Generation of Gridded Ocean Color Products from Meris: an Efficient Processing Chain
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چکیده
Online services provide several Ocean Color datasets for the exploitation of Remote Sensing (RS) applied to marine and coastal areas. Despite the large number of services and data available, end users often require full resolution gridded products at regional scale. In order to provide a higher resolution datasets better suitable for coastal areas analysis and management, an efficient processing chain was developed to generate full resolution Ocean Color (OC) gridded geophysical products from MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) L1b data, using open source tools and software and parallel processing. It makes use of standard MEGS® (MERIS Ground Segment development platform) processor for geophysical parameters estimation from MERIS full resolution data (300 m spatial resolution). The processing chain has been successfully applied to a test area in northern Adriatic Sea, results of processed data and customization of the processing chain are discussed.
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