com) that is targeted at backcountry travelers (ski tourers, hikers etc...especially winter travelers since it does things like avalanche terrain analysis in a canvas overlay).
Blue marble is cool and there are some overlays from NOAA etc but winter satellite photos good enough to answer questions like "is this typically an open snow field or heinous bushwhack" or "does this lake freeze over" would be really useful for planing trips in winter or colder climates.
If you guys (or someone) hosted the daily datasets it would be possible to do the processing client side in a canvas for a user defined time periods which would be an awesome tool.
Hmm. I don’t know of any specific product that does what you need (high resolution and near-realtime is usually an expensive combination), but I would definitely look through the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s projects: http://nsidc.org
Hillmap.com is a very cool project. Thanks for sharing.