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Real time smoke satellite images.
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.
The satellite takes images of the earth below and streams it down to the station in real time.
Each station therefore receives the images of the areas around it.
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.
Imagery available about 25 minutes later.
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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.
While derived from operational satellites the data products and imagery available on this website are intended for informational purposes only.
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Real time satellite fire monitoring goes west.
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The station s antenna points toward the satellite and tracks it for as long as it can until it moves out of range.
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.
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Previously known as flash earth.
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.