Sources of Ocean Satellite Images & DataRicardo Letelier & Jasmine Nahorniak

Sources of Data & Images Used by Workshop Attendeesresults of the pre-workshop survey

NOAA NESDIS http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov

NOAA CoastWatch http://www.coastwatch.noaa.gov

NOAA CLASS http://www.class.noaa.gov

NASA OceanColor http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov

NASA PO.DAAC http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov

NASA Giovanni http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni

USGS GloVis http://glovis.usgs.gov

USGS EarthExplorer http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov

ESA Rolling Archive https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/data-access/online-archives

AVISO http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/en/

IKONOS/Spatial Solutions

Direct broadcast receiving stations in Japan

Pacific Fish Trax http://pacificfishtrax.org

Company / Agency Cost RegionRipCharts 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

ClearPoint International, LLC clearpointweather.com

$79 / 30 days$499 / year

global

FishTrack fishtrack.com

$14.95 / month$79.95 / year

USA and several other regions

SeaView (Ocean Imaging) seaviewfishing.com

$368 / month$1859 / 6 months

global

SeaStar (GeoEye) 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.

More Sources of Images

RipCharts (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)

SeaView (Ocean Imaging, California, www.seaviewfishing.com ).

CoastWatch (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

SSTNOAA 15 – 181.1 km resolutioninfraredtotal of 4-12 images per day

Chlorophyll & True Color MODIS-AQUA, MODIS-TERRA, VIRRS1-2 images per day

True ColorMODIS-AQUA, MODIS-TERRA1-2 images per day

AltimetryJason2, Cryosat2

Other Data Used

buoy Data - Temperature - Wave data - Wind - Salinity

Topography/bathymetry

meteorological dataweather forecasts

fishing reportsoil rig reports

Argo FloatsSeaglider 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)