News

September 2010

Distribution of COASTCOLOUR data to participants of the multi-sensor Round Robin

July 2010

Newsletter 1 available

June 2010

Report available

17./18. February 2010

COASTCOLOUR presentation at SAFARI Remote Sensing and Fisheries International Workshop in Kochi, India

04.-05. 02. 2010

Kick-off meeting attended by 15 scientists and ESA staff members.

Software and Production

More than 35TB of MERIS FRS products from coastal zone will be processed using BEAM Technology. The software will be under the GNU Public License.

The COASTCOLOUR Project

The European Space Agency has launched the COASTCOLOUR project to fully exploit the potential of the MERIS instrument for remote sensing of the coastal zone. The product requirements have been derived from a user consultation process. All data will be made online available from this Website.
COASTCOLOUR is developing, demonstrating, validating and intercomparing different Case 2 algorithms over a global range of coastal water types, identifying best practices, and promoting discussion of the results in an open, public form.

 

 

Coastal Water Challenges

The task of retrieving water optical properties and concentrations from reflections spectra in coastal waters is a complex matter. In contrast to case 1 water, where by definition, only 1 component determines the variability of the water leaving radiance reflectance, ...

COASTCOLOUR products

Coastcolour will process all available MERIS Full Resolution (300m) of the champion user test sites (and possibly more). The coastcolour products will include a set of basic quantities which will be generated over all sites (TOA radiances, water leaving reflectances, IOPs and concentrations) ...

The test sites.

In the description below it should be recognised that a given site is likely to have a wide range of oceanographic and hence optical characteristics and the user interest may be focussed on one small part.