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Here is my current Python script for Himawari-8. If you followed the Himawari-8 Data Download tutorial and saved the files as suggested you need only change the path variable in the script. For example, if your path looks like this: D:/himawari-8-data/2020/0415/0500/ The path variable will be this: path = 'D:/himawari-8-data/' Do not include the YYYY/MMDD/hhmm/ part of your path; the script assumes you used this directory structure and will handle it automatically. Also don't forget the quotes and forward slash at the end!

In preparation for working with free, publicly available Himawari and GOES satellite data first you will need to install Python on your system. Python is a high-level programming language, but let me stress that you will not need to do any coding yourself; the necessary scripts will be provided in subsequent blog posts. This tutorial is for Windows 10 but Python is available for other operating systems. The installation procedure is relatively straightforward even when installing in a sandbox environment. We will be using a free minimal version of Anaconda—a Python data science platform—called Miniconda, along with a few necessary packages needed to read and work with the satellite data. DOWNLOAD MINICONDA Download Miniconda3 Windows 64-bit (Python 3.7 version) here: https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html INSTALL MINICONDA Run the installer you just downloaded. You can choose to install Miniconda for all users or just the current user. I chose Just Me from the menu...