A cloud-based data analytics platform based on the Australian innovation “Australian Geoscience Data Cube” which became the international Open Data Cube (opendatacube.org) concept with partners NASA, USGS, UK Catapult, CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites).
Current EASI projects overseas in Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, US (California), Chile and Colombia. Exploring opportunities to commercialize the technology.
The IORA Indian Ocean Blue Carbon Hub aims to build knowledge about and capacity in protecting and restoring blue carbon ecosystems throughout the Indian Ocean, in a way that enhances livelihoods, reduces risks from natural disasters, and helps mitigate climate change.
Most recently the Blue Carbon Hub delivered an IORA workshop in November 2021 to develop a roadmap for the use of EO across the Indian Ocean. https://www.iora.int/en/events-media-news/events/priorities-focus-areas/blue-economy/2021/earth-observation-for-an-indian-ocean-blue-economy
Multi-disciplinary research program aimed at enabling enforcement through improved use of monitoring using a combination of statistical algorithms, ground-truthing information and satellite data (e.g. automated processing of satellite radar at whole of EEZ scales)
Bluelink produces a comprehensive suite of ocean forecasts. The Bluelink program combines state-of-the art ocean observing systems – satellite altimetry, satellite SST, autonomous Argo floats – with the latest modelling and data assimilation technology to estimate the three-dimensional ocean circulation.
An operating SAR satellite mission relying on an international partnership already between Aus (CSIRO), the UK (SSTL), India (ISRO), and the Philippines. CSIRO owns 10% capacity share of the mission. Allows Australia to have direct control over the tasking of the satellite. Opens R&D and applications opportunities in tropical areas (Pacific, Indian Oceans) and with new S-band SAR instruments
Oil spill detection algorithm using RISAT-1A, Sentinel SAR (and for future NISAR mission) developed for monitoring oil spills (opportunity based). Once detected the possible trajectory that oil spill would move is forecasted using Lagrangian Coherent Structure (LCS) based technique. Merged altimeter observations of geostrophic currents and ISRO currents are used for generating LCS maps for the Indian Region. These maps are routinely available on mosdac.gov.in.
ISRO is generating global ocean surface currents using altimeter, scatterometer and radiometer derived sea surface height (merged AVISO product), sea surface winds (Scatsatand sea surface temperature respectively.Thedaily averaged product is available from 1993 - present at 25km x 25km horizontal resolution with latency of 2 days.
Altimeter based product for North Indian ocean eddies, derived using standard method. The product consists of eddy size, eddy amplitude and eddy life. The product is generated using merged altimeter data, which contains observations from Topex/Jason/SaralAltiKa/Sentinel/Cryosat missions.
MSIL is the information sharing tool for marine related activities. The Japanese MDA initiative encourages data acquisition and data linkage among marine related ministries, institutes, and so on. MSIL provides the public data on more than 200items including satellite based information.
The Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM) is planned as the comprehensive observation system of the Earth System's essential variables of atmosphere, ocean,land, cryosphere, and ecosystem. GCOM will consist of two satellites, GCOM-W carrying the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) for understanding of the global water and energy cycle and GCOM-C carrying the Second-generation Global Imager (SGLI) for understanding of the carbon cycle and radiation budget.
GCOM-W data is widely used in meteorological agencies in the world, including JMA, NOAA, ABoM (Australian Bureau of Meteorology) and IMD (Indian Meteorological Department), for their various operational activities.
Ocean products from GCOM-C (highresolution SST, ocean color) & GCOM-W (all-weather SST) are widely used in fisheries.
“AMSR Viewer’ is the site providing global observation images and data by Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) series on board GCOM-W etc. Available in near-real-time, visualization and download with user customize.
‘JASMES portal’ is the site providing the information on the current status and seasonal/interannual variability of climate forming physical quantities, such as solar radiation, snow and sea ice cover, precipitation sea surface temperature.
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and multi-spectral satellite imagery is routinely analyzed on a 24x7x365 basis for accidental and intentional crude oil discharges within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and its approaches, and when requested by the State Dept, any ocean/gulf in the world. The Marine Pollution Surveillance Report (MPSR) is a product package created in the NESDIS Satellite Analysis Branch (SAB) when a marine anomaly is identified that’s believed to be the result of an accidental or intentional crude oil discharge. Reports are also generated for marine debris fields on an event driven, requested basis. Monitoring of elevated methane or methane leaks from offshore oil or gas rigs is under development.
The LSA collects satellite data measuring global sea level rise. LSA has been producing sea level rise measurements since 1992 on ten-day increments. LSA works in collaboration with NASA, France’s Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). One key tool produced by LSA is the Radar Altimeter Database System (RADS), a joint effort of LSA, EUMETSAT, and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. RADs provides sea level anomaly, waves, and ocean surface wind speed data to experts and entry level users.
This water-quality-focused data pathfinder is designed to help guide new users through the process of selecting and using applicable datasets, with guidance on resolutions and direct links to the data sources.
The NASA Sea Level Change Team (N-SLCT) was established in 2014 with the goal of improving the understanding of regional relative sea-level change on a range of timescales. NASA has sought to build an interdisciplinary team of scientists that can work in a collaborative environment and tackle these scientific challenges. The N-SLCT relies heavily on NASA satellite observations in addition to reanalysis and modeling efforts to advance our understanding of sea-level change in the past, present, and future. The web portal at sealevel.nasa.gov was created to communicate the understanding that was obtained from these efforts and to provide an outlet for sharing data and guidance with the global public.
NOAA has a full and open data policy for all of our satellites and in situ networks. NOAA currently provides two approaches to enable searching vast data holdings: the traditional NOAA Data Catalog for all data, and the new NOAA OneStop catalog which initially includes only the archived datasets but will eventually replace the traditional catalog. NOAA's Data Discovery Portal includes information of both of these catalogs. Further, NOAA NESDIS maintains one of the most significant archives of environmental data on the Earth through our National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). NCEI hosts and provides public access to over 37 petabytes of comprehensive atmospheric, coastal, oceanic, and geophysical data. All of this data is available to the public.
