open-weather Automatic Ground Station 2024–2025
The completed AGS device, ready for deployment.

Medium: Open-source Hardware and Software

Role: Hardware Designer & Lead Developer

Context: Deployed at 10+ locations worldwide

Developed in collaboration with open-weather collective.
API development by Rectangle (Lizzie Malcolm and Dan Powers).
Debugging assistance by Bill Liles (NQ6Z).

Supported by:
Open Science Hardware Foundation (USA)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (USA)
Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)

Deployed locations include Florida, Pune (India), Vienna (Austria), Gilboa (NY), Cornwall (UK), Arbroath (Scotland), with stations in progress in Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Valparaiso (Chile), Seattle, Nicosia (Cyprus), Perth (Australia), and Barcelona (Spain).

The open-weather Automatic Ground Station (AGS) is an open-source Raspberry Pi-based radio receiver that automatically captures satellite imagery from NOAA weather satellites. Developed as a collaboration with the open-weather collective, the AGS democratizes access to real-time satellite weather imagery by providing an affordable, easy-to-build ground station that operates autonomously.

open-weather.community/ags
Assembled ground station components including Raspberry Pi and radio receiver.

Assembled ground station components including Raspberry Pi and radio receiver.

NOAA-18 weather satellite image received over Florida.

NOAA-18 weather satellite image received over Florida.