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Nice. Japan needs better weather data; too many hurricanes and too much coastal development. From geostationary orbit, the resolution has to be low, but it's always on.

The US has two geostationary weather satellites, which are usually parked roughly over Panama and Hawaii. Neither has good coverage of Japan. Korea's COMS satellite does, though. China has several, including one that's usually pointed roughly at Taiwan.[1] Right now, you can see the hurricane that's due east of Shanghai.

[1] http://www.hko.gov.hk/wxinfo/intersat/fy2e/satpic_s_vis.shtm...




I didn't realise they were lacking in weather data. Seeing tangentially related projects like their supercomputer Earth Simulator Project [1] led me to (falsely it seems) believe they were likely also sufficient in that area.

Beginners question - does their inclination (prohibitively) affect the efficiency of lower orbit weather sats?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Simulator


Why does geostationary orbit infer low resolution? Or do you mean "from orbit" in general?


Geostationary satellites orbit much further away (~35,786 km) from Earth than non-stationary satellites (~2000 km).




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