IOCCG ocean-colour sensors and data archives

These series are stored with the platform’s other data: they open in the source atlas, can be compared, and can be analysed in the AI lab.

The series cover only sensors with a date published on the IOCCG page. No sensor without a published end date is assumed to be still operating, so no “active sensor” series is derived. The country breakdown is limited to records whose agency is printed with a country; multinational agencies such as ESA appear in the global series only.

Faded rows are records without a published flight date on the IOCCG page and therefore excluded from the annual series. The values are transcribed from the source tables.

Aircraft remote-sensing data

• Chesapeake Bay Remote Sensing Program (CBRSP) Chesapeake Bay Remote Sensing Program (CBRSP)

  Chesapeake Bay Remote Sensing Program (CBRSP): A study of phytoplankton blooms in the Chesapeake Bay using aircraft remote sensing since 1989, and includes data from both the ODAS and SAS sensors.

Satellite data archives and portals

• Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans

  Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans – Semi-monthly composites of the Atlantic Zone (SeaWiFS, MODIS)

• Giovanni NASA GES DISC DAAC

  Giovanni – Web-based interface for visualization and analysis of Earth Science data provided by NASA’s GES DISC DAAC.

• GlobColour GlobColour (hermes.acri.fr)

  GlobColour – Merged L3 ocean colour products from SeaWiFS, MERIS, MODIS, VIIRS NPP, OLCI-A, VIIRS JPSS-1 and OLCI-B (2005 – present).

• NASA Ocean Color Data Archive NASA (oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov)

  NASA Ocean Color Data Archive – CZCS, SeaWiFS, OCTS, MERIS, MODIS-Aqua, MODIS-Terra, VIIRS, HICO

• Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (CCI) ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative

  Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (CCI) – This project focuses on the ocean colour ECV encompassing water-leaving radiance in the visible domain, derived chlorophyll and inherent optical properties and utilises data archives from Copernicus, ESA, NASA and NOAA.

• Ocean Colour Essential Ocean Variable (EOV) Specification Sheet IOCCP (ioccp.org)

  Ocean Colour Essential Ocean Variable (EOV) Specification Sheet

• Ocean Productivity home page Oregon State University, USA

  Ocean Productivity home page – Oregon State University, USA

Supporting in-situ data archives

• A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean-colour satellite applications PANGAEA

  A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean-colour satellite applications Version 3 (2022). Article

  DOI: 10.1594/PANGAEA.941318

• ASCII File Format Guidelines for Earth Science Data NASA Earthdata

  See ASCII File Format Guidelines for Earth Science Data – recommended practices for formatting and describing ASCII encoded data files for SeaBASS.

• BOUSSOLE BOUSSOLE project (obs-vlfr.fr)

  BOUSSOLE – Buoy for the acquisition of long-term optical time series.

• British Oceanographic Data Centre British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)

  British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)

• Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Database: Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS)

  Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Database: Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS). See description of the CPR surveys which have been carried out since 1931, and which include phytoplankton species counts as well as the Phytoplankton Colour Index (PCI).

• GLORIA dataset PANGAEA

  GLORIA dataset and data descriptor

  DOI: 10.1594/PANGAEA.948492

• HyperInSpace NASA (github.com/nasa/HyperCP)

  HyperInSpace – Hyperspectral in situ support for PACE

• ICES Data Centre International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)

  ICES Data Centre (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea)

• International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange IODE (International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange)

  International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE)

• Japan Oceanographic Data Center Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC)

  Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC)

• National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service NOAA NESDIS

  National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)

• NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)

  NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)

• NOMAD NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (SeaBASS)

  NOMAD (NASA bio-Optical Marine Algorithm Data set), includes coincident observations of spectral water-leaving radiances, surface irradiances, diffuse downwelling attenuation coefficients, and chlorophyll a concentrations, along with relevant metadata, such as the date, time, and coordinates of data collection.

• SeaWiFS Bio-Optical Archive and Storage System NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (SeaBASS)

  SeaWiFS Bio-Optical Archive and Storage System (SeaBASS)

• US JGOFS Data System US JGOFS Data System (WHOI)

  US JGOFS Data System Data Set

Synthesized datasets for algorithm testing

• Synthesized Dataset from IOCCG Report 10 IOCCG

  Synthesized Dataset from IOCCG Report 10. This dataset was developed to compare the performance of various atmospheric correction algorithms. Data are provided for open ocean (Case-1) waters and for non- or weakly-absorbing aerosols (generally present in the open ocean). Examples from coastal Case-2 waters (sediment-dominated and yellow-substance dominated waters) and from strongly-absorbing aerosols are also provided. Please refer to IOCCG Report 10 for details and cite this report as follows if you use the dataset: IOCCG (2010). Atmospheric Correction for Remotely-Sensed Ocean-Colour Products. Wang, M. (ed.), Reports of the International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group, No. 10, IOCCG, Dartmouth, Canada.

• Synthesized Dataset from IOCCG Report 5 IOCCG

  Synthesized Dataset from IOCCG Report 5. This dataset contains both inherent optical properties (IOPs) and apparent optical properties (AOPs) for testing and comparing algorithms, as in IOCCG Report 5. Please cite this report as follows if you use the dataset: IOCCG (2006). Remote Sensing of Inherent Optical Properties: Fundamentals, Tests of Algorithms, and Applications. Lee, Z.-P. (ed.), Reports of the International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group, No. 5, IOCCG, Dartmouth, Canada.