Open-weather is a feminist experiment in imaging and imagining the earth and its weather systems using DIY tools. We weave storytelling with low cost hardware and open-source software to transform our relations to a planet in climate crisis.
Co-led by Soph Dyer and Sasha Engelmann since 2020, open-weather makes artworks, leads inclusive workshops and develops resources on satellite imagery reception and reading. Through these activities, a network has formed around the project, currently numbering more than one hundred DIY Satellite Ground Station operators around the world, from Buenos Aires to Berlin.
In the tradition of intersectional feminism, open-weather investigates the politics of location and interlocking oppressions that shape our capacities to observe, negotiate, and respond to the climate crisis. In doing so, open-weather challenges dominant representations of earth and environment while complicating ideas of the weather beyond the meteorological.
Generic satellite data processing software. Plug it into an SDR pipeline and it'll try to decode satellite images. Process and interpret in realtime or from recorded traffic. Can use either a local SDR or one shared across a network with rtl_tcp.
In the AUR. There's even a version for Android (in the F-Droid repo).
If the asciidoctor gives you any trouble (specifically, if it keeps saying it can't find itself), it means that it's been installed into the gem directory for a version of Ruby that you're not running (at least for Arch - it was in 3.2.0 but I had 3.0.0 installed).
Query next passes for a given satellite above you. Uses Skyfield to predict passes, and Celestrak GP API to get updated TLE data.
On this site, you will find in-depth content about Earth observation satellites and other related topics.
A free service for querying which satellites will be passing over a known location on the globe.
TinyGS is an open network of Ground Stations distributed around the world to receive and operate LoRa satellites, weather probes and other flying objects, using cheap and versatile modules. This project is based on ESP32 boards and currently it is compatible with sx126x and sx127x LoRa modules but we plan to support more radio módules in the future.
A global network of satellite ground stations, designed as an open source participatory project. A machine readable crowdsourced satellite information database. Built from readily available and affordable tools and resources. Concentrates on satellites in LEO. A significant amount of work is involved so you won't be able to just throw up an RTL-SDR and get going. Designed to be built using readily available materials and access to basic tools and machinery using 3D printers and CNC as provided by average hackerspaces.