On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 06:10:58 +0100, Phil Layton wrote in


"Jack Harrison" wrote in message
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MODIS images are superb, but can anyone offer some tips how to find the
right image quickly from such an enormous chaotic data base? Yes I know
about MODIS and AQUA tracks, etc, but even with broadband, it takes quite
a bit of searching.

I don't think there is a quick way. That morning pass by TERRA is around
the same time each day and the same with the lunchtime AQUA pass. On the
Terra images I look for NW Africa in the thumbnails and then move two up
from that one.

I was also going to ask, how often, i.e is it every other day ?, can you get
the UK image like Mike has today. When Ive gone to the site in the past, to
look at the UK, it appears squashed up at an angle in one of the images and
not worth expanding.

It is quite rare for the British Isles to be in the middle of the pass as
it was in this one. Usually we are chopped in half, or at the edge of the
image with all the associated distortions. It just so happened the pass
was perfect yesterday as well as at a time of clear skies.

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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 08/09/2004 06:39:00 UTC