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Urban Heat Island Explorer
  • Yes, only European cities covered by Eurostat. I tried to cover this in the about section but it basically boils down to processing time, my own available time and to a lesser extent storage.

    It took me more than a week to process 2013-2023 for the included areas, which is roughly 10TB of raw imagery (with less than 60% cloud cover).

    The Eurostat urban extents, for the most part, delineate urban areas with a detailed vector dataset. This is something that I also couldn’t find on a global scale.

    I’m not decided yet on expanding the extents, which also depends on if people actually find this useful. However, it is open source (AGPL) so it can easily be forked and adapted.

  • Urban Heat Island Explorer
  • Do you mind sharing the OS? This was developed on Firefox (Debian & iOS).

    I don’t know if your WebGL is working correctly but I could try to add a check (and thus a more graceful failure mode).

    Thank you for the report!

  • Urban Heat Island Explorer
  • Sorry, you currently need to click to load another area. You can also navigate with the search bar or randomize by clicking the city icon.

    I do want to load things automatically but need to figure out how to avoid hogging to much resources for contouring on the users device.

    This is the first time sharing this, so a bit of an early release 😅

  • Urban Heat Island Explorer
    urbanheat.app Urban Heat Island Explorer

    Interactive urban heat island effect visualizations for European cities.

    Repo: https://github.com/damienallen/urban-heat

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/14939898

    > I wanted to share a small project I've been working on. The goal was to make the data from NASA's Landsat Thermal Infrared Sensor more accessible to the general public. > > I worked with the raw temperature band data to general annual maximum surface temperature raster images for large urban areas covered by the Eurostat GISCO Urban Audit. In the browser, these images are transformed into easier to interpret isotherm contours with some adjustable settings. > > I don't have a specific target audience in mind. The map could help identify areas of refuge for the warmer months, or overheated neighborhoods to avoid as we march towards a toasty future. > > Feedback is welcome :) > > > !

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    [OC] Urban Heat Island Explorer
    urbanheat.app Urban Heat Island Explorer

    Interactive urban heat island effect visualizations for European cities.

    repo: https://github.com/damienallen/urban-heat

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/14939898

    > I wanted to share a small project I've been working on. The goal was to make the data from NASA's Landsat Thermal Infrared Sensor more accessible to the general public. > > I worked with the raw temperature band data to general annual maximum surface temperature raster images for large urban areas covered by the Eurostat GISCO Urban Audit. In the browser, these images are transformed into easier to interpret isotherm contours with some adjustable settings. > > I don't have a specific target audience in mind. The map could help identify areas of refuge for the warmer months, or overheated neighborhoods to avoid as we march towards a toasty future. > > Feedback is welcome :) > > > !

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    Urban Heat Island Explorer

    I wanted to share a small project I've been working on. The goal was to make the data from NASA's Landsat Thermal Infrared Sensor more accessible to the general public.

    I worked with the raw temperature band data to general annual maximum surface temperature raster images for large urban areas covered by the Eurostat GISCO Urban Audit. In the browser, these images are transformed into easier to interpret isotherm contours with some adjustable settings.

    I don't have a specific target audience in mind. The map could help identify areas of refuge for the warmer months, or overheated neighborhoods to avoid as we march towards a toasty future.

    Feedback is welcome :)

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    EDIT: For UK visitors, sorry to leave you with an empty map...

    I've taken a look at older urban extent data and found the geometry I need to process the UK (from before leaving Eurostat). However, there are still some UI limitations to overcome since it seems that cities are split into many boroughs that could only be viewed one at a time. The reason I went with the Eurostat dataset to begin with was a nice delineation of what a city was (for the purposes of this project).

    Don't have a timeline, but I do want to add the UK and automatic loading of cities as you pan!

    !

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    Setting up Python on Windows
  • I’ve had a particularly difficult time with CUDA/Pytorch in WSL. Also with Windows not reclaiming memory…

    But don’t get me wrong, WSL has helped a lot when I’ve needed to use Windows at work.

  • Setting up Python on Windows
  • In my experience:

    • No lockfile, and using the third party conda-lock is clunky
    • Painfully slow solver, although the libmamba solver came to the rescue
    • Conda-forge can lag behind pypi by weeks, depending on the package
  • Setting up Python on Windows
  • Interesting, but if I have to use Windows then I would consider Conda depending on my dependency situation.

    I don’t particularly like Conda, or Windows, but what I like even less is manually finding wheels for my project. For something like GDAL, I wouldn’t even try on Windows without Conda. I think it’s also easy for a beginner to get up and running with this setup.

    My preferred setup is pyenv on Linux with poetry :)

  • Are there still any versions of Linux sold in a box like in the 90s / 2000s?
  • I remember getting a Ubuntu CD box set many years ago when I ordered free disks in the mail as a teenager. The box was well constructed, prints of high quality and the CD labels were especially sharp.

    Crazy how physical media was king back then.

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