The CoastColour dataset

Author

Brockmann, Carsten ; Doerffer, Roland ; Sathyendranath, Shubha ; Ruddick, Kevin ; Brotas, Vanda ; Santer, Richard ; Pinnock, Simon

Author_Institution

Brockmann Consult, Geesthacht, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

2036

Lastpage

2039

Abstract

The objective of the ESA DUE CoastColour project is to fully exploit the potential of the MERIS instrument for remote sensing of the coastal zone. The product requirements have been derived from a user consultation process. Users have provided in-situ data from many locations, which were used for algorithm development and validation. The MERIS data archive from 2005 onwards has been processed with the finally selected algorithms for 27 globally distributed coastal sites. The CoastColour dataset comprises an improved Level 1b product (L1P), a product that contains directional and normalised water leaving reflectances (L2R) and a product for water properties (L2W). The total data volume is 100TB. All data are online and available from the CoastColour Website. A near real time service was operated from October 2011 until end of the ENVISAT mission. Plans exist to continue the service with Sentinel data.

Keywords

Internet; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; CoastColour Website; CoastColour dataset; ENVISAT mission; ESA DUE CoastColour project; MERIS data; MERIS instrument; coastal zone; globally distributed coastal sites; normalised water leaving reflectances; ocean colour; remote sensing; water properties; Adaptive optics; Algorithm design and analysis; Atmospheric modeling; Reflectivity; Sea measurements; Uncertainty; Water; MERIS; chlorophyll concentration; coastal zone; ocean colour; total suspended matter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350976

Filename

6350976