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GP141 - Satellite Remote Sensing of the Oceans

Instructor: Kevin Arrigo
office: Mitchell 355
phone: (650) 723-3599
e-mail: arrigo@stanford.edu
TA: Molly Palmer

office: Mitchell B25
office hours: tbd
e-mail: mapalmer@stanford.edu
Technical Support: Gert van Dijken
office: Mitchell A67
phone: (650) 736-1231
e-mail: gertvd@stanford.edu
Winter Quarter 2008, 4 credits
Lectures Room: Mitchell 461
Computer Labs: Mitchel A65 (sub-basement)

- Syllabus

- Lecture/Lab Notes, Problem Sets

- Grading Breakdown:

- Handy Websites:

- Ocean Color

OceanColor Web
SeaWiFS
- SeaWiFS Homepage
- NASA-Authorized SeaWiFS User Registration Info
- Full resolution Global SeaWiFS Level-3 Standard Mapped Images - Handy to quickly pinpoint your area/dates of interest before ordering 'all' available L1 or L2 datafiles
- SeaWiFS Data Products Description (L1A, L2, L3, etc.)
- SeaDAS - SeaWiFS Data Analysis System
MODIS

MODIS - Homepage
OceanColor Web - MODIS Chla and SST data
MODIS Rapid Response System: Near Real Time Level 2 Browse

- AVHRR

- Miscellaneous

EOS Data Gateway - Access to lots of different satellite data sets
TOMS ozone data
Passive microwave sea ice data
- National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
- Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentration (***)
QuickSCAT Seawinds Data
Julian Day Lookup Table: leap or no-leap year
HDF file format:
- NCSA HDF Home Page
  - Java HDF Viewer - on ocean type: jhv. (Window, Solaris, Linux, Mac Intel, Mac Power PC,...)