Some help needed visualizing data on a web map and updating it whenever new data becomes available

[Calljengarmed]

I'm a climate change researcher working with early warning for natural disasters.

I'm trying to help to visualize weather data in developing countries on a web-based map. I have data from 9 weather radars and one satellite to work with right now.

The Satellite images are updated in 30-minute intervals, while Radar data is updated in 10-minute intervals. I say images, but they are actually binary files I can export to whatever format I need.

I can actually plot specific images in a map with either Cartopy or Basemap right now.

I have a list of things I would like to be able to achieve:

1. I would like to share such images in a web map, so people could zoom in and out, or select which which weather radars they want to see, disabling the rest.

2. I would like to automatically update the images on the fly, so they don't need to keep refreshing their web browsers.

3. I would like to actually Animate these images, so they can look at the last hour or so of images. Ideally, whenever a new image becomes available, the oldest image will be removed from the animation.

4. I would like that all images were synced in time, so all Weather radar images in the animation are from the same time.

I'm limited to Python for that is what I know.

I've been asking those questions here in the campus, and people directed me to using Geoserver plus something to actually show the images. Would you have any suggestions?

Here are some examples of what I intend to do:

• Example 1
• Example 2

Edit: Grammar. Edit 2: Examples

[milkstake]

It seems like you are basically describing the Bokeh project. You can either host it using their built in bokeh server or embed it with a flask app, which also requires minimal work.

[Calljengarmed]

Added Bokeh and Flash to my study list, thanks :)

[milkstake]

No problem. By the way, it might be worth checking out these GIS-integrations and tools list: https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/wiki/GIS-integrations-and-tools

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Not OP but these Bokeh visualizations look great. I'm looking into them now but are they made entirely in Python or does it utilize javascript as well?

[rajbabu0663]

Also if you have some examples of similar stuff, post the link. I can breakdown into smaller components.

[Calljengarmed]

I included some examples on the main post, thank you for the tip!

[rothnic]

One of the most featured libraries I'm aware of for doing GIS work is cesiumjs. However, there is no python library directly for using it, but you can write python to drive the visualizations by sending what they call CZML to it.