# Nighttime fun with ruby :wq

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nighttime-fun-with-ruby-wq/78743>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 8, 2006, 7:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nighttime-fun-with-ruby-wq/78743 "2006-12-08T07:05:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 7:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nighttime-fun-with-ruby-wq/78743/1 "2006-12-08T07:05:56Z")

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i can’t put much of what we work on online, but we just put this up for  
a  
conference so i thought i’d share

[NOAA/NGDC - Earth Observation Group - Defense Meteorological Satellite Progam, Boulder - NRT UT Night Mosaics](http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/nrt/html/mosaic/ut_night/loop/)

ruby is driving about 50% of the code that makes these images. each set  
(vis,  
tir) of data is approximately 10gb of input data - though these are  
obviously  
thumbnails - and burns up something like 1hr of compute time.

if anyone is interested we are working to make this data publically  
availible  
via a mapserver wms/wcs interface sometime in the next few months.  
mapserver  
is a http interface so i may whip up a ruby api so you can, for  
instance, pull  
a cloud image over new-york state down easily.

regards.

-a

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 8:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nighttime-fun-with-ruby-wq/78743/2 "2006-12-08T08:11:59Z")

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On Dec 7, 2006, at 22:04 , removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> thumbnails - and burns up something like 1hr of compute time.  
> That’s one hell of a gif, 13.2M

> if anyone is interested we are working to make this data publically  
> availible  
> via a mapserver wms/wcs interface sometime in the next few months.  
> mapserver  
> is a http interface so i may whip up a ruby api so you can, for  
> instance, pull  
> a cloud image over new-york state down easily.

This would be awesome.

–  
Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://blog.segment7.net](http://blog.segment7.net)

I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!