Very happy to see GK-2A* data posted for free as open data – I’ve been wanting to get my mitts on this for ages. I burnt out on the green band stuff I was working on but perhaps it’s time to restart.

registry.opendata.aws/noaa-gk2

* The South Korean member of the GOES-R and Himawari-8/9 family of geostationary weather satellites.

Next time I write a CV it’s going to have a line like “I relish learning new datasets and working to make sense of them” but it’s going to be a lie because here we see longitude stored in radians:

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@vruba maybe radians for longitude and degrees for latitude is what a curious mind like yours needs.

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@sgillies Oh, they can be stored as complex numbers! Wait, I know, what if everything’s quaternions?

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