NOAA CoastWatch
Central Operations & Regional Nodes The extensive flooding due to Tropical Storm Lee is impacting the Chesapeake Bay with sediment-laden flood waters. Satellites are being used to track the extent of the plume of sediment and to help understand the effects of sediment pollution on the Bay's ecosystem. More information and daily tracking of this plume is available at NOAA CoastWatch East Coast Regional Node.


Central Operations Regional Nodes
Regional and global SST, winds, and ocean color products and data streams Local data, products, and service specific to region


NOAA CoastWatch now provides access to MERIS imagery and data products. Imagery can be browsed through our Product Search. Data (CW-HDF) access requires approval by the European Space Agency. To become an approved MERIS user, please visit the ESA Earth Observation Principal Investigator Portal (EOPI): http://eopi.esa.int . If you have additional questions on data access proposals, contact the help desk: eohelp@esa.int.
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MERIS 300 meter RGB of West Florida Shelf.
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MOBY Deployment 246 data is now available on the CoastWatch webserver. [Jun 2011]

MOBY operations will continue through early 2012 through a grant to the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. [Jan 2011]