Kopernik - Huseyin Abali; Omer Ulgen; Sinan Karahuseyin;

Week 1

09/18/2025
Summary: The group met for the first time to get to know each other and understand what the senior project will be like.

Accomplishments:

1. The first meeting has been completed.
2. VNC viewer was set up to establish remote connection to the virtual machines.
3. The Wiki has been set up.

To-Do:

1. Update the current GOES-16 framework so that it will work with GOES-19. Make it so the new system downloads images to channel 2.

Week 2

09/25/2025
Summary: The group met to discuss the overall goals expected of us by Kopernik. The goal was given to update the current GOES-16 framework so that it would work with GOES-19 and download the images into channel 2.

Accomplishments:

1. Group meeting has been completed.
2. Set up connection to GOES-19.
3. Set up a separate config file and image folder for GOES-19.
4. Packets received from GOES-19.
5. Image successfully downloaded from GOES-19.

To-Do:

1. Meet with the Kopernik team to discuss what our next tasks will be.

Week 3

10/16/2025
Summary: Worked on properly setting up and automating the image collection, GIF creation, and obsolete images deletion for the GOES-19 system.

Accomplishments:

1. Able to collect Images from GOES-19
2. Able to convert gathered Images into a GIF
3. Created a script so that it gathers the previous day's images at 00:10 AM and converts them into a gift.
4. Created a delete script that removes images older than a certain number of days to save disk space.

To-Do:

1. Unable to collect fully colored images, need to ask for clarification on what might be going wrong.
2. Change GIF Framerate so that its a bit slower.