The oceans are a diverse soup of organic life and are major regulators of the earth's many systems. Tracking ocean systems is necessary for the regulation of healthy habitats, maintaining clean recreational environments, and monitoring pollutants. Using satellite sensors, we have access to tons of real-time public data of the world's surface, which can be used to do all these things. In this project, a statistical approach to remote sensing called varimax--rotated, principal component analysis (VPCA) was utilized to identify the suspended matter in the water. This will be conducted around the United States and British Virgin Islands on dates before and after the landfall of hurricane Irma. We observe that all the same components were identified between both dates, but that their distributions vary.