Dust from a Volcano The measurements were made by infrared sensors aboard NOAA satellites that take readings at 2.5 million to 3 million points in the ocean.

The NOAA satellites carry seven scientific instruments and two for Search and Rescue.

The AMSU instruments on three NOAA satellites, for instance, can sample the entire globe at better than one degree resolution in less than a day.

The NOAA satellites carry seven scientific instruments, two search and rescue instruments and a data recording system.

The NOAA satellites have a resolution capability of 1.1 km.

The ESSA and NOAA polar orbiting satellites followed suit from the late 1960s onward.

For decades, instruments on various NASA and NOAA satellites have continuously monitored vegetation from space.

Between August 6 and 12 the NOAA satellite registered 11,904 fire points in the Amazon basin, with most of the fires around the fringes of the forest.

An instrument carried aboard NOAA polar-orbiting satellites.

The NOAA satellite has equator crossing times of 0730 and 1930 local solar time.