Project Goals

Develop and maintain a consistent multi-decadal time series of ocean color data

Develop and maintain simplified user access and support for the time series that spans missions

Project Elements

• Input Data Sets
• Community Participation (Meetings, Workshops, etc.)
• Data Processing
• User Tools
  • Giovanni
  • SeaDAS
• Laboratory for Ocean Color Users (LOCUS)

Project Origins

• Volume 17, SeaWiFS Prelaunch Technical Report Series:
  Ocean Color in the 21st Century: A Strategy for a 20-Year Time Series
• SIMBIOS Program:
  Development of a Consistent Multi-Sensor Ocean Color Time Series (PDF Document)
• REASoN-CAN Program
  • Research, Education, and Applications Solution Network CAN-02-OES-01
  • List of REASoN Proposal Winners

Mission Descriptions

• CZCS
  
• OCTS
  
• SeaWiFS
  
• MODIS-Terra
  
• MODIS-Aqua
  
• NPP-VIIRS
  
• NPOESS-VIIRS
  

PI and Co-Is

• Watson Gregg, PI
• Wayne Esaias, Co-I
• Charles McClain, Co-I
• Gene Feldman, Co-I
• Steve Kempler, Co-I
• Gregory Leptoukh, Co-I
• James Acker, Co-I

Current Status

Giovanni is now available! Set sail on scientific journeys of data exploration with SeaWiFS data and the GES DISC DAAC's data analysis tool Giovanni.

Link section

• GES DISC
  
• SeaWiFS Project
  
• Ocean Biology Processing Group
  
• MODIS Project
  
• VIIRS