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Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

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tombrossmantoday at 2:20 PM

Do any European space agencies make live weather imagery available at high resolution? I'm looking for a direct link to JPEGs that update regularly, to use with a cron script to use as desktop wallpaper.

I can easily do this for North America using imagery here, for example: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/conus.php?sat=G16 (bonus, imagery is Public Domain).

This direct link provides an updated image every five minutes, with even higher resolution available if you like: https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2...

Every time I revisit this idea and look for western Europe, I find nothing. Or, very low resolution, or some clunky, proprietary "viewer" forced on users. Is there really nothing similar for Europe?

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maelitotoday at 11:22 AM

In case someone wants NASA firms wildfire 7 day vector tiles : http://serveur.cartes.app/pmtiles/MODIS_C6_1_Global_7d.pmtil...

Retr0idtoday at 11:14 AM

> Now Copernicus Browser has also added a straightforward “wildfires” visualization layer for Sentinel-2 imagery that went live on August 4.

I feel like an idiot, I can't figure out how to enable it. Currently I use https://www.firemap.live/ for tracking local wildfires (which isn't something I ever needed to track, prior to this year)

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