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Local Lightning Detector, Caracas-Venezuela
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Summary - Day Summary - Report
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The WebServer is located in the north part of Caracas, Venezuela. The coordinates are 10.5 N Latitude / 66.9 W Longitude with elevation of 920 meters.
Images from Polar and Geostationary Weather Satellites
The environmental conditions of our planet are subject to changes for different factors like they are the barometric pressure, humidity, condensation, evaporation, winds and rain among others that produce resulting conditions of time in diverse areas of the globe that interaccionan to each other, giving the little accuracy as a result in the prediction of the time in a certain region that there are times can not be bigger to several hours or days.
To achieve a bigger precision of these conditions of the time we have several tools with
which we can know more wisely like they are and like they will be the conditions of the
time in a certain place, these tools are among other the obtained images of the
meteorological satellites, the verification radars in surface and the own local stations
of mensuration of the parameters characteristic of the weather (barometric pressure,
humidity, winds, temperature and their derived) it is here where we have the images of the
satellite.
The images of meteorological satellites are identified according to the own satellite that
transmits them, the Geostationary Satellites these are classified according to the
series that belong the North American series GOES, the European series METEOSAT among
others, they have a fixed orbit on the Earth 36.000 Km high and are disseminated according
to the covering area like for example that of the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean,
images can be obtained in WEFAX format in the Visual and Infrared type the transmissions
are received the 24 hours of the day in their covering area. The Polar satellites are
those that cover a pole orbit to pole of the Earth and are also classified by series, the
North American series NOAA, the Russian series METEOR among others, they have a height of
850KM their transmission it is in APT format and it can be received in an interval from 10
to 20 minutes with a silence window that varies from 1 hour to several days according to
the orbit number.
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Examples of images received locally
