Sources of Ocean Satellite Images Data Ricardo Letelier

Sources of Ocean Satellite Images & Data Ricardo Letelier & Jasmine Nahorniak

Sources of Data & Images Used by Workshop Attendees results of the pre-workshop survey NOAA NESDIS http: //www. nesdis. noaa. gov NOAA Coast. Watch http: //www. coastwatch. noaa. gov NOAA CLASS http: //www. class. noaa. gov NASA Ocean. Color http: //oceancolor. gsfc. nasa. gov NASA PO. DAAC http: //podaac. jpl. nasa. gov NASA Giovanni http: //disc. sci. gsfc. nasa. gov/giovanni USGS Glo. Vis http: //glovis. usgs. gov USGS Earth. Explorer http: //earthexplorer. usgs. gov ESA Rolling Archive https: //earth. esa. int/web/guest/data-access/onlinearchives AVISO http: //www. aviso. oceanobs. com/en/ IKONOS/Spatial Solutions Direct broadcast receiving stations in Japan Pacific Fish Trax http: //pacificfishtrax. org

More Sources of Images Company / Agency Cost Region Rip. Charts ripcharts. com $99 / year USA, Australia ROFFS™ roffs. com $65 / analysis $2250 /season Eastern USA, Gulf of Mexico Hilton’s Fishing Charts, LLC realtime-navigator. com $200 / year USA Offshore Satellite Services offshoresatelliteservices. com $200 / 10 analyses $900 / year Northeast USA Terrafin Satellite Imaging terrafin. com $99 / year USA, Mexica, Central America Clear. Point International, LLC clearpointweather. com $79 / 30 days $499 / year global Fish. Track fishtrack. com $14. 95 / month $79. 95 / year USA and several other regions Sea. View (Ocean Imaging) seaviewfishing. com $368 / month $1859 / 6 months global Sea. Star (Geo. Eye) geoeye. com/seastar $500 / month global NANOOS Visualization System nvs. nanoos. org free Pacific Northwest Disclaimer: The purpose of this list is to provide an overview of the current providers of fisheries satellite imagery. This list is likely incomplete and may not be up-to-date. No endorsement is intended.

Rip. Charts (Texas, www. ripcharts. com) .

Terrafin Satellite Imaging (California, www. terrafin. com) .

Hilton’s Fishing Charts, LLC (Texas, www. realtime-navigator. com)

ROFFS™ (Florida, www. roffs. com)

Sea. View (Ocean Imaging, California, www. seaviewfishing. com ) .

Coast. Watch (California, coastwatch. noaa. gov ) .

NANOOS Visualization System (nvs. nanoos. org )

Colorado Center for Astrophysical Research (http: //eddy. colorado. edu/ccar/data_viewer/index )

Satellite Data Generally Used in Images for Fisheries Other Data Used SST NOAA 15 – 18 1. 1 km resolution infrared total of 4 -12 images per day buoy Data - Temperature - Wave data - Wind - Salinity Chlorophyll & True Color MODIS-AQUA, MODIS-TERRA, VIRRS 1 -2 images per day Topography/bathymetry True Color MODIS-AQUA, MODIS-TERRA 1 -2 images per day Altimetry Jason 2, Cryosat 2 meteorological data weather forecasts fishing reports oil rig reports Argo Floats Seaglider data

Questions to Address: - What do you look for in a data source? -What products characteristics are important: - image types - speed - ease interpretation - cost. . ? How can the data sources be improved to help you with your work?

Front Detection and Persistence Analysis Kirchers et al.

River Plume Detection and Sea Surface Salinity proxy From: Palacios et al. (2009)

Spectral signatures as a tracking tool From: Sackmann & Perry (2009)