NOAA CoastWatch SOCD's NOAA CoastWatch program transitions SOCD and NASA research to
operations by developing and implementing the delivery of near-real-time
developmental satellite data and products to the user community
for evaluation, feedback, use, education, and outreach in support of
NOAA's strategic goals. Primary users include government, military,
and the commercial and public sectors. CoastWatch is made up of a
Central Operations Center and seven regional nodes, located
throughout the United States on all coastlines, including the Great
Lakes Region. As IOOS develops, NOAA CoastWatch will be a component
of NOAA's contribution to the IOOS National Backbone for satellite
ocean remote sensing. CoastWatch's regional structure will provide
support to the IOOS Regional Associations.
Figure 14. CoastWatch Central Command (yellow) and Regional Nodes (white).
OceanWatch
OceanWatch, recently initiated, extends NOAA CoastWatch to a broader
context, including international participation. OceanWatch comprises a
system of systems for sustained, operational satellite ocean remote
sensing data, products, and services. Efforts focus on the development of
utilities, tools, and techniques for working with, using, and applying
satellite ocean data. In addition to near-real-time satellite
data/product support, OceanWatch will include a climatological dimension.
Initial OceanWatch components include NOAA CoastWatch, the West Coast
OceanWatch node at the NOAA Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory
(PFEL), the Central Pacific OceanWatch node at the NOAA Pacific Islands
Fisheries Science Center, and China CoastWatch (under development). The OceanWatch North
Pacific Demonstration Project expands satellite data availability to the
majority of the eastern coast of Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines,
American Samoa, Hawaii (north and south), New Zealand and the west coast
of South America. Providing operational near-real-time high resolution
ocean satellite coverage to the world ocean by 2008 is the goal. The
OceanWatch construct parallels, supports, and, effectively, implements an
initial small piece of GOOS and GEOS.
Figure 15. OceanWatch areas shown in black are an expansion added to the
original CoastWatch areas shown in red.
WIPE
To aid in providing processed data to users, the World-Wide Web (WWW)
Image Processing Environment (WIPE) was developed. WIPE is an automated
interactive web-based system built to manipulate and fuse recent and
historical satellite imagery to produce high-level products at the user's
request. WIPE provides server-based processing of interactive user-
specified satellite data composite images/files, returning just the final
product; thereby, eliminating requirements for a user to have high-volume
communications links and processing capabilities for very-large satellite
data sets.
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3. Capabilities
SOCD's NOAA CoastWatch program transitions SOCD and NASA research to
operations by developing and implementing the delivery of near-real-time
developmental satellite data and products to the user community
for evaluation, feedback, use, education, and outreach in support of
NOAA's strategic goals. Primary users include government, military,
and the commercial and public sectors. CoastWatch is made up of a
Central Operations Center and seven regional nodes, located
throughout the United States on all coastlines, including the Great
Lakes Region. As IOOS develops, NOAA CoastWatch will be a component
of NOAA's contribution to the IOOS National Backbone for satellite
ocean remote sensing. CoastWatch's regional structure will provide
support to the IOOS Regional Associations.
OceanWatch comprises a
system of systems for sustained, operational satellite ocean remote
sensing data, products, and services. Efforts focus on the development of
utilities, tools, and techniques for working with, using, and applying
satellite ocean data. In addition to near-real-time satellite
data/product support, OceanWatch will include a climatological dimension.
Initial OceanWatch components include NOAA CoastWatch, the West Coast
OceanWatch node at the NOAA Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory
(PFEL), the Central Pacific OceanWatch node at the NOAA Pacific Islands
Fisheries Science Center, and China CoastWatch (under development). The OceanWatch North
Pacific Demonstration Project expands satellite data availability to the
majority of the eastern coast of Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines,
American Samoa, Hawaii (north and south), New Zealand and the west coast
of South America. Providing operational near-real-time high resolution
ocean satellite coverage to the world ocean by 2008 is the goal. The
OceanWatch construct parallels, supports, and, effectively, implements an
initial small piece of GOOS and GEOS.