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Visually search the ocean color data archive. Directly download or order data from a single file to an entire mission.

Browse the entire global ocean color data set for many parameters and time periods and download PNG images or digital data in HDF format.

Time series plots of selected SeaWiFS, MODIS and OCTS Standard Mapped Images for a set of selected regions or the entire globe.

The FTP access to our most popular data products, including the complete Level 3 data archive.

Ocean Net Primary Productivity data products derived from MODIS and/or SeaWiFS data available from Oregon State University.

An easy-to-use, Web-based interface for the visualization and analysis of Earth Science data provided by the GES DISC DAAC.


Ocean Color Web Feature
Recent topics and imagery of interest to the OceanColor community. How can ye blume sae fair! So wrote Robert Burns of The Banks o' Doon, but he might have said the same about the North Sea on the other side of Scotland if he could have seen it the way we do. The air to the west of Scotland was hazy on May 8, 2008, but clearer skies over the North Sea revealed multihued waters colored by divers phytoplankton assemblages. (Click on the above image to see more of the region at higher resolution.)






Image Gallery NOTE: All SeaWiFS images presented here are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye Ocean Color Distribution Statistics


Support Services
SeaDAS A comprehensive image analysis package for the processing, display, analysis, and quality control of ocean color data.
SeaBASS An archive of in situ oceanographic and atmospheric data for use in algorithm development and satellite data product validation.
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