Description

Since 1999 we have been providing computer enhanced sea surface temperature (SST) and Chlorophyll charts for anglers and divers. We now cover the entire Continental U.S. coastline, Hawaii, Alaska, the Caribbean, the Pacific coast of Central America, Venezuela and Brazil. We most likely have your region covered, if you don't see it, ask! We prepare our enhanced charts using only 1km high resolution data from the NOAA Polar Orbiting satellites. We process that data using state of the art Satellite Imaging software. We select the best shots for each region, then review and manually correct for navigation and atmospheric problems in the data. It's time-consuming, but a must for creating quality charts! We then produce enlarged images of specific local areas, using the best temperature range for that area to help emphasize the temperature breaks. We overlay a lat/lon grid for the region, finally adding local reference points and bottom contours to the chart. The final result is an easy to use, detailed chart that will prove to be an invaluable on the water tool. As with all sea temperature services, we don't get images through the clouds, as a result some regions are updated more frequently than others. There are also times when the NOAA Satellites do not capture a particular region, or a ground station can encounter problems receiving the data. (We do our best to minimize these problems by using multiple redundant data sources.) Sometimes this can result in no data for a few days or longer. Either way, we'll TRY, every day, and will process whatever portion of a region is clear.