About this imagery was acquired by the noaa remote sensing division to support noaa homeland security and emergency response requirements.
Irma satellite loop noaa.
Click on goes east band reference guide to find out the primary usage of each of the goes east bands.
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Staff from noaa s office of marine and aviation operations and noaa s n ational geodetic survey capture these images using specialized remote sensing cameras aboard noaa aircraft primarily noaa s king air and twin otter aircraft flying above the area at an altitude between 1 500 and 5 000 feet.
In addition it will be used for ongoing research efforts for testing and developing standards for airborne digital imagery.
Geocolor is a multispectral product composed of true color using a simulated green component during the daytime and an infrared product that uses bands 7 and 13 at night.
Hurricane irma aerial imagery response.
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According to noaa s national hurricane center irma is a category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds near 130 miles per hour.
Launch web map in new window this tracker shows the current view from our goes east and goes west satellites.
At night the blue colors represent liquid water clouds such as fog and stratus while gray to.
Irma weakened to a tropical storm by 1200 utc 11 september when it was centered about 20 n mi west of gainesville florida.
A hurricane track will only appear if there is an active storm in the atlantic or eastern pacific regions.
Click on the links to view the images or loop for each available band and view static images will enlarge while loops will be shown on another tab.
14 times a day jpss satellites circle the earth from pole to pole and cross the equator 14 times daily allowing for full global coverage twice a day.
Dscovr noaa s first operational satellite in deep space orbits a million miles from earth in order to provide early warnings of potentially harmful space weather.
During the day the imagery looks approximately as it would appear when viewed with human eyes from space.
Once the aviators shoot the imagery it is.
The tracker also allows users to go back in time and view and interact with the satellite imagery from the past hurricanes this year.