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Various apps to download Himawari8 satellite's earth imagery

awesome-himawari8

This is a collection of a bunch of implementations of himawari8 live earth desktop in many languages.

The weather satellite Himawari8 posts its view of earth in every ten minutes. Therefore it is often used by the community to build live earth desktop scripts on. It is intersting to see how every implement the script in their favorite language. Also by comparing these scripts, similarities and differences between language can be found.

Among the list not only are there languages normally used for such task like Python and Ruby, but also Java, Haskel, Go, C#, Javascript(CoffesSript) and even Matlab.

Python

boramalper/himawaripy - Set near-realtime picture of Earth as your desktop background http://labs.boramalper.org/himawaripy

liuwons/Himawari8 Image Downloader - Himawari8 Image Downloader

peterldowns/himawari8 -

goldbattle/himawari8-compiler - Compiles images from the Himawari 8 japanese weather satellite

fatdeer/himawari8-downloader - Download All Himawari8 EARTH RGB Color Image

littleningmeng/blueearth - get recently photo of earth from himawari8 and set it as your wallpaper

goldbattle/himawari8-compiler - Compiles images from the Himawari 8 japanese weather satellite

JavaScript

jakiestfu/himawari.js - Download real-time images of Earth from the Himawari-8 satellite http://jakiestfu.github.io/himawari.j…

FrancoisMentec/himawari-8-wallpaper - A beautiful earth view as wallpaper from Himawari 8: https://himawari8.nict.go.jp/

CoffeeScript

jnst/hubot-himawari8 - A Hubot script for getting Himawari 8 satellite image via Japan Meteorological Agency

TypeScript

domoritz/himawari-8-chrome - Experience the latest image from the Himawari 8 satellite https://goo.gl/QQf24S

Ruby

pihao/Himawari8 Desktop for Mac - http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/

C-sharp

patrickds/himawari8 - A little c# application to change your wallpaper every 10 minutes with real time images from Himawari 8 Japan Satellite.

NoStudioDude/himawari8.WPF - Get a wallpaper from himawari satellite onto your desktop

infinity8/Himawari8WallpaperDownloader - An application for downloading the latest Himawari 8 satelite imagery and setting it as your wallpaper

Java

sunzcdev/himawari8-Android - 向日葵8卫星Android版本的桌面壁纸

LsHallo/HimawariDownloader - Java Desktop Downloader with PNG compression

Go

tonyluj/himawari8 - collect image from himawari8

Haskell

spicker/himawari8 - A small program to download images taken by the Himawari-8 satellite

Shell

yatsenko-ihor/himawari8-wallaper - Script which download last photo from Himawari8 and set image as desktop wallaper. Read more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himawari_8

Kotlin

MathiasStokholm/Himawari - Live Wallpaper for Android showcasing live images of the Earth captured by the Himawari Satellite

Matlab

bitpeach/EarthLiveForMatlab - EarthLive is a program of displaying live pictures of earth on our PC desktop in every 10 minutes. The live earth photos are pictured by the satellite named ’Himawari8’. The Python version of EarthLive for Macbooks has been finished by me, which adopts 4 parts of sub-pictures. Now, Matlab version has been complemented here.

Crystal

tzekid/star-gazelle - Have the latest himawari8 shots as your wallpaper! (Wallpapers update every 10 min)

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