satellite.py

In this script we will plot the position of ISS. In order to do this we will use this API.

Import the required modules pandas and plotly

import pandas as pd
import plotly.express as px

We will use the API found here.

url = ‘http://api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json'

Next we need to read our data which are in a json format (some kind of file)

dataFrame = pd.read_json(url)

Print the dataFrame and see our results

print(dataFrame)

Let’s shape a little bit our data the way we want them to be.

dataFrame[‘latitude’] = dataFrame.loc[‘latitude’,’iss_position’]
dataFrame[‘longitude’] = dataFrame.loc[‘longitude’, ‘iss_position’]
dataFrame.reset_index(inplace=True)

print the data again…do you see the diferrence?

Now let’s get rid of some data and fine tune them

dataFrame = dataFrame.drop([‘index’, ‘message’], axis=1)

Let’s plot out data

figure = px.scatter_geo(dataFrame, lat=”latitude”, lon=”longitude”)
figure.show()