"Remote Sensing of Aquatic Coastal Ecosystem Processes presents many examples of remote sensing tools which could be used in an operational sense for the benefit of managment of variousl aspects of coastal ecosystems. This chapter presents the world's fir...

This was a presentatataion given at the 20th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology held in 2004.

"The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch (CRW) program has developed a daily global 5-km product suite based on satellite observations to monitor thermal stress on coral reefs. These products fulfill requests from ...

The mapped data derived from AVHRR is divided into files for CoastWatch regions of interest. Each file contains multiple data variables stored using the HDF-4 Scientific Data Sets (SDS) model. The product contents are channel 1 albedo, channel 2 albedo, c...

Product shows local sea surface temperatures (degrees C). It is a composite gridded-image derived from 8-km resolution SST Observations. It is generated every 48 hours for North America. SST is defined as the skin temperature of the ocean surface water.

"Satellite-derived sea surface temperatures (SSTs) have been used to identify the areal extent of coral reef bleaching. A new, high_resolution satellite SST climatology has been developed to produce anomaly fields. These fields make it possible to quickly...