my initial thought was that studying satellite lightning was the best thing that i have ever done. well, our time is almost up here on the isle of wight back with me is annette. annette, ijust wanted to ask you a little bit about how you got involved and what drives you to be part of this team here at the national coastwatch institution? i was a nurse on the mainland and a few years ago i decided to volunteer in the hope that it would make me a better sailor, and i learnt so much marine chart work, the radio, getting my vhf licence, and generally working with an eclectic bunch of volunteers. have you got any particularly memorable incidents while you have been on shift here?
it is exciting that we have the technology to observe and appreciate the beauty of it. my initial thought was that studying satellite lightning was the best thing that i have ever done. well, our time is almost up here on the isle of wight back with me is annette. annette, ijust wanted to ask you a little bit about how you got involved and what drives you to be part of this team here at the national coastwatch institution? i was a nurse on the mainland and a few years ago i decided to volunteer in the hope that it would make me a better sailor, and i learnt so much marine chart work, the radio, getting my vhf licence, and generally working with an eclectic bunch of volunteers. have you got any particularly memorable incidents while you have been
the technology to observe and appreciate the beauty of it. my initial thought was that studying satellite lightning was the best thing that i have ever done. well, our time is almost up here on the isle of wight back with me is annette. annette, ijust wanted to ask you a little bit about how you got involved and what drives you to be part of this team here at the national coastwatch institution? i was a nurse on the mainland and a few years ago i decided to volunteer in the hope that it would make me a better sailor, and i learnt so much marine chart work, the radio, getting my vhf licence, and generally working with an eclectic bunch of volunteers. have you got any particularly memorable incidents while you have been on shift here? we had an interesting morning, it was fairly quiet, a bit foggy, and one of our local fishing vessels lost its motor and heard
a camera on your cell phone, but it detects, it covers a large domain, north and south america, and adjacent oceans. and it is also a high speed camera so it takes a snapshot from above the thunderstorm every two milliseconds, which give you 500 frames per second. and it continuously observes, you know, lightning activity, and it operates in a very narrow band of near infrared frequency, so whenever there is lightning in the cloud, the satellite sensor will see where it started and how it propagates in the cloud and where it ends. it is exciting that we have the technology to observe and appreciate the beauty of it. my initial thought was that studying satellite lightning was the best
it is exciting that we have the technology to observe and appreciate the beauty of it. my initial thought was that studying satellite lightning was the best thing that i have ever done. well, our time is almost up here on the isle of wight back with me is annette. annette, ijust wanted to ask you a little bit about how you got involved and what drives you to be part of this team here at the national coastwatch institution? i was a nurse on the mainland and a few years ago i decided to volunteer in the hope that it would make me a better sailor, and i learnt so much marine chart work, the radio, getting my vhf licence, and generally working with an eclectic bunch of volunteers.