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Satellites
Published in Mohammad Razani, Commercial Space Technologies and Applications, 2018
Weather Satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be polar orbiting, covering the entire Earth asynchronously, or geostationary, hovering over the same spot on the equator.6 Meteorological satellites see more than clouds and cloud systems. City lights, fires, effects of pollution, auroras, sand and dust storms, snow cover, ice mapping, boundaries of ocean currents, energy flows, etc. Other types of environmental information are collected using weather satellites. Weather satellite images helped in monitoring the volcanic ash cloud from Mount St. Helens and activity from other volcanoes such as Mount Etna.7 Smoke from fires in the western United States such as Colorado and Utah have also been monitored.
The Environment Today
Published in Anco S. Blazev, Power Generation and the Environment, 2021
Weather satellites are designed and equipped to monitor the weather and climate in different areas of the Earth. These meteorological satellites observe a lot of what’s going on down here. They see city lights, fires, pollution damage, storms, snow and rain, ice formations, and the ocean currents. This, and many other types of environmental information is continuously collected by the satellites and sent to weather and other stations on Earth for analysis.
Intercomparison of Himawari-8 AHI-FSA with MODIS and VIIRS active fire products
Published in International Journal of Digital Earth, 2020
Chathura Wickramasinghe, Luke Wallace, Karin Reinke, Simon Jones
The more recently launched Himawari-8 geostationary weather satellite has also shown potential as a tool for wildfire monitoring over Asia and Australia, in a number of early studies utilising the AHI sensor (Hally et al. 2016, 2018; Wickramasinghe et al. 2016; Xu and Zhong 2017; Xu et al. 2017). Xu et al. (2017) calculated a 8% active fire commission error and 66% of omission error compared to MODIS when the FTA active fire detection algorithm was applied to the new Himawari-8 satellite over Asia. Xu and Zhong (2017) also showed, AHI could be used for wildfire monitoring by adapting the MODIS thermal anomaly detection algorithm.