internet scouting

chipc · Sep 5, 2012

If you live 1,000 miles from where you hunt and use google earth like a fiend to "scout" (like me) then you'll want to go on weather.com, go to the radar view of your hunt area, click on sattelite, and zoom in and move around to your hearts content. As much as I like google earth this is MUCH clearer. Have fun ! Chip

legacy · Sep 5, 2012

Nice!

BuckRage · Sep 5, 2012

great post thanks!

SoleSearcher36 · Sep 5, 2012

Thanks for the headsup for those that didn't know. They overlay over bing maps so if you want you can just go to www.bing.com/maps and get a few more features.

HayZeus · Sep 5, 2012

Great info. Didnt know about that link, im definatly gonna check it out.

rugarm77 · Sep 5, 2012

Great info and link! Thanks

derquhart · Sep 6, 2012

Nice! I have been using google maps/earth but bing has much more detail as far as naming roads.

SLIVER · Sep 6, 2012

Does anybody know if the satellite imagery on the weather channel is real time? It says that the data is current as of about every 5 minutes. If it is current imagery, it shows a fire by the parking lot of the Bookcliffs Roadless. This is bad for me as I have an elk tag for the area.

Let me know

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mmwb · Sep 6, 2012

The satellite image is not real time. It showed a couple of trucks in my pasture (this morning) that have been gone a couple of years. I expect only the military and companies with ownership if imagery satellites get real time.

heartshot · Sep 6, 2012

The date of capture changes at different zoom levels. In Bing I like having both view options, "bird's eye view" and "aerial"

Thank you for sharing the info!!!!!!

SLIVER · Sep 6, 2012

Thanks guys, when it said that it was updated on the weather channel every 5 minutes, I almost had a heart attack thinking that my hunting unit was on fire.

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SoleSearcher36 · Sep 6, 2012

>Does anybody know if the satellite
>imagery on the weather channel
>is real time? It says
>that the data is current
>as of about every 5
>minutes. If it is current
>imagery, it shows a fire
>by the parking lot of
>the Bookcliffs Roadless. This is
>bad for me as I
>have an elk tag for
>the area.
>
>Let me know
>
>}}-SLIVER-->

I believe it is the weather data they are speaking to.....not the images. Just not possible to update images anywhere near that fast as it takes longer than that for the satellite to make full orbit around the earth.

Muleyfanatic · Sep 8, 2012

I think this might be the same as the weather.com one. http://www.flashearth.com/

cjboz · Sep 9, 2012

where they show roads dont take them for granted. I looked over an area I was in a few weeks ago and it showed the road, however it took us 3 hours to go 2 miles in a Razor. So be careful on road selection!

WTF · Sep 10, 2012

>I believe it is the weather
>data they are speaking to.....not
>the images. Just not
>possible to update images anywhere
>near that fast as it
>takes longer than that for
>the satellite to make full
>orbit around the earth.

Look up Geo-synchronous for satelite orbit.