New Petroleum Flares Seen From Space

SkyTruth has updated its map of Global Flaring. This map shows a heatmap of nightly, infrared satellite detections of natural gas flaring across the Earth.

For toll reasons crude producers oft flare marsh gas in addition to other gases produced past times crude wells rather than recover the gases. This flaring adds huge amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere in addition to the gases themselves tin sack often pollute the air.

The map animates through nightly detections of global flaring. The animation tin sack move controlled using the timeline tool at the bottom of the map. The tool on the correct side of the map tin sack move used to select whether to thought private detections, 1 twenty-four hours at a time, or a composite of all detections over multiple days. If you lot select to a greater extent than than 1 twenty-four hours the map shows all the flares detected on the engagement displayed in addition to from all the preceding days.

The Global Flaring map requires a WebGL enabled browser.

The satellite measurements used inwards the Global Flaring map were made past times the VIIRS sensor aboard NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite. NOAA has also used information captured past times VIIRS to exercise an interactive map of the Earth's vegetation.

The Green Vegetation map visualizes the world's vegetation. The darkest dark-green areas on the map are the locations alongside the lushest vegetation. The map uses a pale color for the Earth's oceans. I'm guessing this is because if 75% of the planet was colored bluish this would detract from the vegetation beingness highlighted on the map.

You tin sack read to a greater extent than close the vegetation information in addition to how the map was created on the NOAA website.