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Satellite image of smoke over us.
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Smoke is seen hovering over much of western north america and central canada.
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For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data.
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The visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs on the suomi npp satellite acquired this image top on august 15 2018.
These images show just how far across north america winds have carried the thick plumes of smoke.
San francisco kgo we are getting a new perspective of the wildfires raging around the region and the visible impact to the bay area.
The space agency s terra satellite on monday captured a view posted in a blog on nasa s website that showed a pall of wildfire smoke covering most of california.
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 national oceanic and atmospheric administration shared.
The united states satellite images displayed are infrared ir images.
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Goes 17 is operated by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration noaa.
In the morning of august 20 2020 in california the geostationary operational environmental satellite 17 goes 17 captured a natural color image of the smoke above.
Nasa helps develop and launch the goes series of satellites.
Coverage area depictions are approximate.
One image tweeted by the national weather service weather prediction center shows a massive swath of smoke moving across the united states here is a visible satellite image valid at 2pm pdt.
Smoke from the wildfires of the west coast of the us has reached as far as europe according to satellite monitoring services from the eu.
United states visible satellite the visible satellite imagery is essentially a snapshot of what the satellite sees.
In the image shown below smoke.