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.
Real time smoke satellite images.
In order to obtain u s.
The satellite takes images of the earth below and streams it down to the station in real time.
Neither the website nor the data displayed herein are considered.
Previously known as flash earth.
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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.
Real time satellite fire monitoring goes west.
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.
Use this web map to zoom in on real time weather patterns developing around the world.
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.
Imagery available about 25 minutes later.
Goes west imagery 30 minutes.
Eastern central mountain and pacific.
For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data.
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.
Each station therefore receives the images of the areas around it.
While derived from operational satellites the data products and imagery available on this website are intended for informational purposes only.