Processed satellite images of the seas around Europe, North Atlantic and Arctic (1981-)
Data set information
| Query EDMED |
| General | |
| Data holding centre | Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom  |
| Time period | June1981 to present for sea surface temperature. September 1997 to present for ocean colour December 1999 to present for combined ocean, atmosphere and land data |
| Ongoing | Yes |
| Geographical area | North Atlantic as far south as Morocco, Arctic, European seas. Global data sets, particularly N.Atlantic. |
| Observations | |
| Parameters | Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in water bodies; Ocean colour and earth-leaving visible waveband spectral radiation; Temperature of the water column |
| Instruments | Radiometers; ocean colour radiometers |
| Description | |
| Summary | Daily satellite images are collected routinely from AVHRR, Sea-WIFS and MODIS and processed (atmospheric correction, geographic registration, radiometric correction and calibration, application of algorithm to derive products such as chlorophyll concentrations). These processed images are already available for AVHRR and SeaWIFS and were available from mid-2002 (for the MODIS data) (Raw images are available from the University of Dundee). The resolution is quite coarse; each pixel represents 1.1 km squared. |
| Originators | Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
| References | NERC (2008) NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service: http://www.npm.ac.uk/rsdas, |
| Data web site | http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html |
| Availability | |
| Organisation | Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
| Availability | Organisation; by negotiation |
| Contact | The Director |
| Address | Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
| Telephone | +44 1752 633100 |
| Facsimile | +44 (0)1752 633101 |
| Administration | |
| Collating centre | British Oceanographic Data Centre |
| Local identifier | 1053045 |
| Global identifier | 1531 |
| Last revised | 2009-12-01 |
