🌥 OpenSky

Open sky is a repository of open source sky images. You are free to use them for any purpose in your projects. The entire dataset is automated and generated by a script.

There are 32 entries in this dataset.

There are 252 images in this dataset.

Example

Here is a gif containing random images from the dataset.

Prerequisites

• make
• python3
• ffmpeg

Installing prerequisites on debian/ubuntu

sudo apt install make python3 ffmpeg

Installing prerequisites on arch

sudo pacman -S make python ffmpeg

Directory structure

• dataset/ - contains the dataset
• dataset/<NUMBER> - contains an entry in the dataset
• dataset/<NUMBER>/raw - contains the raw images added to the dataset
• dataset/<NUMBER>/processed - contains the processed images added to the dataset
• dataset/<NUMBER>/processed/1000 - contains the processed images at 1000px width and height
• dataset/<NUMBER>/processed/bw - contains the processed images in black and white
• dataset/<NUMBER>/processed/bw_1000 - contains the processed images in black and white at 1000px width and height
• panoramas/ - contains panoramas of the sky

Usage ideas

There a lot of things you can do with this dataset. Here are some ideas:

• Use the images to train a neural network
• Use the images to train a GAN
• Use the images to predict the weather
• Use the images to calculate the cloud cover
• Use the images to figure out cloud types

How to add to the dataset

You can use github codespaces to add to the dataset.

1. Fork the repository
2. Read the contributing guidelines
3. install make and ffmpeg on your system sudo apt install make ffmpeg
4. run make in the root directory of the repository
5. Follow the prompts
6. Open a pull request

Licence

This project is licensed under the unlicense. See the LICENCE file for details.

Images: You are free to use the images in this repository for any purpose in your projects. It would be nice if you could link back to this repository. It is not required though.

Images provided by [OpenSky](https://www.github.com/0x4248/OpenSky)