Real Time Smoke Satellite Images

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Real time smoke satellite images.

This satellite image provided by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration at 20 36 utc 1 36 pm pdt shows smoke from wildfires blown westward from california s sierra nevada to the. For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data. Hms fire and smoke data products are marked with the time stamp representing the corresponding satellite image acquisition observation time in universal time coordinated utc and date using the julian day calendar 0 365 day of year for regular years 0 366 for leap years. Imagery available about 25 minutes later.

Each station therefore receives the images of the areas around it. If you would like to view close to real time satellite imagery of the fires you can use nasa s earth observing system data and information system eosdis worldview interactive application which. Eastern central mountain and pacific. Real time satellite fire monitoring goes west.

Download imagery via the maps below. Zoom earth shows live weather satellite images updated in near real time and the best high resolution aerial views of the earth in a fast zoomable map. The satellite takes images of the earth below and streams it down to the station in real time. Explore the world in real time launch web map in new window noaa satellite maps latest 3d scene this high resolution imagery is provided by geostationary weather satellites permanently stationed more than 22 000 miles above the earth.

The fire and smoke map shows fine particulate 2 5 micron pm 2 5 pollution data obtained from air quality monitors and sensors information is shown on both the epa s air quality index scale using the nowcast aqi algorithm and also as hourly pm 2 5 concentration values. This website is supported on a monday friday basis so outages may occur without notice and may not be immediately resolved. The station s antenna points toward the satellite and tracks it for as long as it can until it moves out of range. In order to obtain u s.

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