For example the system uses satellite detections to locate fires.
Satellite image of smoke over bc.
Shows how the dense smoke from the wildfires spawned in the west has fanned out and drifted into the eastern skies of the.
The smoke is lifted by the jetstream spreading across british columbia alberta saskatchewan and manitoba.
The ineractive map makes it easy to navitgate around the globe.
A nasa satellite captured the smoke as it blanketed the skies over alberta and saskatchewan earlier this week.
If there is cloud cover or smoke that obscures the.
The satellite imagery of the u s.
In order to obtain u s.
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Use this web map to zoom in on real time weather patterns developing around the world.
Ground receiving stations around the world downlink image data from the satellite when it passes over the station.
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.
Eastern central mountain and pacific.
The station s antenna points toward the satellite and tracks it for as long as it can until it moves out of range.
The satellite takes images of the earth below and streams it down to the station in real time.
The fires raging in british columbia aren t just confined to the province.
The natural color image if from the aqua satellite s moderate resolution imaging.
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.