Feature Image: a 7-day composite sea surface image off the U.S. northeast coast area on December 8, 1998.

Background

NOAA's CoastWatch Program was implemented in 1988, after a "red tide" event occurred off the North Carolina coast in the fall of 1987. The primary objective of CoastWatch is to provide near-real-time remotely sensed environmental data collected from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) available to federal and state decision makers, local marine scientists and coastal resource managers in a timely and accessible manner. Retrospective CoastWatch data products are provided online through NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).

The Latest AVHRR SST Images

• Near Real-Time SST Images:
  Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico · Great Lakes · Hawaii · East Coast · West Coast

Other Satellite Information Links

Satellite Data Links

• Real-Time NOAA AVHRR Imagery:
  • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Ocean Remote Sensing Group *
  • Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences *
  • University of California, Santa Barbara, Institute for Computational Earth System Science *
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
• Real-Time GOES Imagery:
  • NOAA
  • Naval Atlantic Meteorology and Oceanography Center
  • University of Wisconsin, Space Science and Engineering Center *

Satellite Mission Sites

• GEOSAT Follow-On *
• Office of Earth Science
  • ASTER
  • SeaWiFS
  • TOMS
  • TOPEX/Poseidon
• RADARSAT *
• SIR-C / X-SAR - Shuttle Imaging Radar Mission SAR Images of the Earth
• Altimetry Magazine *

Acknowledgments

This system is developed jointly by personnel from the NODC Marine Data Stewardship Division and the OAR Pacific Marine Environmental Research Laboratory. Funding for this work was partially supported by the NOAA ESDIM (Environmental Services Data and Information Management) Program office.