https://github.com/danwild/aurora-australis-forecaster
A cross-platform application for aggregating and visualising real-time Aurora Australis forecast data.
https://github.com/danwild/aurora-australis-forecaster
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A cross-platform application for aggregating and visualising real-time Aurora Australis forecast data.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/danwild/aurora-australis-forecaster
- Owner: danwild
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2015-12-23T03:53:36.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2016-03-10T01:13:33.000Z (about 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-07T21:33:39.106Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: aurora, aurora-australis, meteor, nasa, noaa
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: http://aurora.nawth.io/
- Size: 640 KB
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# aurora-australis-forecaster
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Note: this project is a work in progress.
A development/proof of concept version is viewable here: http://aurora.nawth.io/ however
it may stop working at anytime, or display wildly inaccurate data without any notice. Use with caution until advised otherwise.
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A cross-platform application for aggregating and visualising real-time Aurora Australis forecast data.
Predicting the weather on Earth is still not an exact science, and this becomes more evident when we try to
go beyond our own atmosphere - a limitation all "Aurora Chasers" must begrudgingly accept.
With this in mind; this project sets out with the intent to provide tools to identify when
there is a substantially elevated probability of seeing an Aurora.
As any predictive model is _only as good as the underlying data_, we will focus on
identifying and communicating the things we know with a reasonable degree of confidence.
## Current features
####Charts/Data
- Real-time solar wind data feeds from ACE/DSCOVR satelites
- Collection of live, and forecast charts from NOAA, BOM etc. (TAS magnetometers, 6hr PLASMAG etc.)
- Generate animations of Ovation and CME forecasts etc *(prrof of concept only, planned refactor)
- UTC and local time display *(local time fixed to TAS, we should set by location)
####Maps
- Basemaps (topo, street, satellite)
- Light pollution map (2015)
- Dynamic South Pole (data till 2020)
- Live ISS tracker
- Interactive viewing locations map
####Weather
- Widget to show weather based on location
- Widget to show moon phase info based on location
- Animated satellite imagery map from BOM (national cloud cover)
- Cressy Cam Video feed
####Raw data
- Todo
####Raw data
- Todo
####Raw data
- Todo
## Community suggested features
- **Contextual data based on locations** "as a user I want to see magnetometer/weather etc from my area, or allow me
to look at data for other locations"
- **User configurable dashboard** "as a user I want to be able to modify the dashboard so I only see the data
that I'm most interested in"
- **Night Vision mode** "as a user I'd like to be able to enable a NV mode, to change the interface colours to reduce
negative impacts on my night vision in the field"
## Planned features
- Time series plot of real-time solar wind data from L1 (ACE/DSCOVR).
- A scoring model to emulate human interpretation of solar wind data (if a few solar wind variables line up,
outlook is good etc.), should use some interpolation to smooth null values and brief fluctuations that
may trigger give false positives.
- Location search box (support lat/lon search)
- TIPS: Write copy/provide resources/links
- FAQ: Write copy/provide resources/links
- An intelligent alert system that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg
- Leverage best available data.
- App to be delivered via the web, iOS and Android.
- Responsive layout for mobile (this should already be working, need to investigate why not..)
- App free for anybody to use, and code is open source for the Aurora Chaser community.
## Technical To-do's
- Switch to AngularJS for ViewModel, going to need more grunt to manage a dynamic dashboard.
- Develop a method to dynamically build dashboard/interface from JSON config.
- Add UI controls to update the config/model.
- Persist and retrieve user specific interface config using HTML5 Local Storage.
- Switch back to DSCOVR services once they stabilise.
- ISS - we should poll service from server-side and push out to client.
- gifshot, scale interval to img count..? Also need pause. This whole thing needs rethinking (also: we should fetch first pic of each animation).
- move REST service polling to server - run code on server, see if we can live update gauges etc.
- alerts..
- pull charts from config
## Deployment notes
Currently deployed to AWS EC2 instance using Meteor Up.
Some basic starter notes here: http://sergelobatch.com/slog/2015/4/10/using-mup/
With AWS and `mup.json` configured:
```bash
$ mup setup
$ mup deploy
```
If you get deployment errors, check the logs `$ mup logs -f`
## Dependencies
Meteor Packages:
- twbs:bootstrap
- iron:router
- http
Cordova Packages:
- [email protected]
- cordova:[email protected]
Other goodies:
- Google Fonts
- FontAwesome Icons
- D3JS
## Interested/want to help?
I'm new to whole aurora scene and am simply building this as a way to learn more; I'd greatly appreciate:
- Feature requests - or suggestions of things you think would be useful.
- Data - specifically any live or regularly updated data feeds that would be relevant.
- Help - if you're a developer and are keen to get involved drop me a line or shoot me a pull request.
## Notes/useful stuff for Meteor development
- https://atmospherejs.com/ meteor pkgs
- http://bootsnipp.com/ UI snippets for bootstrap
- http://www.favicon-generator.org/ app icon generator for web, ios and android