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IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - MODIS - 01 day - Ocean Colour - SST

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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The MODIS Sea Surface Temperature product is derived from MODIS bands 31 and 32 according to the algorithm described at https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd/sst/. This is not a GHRSST-quality product, and demanding applications requiring a high standard of accuracy should consider using one of the IMOS GHRSST products in preference. The MODIS SST is nevertheless useful primarily because it is measured at the same time as the water leaving radiances used to derive the optical properties (eg chl). This means it is both contemporaneous, and has a matching cloud mask, so it is valuable for applications that seek to combine both SST and optical properties (ie Net Primary Productivity variants). The data set provided here matches the Chl_oci product in temporal and spatial extent. This SRS dataset covers waters around Australia. Production of contemporary MODIS data ceased at 2024/12/26. Users requiring similar Ocean Colour Radiometry data beyond 2024 should consider the VIIRS instruments on the SNPP and NOAA20+ series of satellites, also provided by IMOS.

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Title IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - MODIS - 01 day - Ocean Colour - SST
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f782c4a8-bfaf-4518-af7b-83f53cf5962c
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Edward.King@csiro.au
Reference Period 04/07/2002 - 26/12/2024
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - MODIS - 01 day - Ocean Colour - SST". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/imos-satellite-remote-sensing-modis-01-day-ocean-colour-sst