Topic 4A - Introduction To Monitoring The Oceans

Image of algae bloom off irelands west coast taken by ENVISATs MERIS instrument

ESA

Conceptual view of (a) oceanic and atmospheric processes influencing air-sea interactions, and (b) corresponding properties observable by remote sensing

Griet Neukermans et al., 2018

This image of the Pacific Ocean was produced using sea surface height measurements taken by the U.S./French TOPEX/Poseidon satellite. The image shows sea surface height relative to normal ocean conditions on Dec. 1, 1997.

NASA/JPL

Illustration of Sentinel-3

ESA–Pierre Carril

Graphic displaying Ocean remote sensing capabilities

ESA

In this image, acquired by Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument on 28 April 2010 at 03:45 UTC, the oil spill is visible as a lighter grey whirl on the left side of the large black pattern stretching across the Gulf.

ESA

This is a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image showing oceanographic features just off of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, USA

Canadian Space Agency

The Sentinel-1A satellite counts fishing cages in the western Mediterranean Sea.

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2016] /ESA/ACRI

An infographoc from Airbus, on the Copernicus-6 satellite

Airbus

This image is a composite of maritime traffic in the English channel from Sentinel-1 between 1st January 2015 - 1st January 2019

Simon Gascoin/CNES/Copernicus Sentinel-1

On 1 May 2016, the Sentinel-2A satellite captured an algal bloom close to Belgium’s coast.

contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016), processed by RBINS