Real-time data for monitoring orca habitat
From Orcapedia
These data sources are often useful for contextualizing sounds that are heard via the Salish Sea hydrophone network. Some are becoming embedded within a Google map of real-time sensors.
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[edit] Web cams
List from north to south, mainly:
- Cams around SE Vancouver Island (from Big Wave Dave)
- Bellingham Bay (boat storage facility)
- Cams around the San Juan Islands (sponsored by Kenmore Air)
- Roche Harbor
- Smuggler's Cove Cam (NW San Juan Island, not live?)
- OrcaCam (pan/tilt/zoom) at the Center for Whale Research
- Upper Hannah Heights (W San Juan Island)
- Friday Harbor: tower | ferry | ferry slip | Labs
- Race Rocks
- Port Townsend panning tower cam (radio tower on Lawrence Street)
- Port Townsend Marina (from Courthouse)
- Dungeness Lighthouse
- Port Angeles harbor
- Mouth of Elwha River (from La Place sur le Mer)
- First Beach, La Push
Other webcam lists and maps:
- Water Cams (from Hal at seattlesail.info)
[edit] Weather and wave measurements
- Neah Bay buoy
- Race Rocks station
- Hein Bank buoy | 5-day series of wind + pressure
- Windfinder for B.C. (wind data and forecasts)
- Windfinder for WA (wind data and forecasts)
- Smith Island wind, temp, pressure
- WA State ferry wind and temperature
- San Juan wind and temp surface map
- Radial radar velocity
- Radar 1-hr precipitation
- Boater information system (Map-based interpolated wind, tides, currents, and temperature)
- Wind on the Water (Map-based and text-messaged wind data for wind sports]
[edit] Weather forecasts
- Regional marine forecast (U.S.)
- Regional 10-m modeled wind loop
- Haro Strait forecast (Canadian)
[edit] Satellite imagery (latest)
- Latest satellite with surface obs
- Infrared 4km (close) | 8km
- Water vapor enhanced
[edit] Tidal currents
- Salish Sea model (POM by IOS, Canada)
- Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Haro Strait
- Race Rocks current table
[edit] Tidal height
- Pedder Bay (Victoria, BC)
[edit] Vessel locations
- marinetraffic.com Live AIS data for the Salish Sea (and beyond; based in Greece!)
- siitech.com Live AIS data in the Pacific Northwest (includes handy ship "lookup" list)
- Port Townsend - Keystone ferry location map
- Seattle - Bainbridge ferry location map
- SailWX.net ship locations in PacNW
- Seattle area ship locations via AIS
- Shine Micro live AIS for the Salish Sea (requires registration; seems less informative and more lagged than marinetraffic.com)
