high res satellite maps

[janoskiss]

You can find daily or twice daily high resolution satellite images (up to 250m per pixel!) from NASA on this site:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/

I'm still working out how to navigate the site properly, but it seems that the easiest way to jump to the relevant satellite image is clicking on the box corresponding to your location here: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/
This takes you to a 2km / pixel image. You have the option of going for higher res from there. (watch out though! the high res images are huge and can cripple older PCs!)

Great for seeing what the hazy bits are on lower res images you can find elsewhere, i.e., are they uniform or patchy with holes? Well worth putting a link on the IIS weather resources page IMO.

Thanks to Fraser Farrell from the ASSA for the tipoff at VicSouth 2006.

[stephenmcnelley]

Good info at that site, weather and geo conditions for many places but not always accessable, the image below reminds me why i left the Melbourne and the south and come back to Qld some years ago, and the weather up here right now is dreadfull!!:(

[h0ughy]

top stuff, excellent, supurb. I like it

[sheeny]

Cool site thanks Steve!

Al.

[rogerg]

Excellent site! Thanks heaps for the link.

For now, it only confirms my suspicions that if I poked my head out the door I wouldn't see much but cloud.

Roger.

[Photon]

Damm ..... Tasmania doesn't appear in a subset??

[iceman]

Cheers Steve, great site.

Have added it as a link to the weather resources page on my local copy - will update the live site in the next few days.

[ving]

hmm.. looks good!
having a squiz right now :)

[jjjnettie]

Brilliant. Thanks for letting us know about it.

[CoombellKid]

Great site, thanks for sharing.

Boy it does give you a visual idea of how dry it is in the west of NSW. I look
at the Hybred image on Google Maps for my area, I guess it was a couple of
years old. But the whole area looked like a river bed or open cut mine.

regards,CS sunny days

Rob