2015 Satellite Oceanography User Workshop: Videos Available

Earth observation satellites can provide real-time, global, spatially and temporally high-resolution measurements of key ocean variables such as:

• ocean colour,
• sea level height, and
• sea surface temperature,

which are widely used across a range of scientific and operational applications.

Because navigating the wide range of available products and services can be confusing, our Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Virtual Constellation worked jointly with

• the Australian Bureau of Meteorology,
• the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Project Office, and
• the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)

to put together an opportunity for users to meet with and provide feedback to the data providers: a three-day Satellite Oceanography User Workshop focused on satellite-derived products of key oceanographic variables.

The Workshop Objectives were to:

• present and discuss the provision of products and services supporting satellite-based ocean products
• provide a forum for users to present and discuss their experiences and requirements for satellite based ocean products
• work through practical examples of particular interest to workshop participants

And best of all, this workshop was open to anyone using satellite-based ocean products covering altimetry, ocean colour and sea surface temperature.

Just in case you couldn’t make it, our Working Group on Capacity Building & Data Democracy (WGCapD) worked with workshop organizers to capture workshop presentations & discussion on video. Please feel free to access these resources at your leisure.

Workshop Information

Workshop Agenda, Presentations & Final Report

Workshop Videos

(Authors’ Names Shown Below, Not Presenters’ Names)

• Welcome & Logistics (Beggs)
• Opening Address – Bureau of Meteorology’s Requirements for Satellite Ocean Products (Barrell)
• Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) & its Role in Satellite Oceanography (King)
• Development of Satellite Ocean Products by CMA (Corlett
• Explaining the Marine Satellite Data Services at EUMETSAT (Bonekamp)
• An Overview of GHRSST Products and Services (Corlett)

• IMOS Ocean Colour Products (King)
• Phytoplankton Functional Types from Satellite (Hardman)
• Bureau of Meteorology Marine Water Quality Dashboard and ReefTemp NextGen (Johnson)
• Southern Ocean Satellite Data Needs (Johnson)

Ocean Winds and Waves

• Satellite Observations of Ocean Winds and Waves (Babanin)
• Satellite data for Wave Model Validation (Zieger)

Applications of Ocean Remote Sensing Products

• Remote Sensing at Work in Australia’s Ocean Territories (Griffin)
• Data Assimilation of Satellite Observations in OceanMAPS (Sandry)
• Operational Applications of SST Analyses at the Bureau of Meteorology (Qui)
• Long Term Variability on Campbell Plateau, Changes in SST and SSH (Forcen)
• Upper Ocean Statistics from Super-Resolved Sea-Surface Temperature Imagery (Keating)
• Use of IMOS-GHRSST Products to Quantify Diurnal Warming Over the Tropical Warm Pool (Zhang)
• Testing SST Capability to Capture Thermal Features and Diurnal Warming on the Great Barrier Reef (Zhu)
• Applications of Ocean Colour to Biophysical Oceanography (Weeks)
• Water Quality and River Plume Monitoring in the Great Barrier Reef: An Overview of Methods Based on Ocean Colour Satellite Data (Devlin)
• Application of the Geostationary Ocean Colour Imager (GOCI) to Mapping the Seasonal and Diurnal Dynamics of the Surface Suspended Matter in a Macro-Tidal Estuary (Cheng)
• Investigating Ocean Life at the Mesoscale: From Phytoplankton to Top Predators (Penna)
• Observational Inputs to the Numerical Models of Tsunamis: A Naïve Wish List (Allen)

Satellite Ocean Data – Portals and Tools

• Extracting and Sub-setting SRS Datasets from the IMOS Ocean Portal (Besnard)
• Ocean Remote Sensing Visualisation and Manipulation Tools (Corlett)
• Remote-sensed Oceanography Data at the Australian Antarctic Division and Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC (Sumner)
• IMOS OceanCurrent Web Site (Cahill)
• Metadata in Satellite Ocean Products (Majewski)
• Providing satellite ocean services to Pacific Island Countries using the COSPPac Ocean Portal (Smith)
• NOAA SST Quality Monitor (SQUAM) (Dash)