Table 15.3 Examples of freely available remote sensing data and data products applicable for
coral reef remote sensing
Application/product
Source
NOAA Coral Reef Watch
http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/
bleachingoutlook/index.html
Includes links to free online data from NASA,
NOAA/NESDIS, and others
Disease outbreak risk
Light stress damage
Short-term SST trends
Ocean acidification
Bleaching outlook
NOAA National Environmental
Satellite Data and Information
Service (NESDIS)
http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/
Sea surface temperature
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/ocean/sst.html
Ocean surface current analyses—real
time
http://www.oscar.noaa.gov/index.html
Bathymetry
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/
relief.html
Ocean color
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/ocean/color.html
Sea surface height
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/ocean/ssheight.html
Winds
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/air/wind.html
NASA Physical Oceanography DAAC
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/
Gravity
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/gravity
Sea surface temperature
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SeaSurfaceTemperature
Sea surface salinity
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SeaSurfaceSalinity
Ocean winds
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanWind%20
Ocean currents & circulation
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanCurrentsCirculation
Ocean surface topography
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanSurfaceTopography
NASA MODIS Level 1 Data
http://ladsweb.nascom.nasa.gov/index.html
USGS Earth Resources Observation
and Science Center
http://glovis.usgs.gov/
Landsat and MODIS data
Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project http://www.imars.usf.edu/MC/index.html
Output products
Millennium Coral Reef Landsat Archive http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/Landsat.pl
Reefbase
http://www.reefbase.org/gis_maps/download.aspx
GIS datasets
Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/
University of Queensland Marine Remote
Sensing Toolkit
http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/cser-rstoolkit
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