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training courses Course on Primary Production at University of Concepción Remote Sensing Applications Workshop IOCCG Fellowships
Reprocessing Update The SeaWiFS project office has requested feedback from the ocean colour community on the results of the extensive analyses carried out in preparation for the planned fourth reprocessing of the SeaWiFS data set. These results have been posted on a special web page dedicated to the reprocessing.
Ocean Color Panorama
Data Transfer
SeaDAS 4.2 released
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Last month saw the launch of a further two new satellites carrying ocean-colour sensors: NASA's Aqua satellite carrying the MODIS sensor and the Chinese HY-1 satellite carrying the COCTS sensor. This brings the total number of ocean-colour sensors in orbit to ten! This suite of sensors will help to ensure continuity of a long-term, uninterrupted ocean-colour data stream.
MODIS-Aqua Launched
HY-1 Launched The Chinese HY-1 satellite carrying the Chinese Ocean Colour and Temperature Scanner (COCTS) was successfully launched by a CZ-4B rocket at the Taiyun Satellite Launching Center in north China's Shanxi Province, on 15 May, 2002. The satellite was placed in a near sun-synchronous polar orbit at an altitude of 798 km. The main sensors include the 10-band COCTS as well as a 4-band charge-coupled device (CCD). The first orbit images were received by ground stations in Beijing and Sanya, on 29 May, 2002 and both instruments appear to be working well.
A three-day training course, on general-purpose IDL tools to analyse and visualise MERIS data will be conducted by ACRIST at Sophia-Antipolis, France from July 22-24, 2002. Dr. Marcel Babin, from the Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer will also be giving a presentation on MERIS ocean processing. The course organisers are willing to conduct additional courses elsewhere upon request.
For details, visit the Training & Education page.
Several new references, and three new employment opportunities, have been added to the website.
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IOCCG will be sponsoring a graduate course on 'Primary production: Theory, modelling and estimation by remote sensing' at the University of Concepción, Chile from October 21 to November 1, 2002. This course will be a part of an International eight-course series organised by the University of Concepción, Chile. The series is targeted at graduate and senior undergraduate students from Latin America and runs from September 2, 2002 to January 2003. For further details on the primary production course visit the IOCCG 
The IOCCG will be co-sponsoring another ocean-colour workshop in the Pacific entitled, The 2nd Remote Sensing Applications Workshop. It will take place in Nadi, Fiji from 8-10 October, 2002. This workshop is a follow on from the workshop on Remote Sensing Resources for Marine Management, which was held in Noumea, New Caledonia last September, and is designed to develop strategies considered appropriate for regional implementation. The workshop is open to invited delegates from Pacific Island nations who have both the interest and authority to propose and implement plans for regional management of marine resources. For further details about the workshop, visit the IOCCG
NASA's Earth-observing Aqua satellite was launched on May 4, 2002, from Vandenburg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II rocket. Aqua will help scientists understand the Earth's water cycle and environment, using six different remote-sensing instruments. It also carries the second Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument.
One of the first images sent by HY-1