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SatCamAurora enables ground truth observations of the Northern Lights at the same time and location that an Earth observing satellite is passing overhead detecting the Aurora Borealis from above.

SatCamAurora observations submitted to our server will help us compare features on photographs submitted by citizen scientists with features revealed via the VIIRS Day/Night Band in satellite images, with location and timing coordinated by the App. In exchange for your picture, we will send you the satellite image from the same location, anywhere in the world! SatCamAurora supports the Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 satellites.

SatCamAurora, was developed at the Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

By submitting to SatCamAurora, you agree to grant SSEC a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable license to: use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution. (HT Aurorasaurus)
If you are not willing to share your data openly and freely, please do not submit observations to SatCamAurora.