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Figure1:200meterbathymetry

Welcometooperationalremotesensing.Dataforimagesiscapturedinrealtimeatthe
receivingstationoftheOceanResearchandMonitoringSection,BedfordInstituteof
Oceanography.Seasurfacetemperatureimagesarederivedfrominformationsensedby
theAVHRRinstrumentsflownontheNOAAseriesofsatellites.The200meterbathymetry
isshownontheseimages.Chlorophyllconcentrationimagesareproduced
fromSeaWiFSdatacollectedontheOrbView2satellite.
PrimaryProductionimagesarederivedfromthesemimonthlycompositesofchlorophyll
concentrationandtemperature.Themotivationbehindthisworkistogenerateatime
seriesofimagesdescribingthestateoftheNWAtlantic,withrespecttoitsphysicaland
biologicalcondition,thatcanbeusedasaresearchtoolinthestudyoftheinterrelation
betweenfisheriesandecosystemfunctions.Thevalueoftheserieswillgrowasitsduration
increases.
Twosetsofimagesareavailablehere:
SemimonthlycompositesoftheAtlanticZoneTheseimagescoverthearea39Nto
62.5Nand42Wto71Wandhaveadataresolutionofabout1.5kmperpixel.The
resolutionhasbeenreducedtoapproximately2kmperpixelfordisplayonthisweb
site.Allofthedataavailableforeachhalfmontharecombinedtoproducea
compositeimage.Wheretherearemultiplepixelsatanylocation,theyareaveraged.
IndividualsatellitepassesforpredefinedareasNineareashavebeenselectedfor
processingintoimagesof512x512pixels.Eachsatellitepassreceivedisprocessed
intothesenineareas.
QuartermonthlycompositesoftheExtendedAtlanticZoneTheseimagescoverthe
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area39Nto82Nand42Wto95Wandhaveadataresolutionofabout4kmper
pixel.Allofthedataavailableforeachquartermontharecombinedtoproducea
compositeimage.Wheretherearemultiplepixelsatanylocation,theyareaveraged.
FormoreinformationcontactCarlaCaverhill(Caverhillc@mar.dfompo.gc.ca).
UseoftheSeaWiFSdataforscientificresearchisgrantedcourtesyofNASA.

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