Title :
ESA services for Ocean Color missions
Author :
Melinotte, Jean-Manuel
Author_Institution :
Remote Sening Exploitation Dept., Eur. Space Agency, Frascati, Italy
Abstract :
The European Space Agency (ESA/ESRIN) has collected Ocean Color data between 1978 and 1986 with the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) over European and North West Africa waters. The Ocean Color data collection was restarted in August 1997 with IRS-P3-MOS and in September 1997 with SeaWiFS. The OCTS data have been received from NASDA and are archived in ESRIN, MODIS data reception over Europe and West Africa is under preparation this activity is intended to support the European Ocean Color user community in preparation of the exploitation of MERIS the first ESA ocean colour mission to be launched on board Envisat in 2000
Keywords :
oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; CZCS; Coastal Zone Color Scanner; ESA; ESRIN; European Space Agency; IRS-P3-MOS; MODIS; OCTS; SeaWiFS; colour; measurement technique; multispectral remote sensing; ocean; ocean color; remote sensing; sea surface; spectrophotometry; Africa; Atmosphere; Instruments; Layout; NASA; Navigation; Oceans; Postal services; Satellites; Space vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5207-6
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1999.771513
