Welcome to the International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group

Promoting development and applications of science and technology that underpin remote sensing of ocean colour across all aquatic environments (in-land, coastal, open ocean), through coordination, training, liaising between providers and users, advocacy, and provision of expert advice.

The International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG) is an international Committee of experts comprised of representatives from national space agencies and research scientists from the aquatic radiometry user community. It was established in 1996 under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, following a resolution endorsed by the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). IOCCG promotes development and applications of science and technology that underpin remote sensing of ocean colour across all aquatic environments (in-land, coastal, open-ocean) through coordination, training, liaison between providers (space agencies) and users (scientists), advocacy, and provision of expert advice. Objectives include developing consensus and synthesis at the world scale in the subject area of satellite ocean colour radiometry (OCR), establishing specialised scientific working groups to investigate various aspects of ocean colour technology and its applications, and addressing continuity and consistency of ocean colour radiance datasets through the CEOS OCR-Virtual Constellation. The IOCCG also has a strong interest in capacity building, and conducts and sponsors advanced ocean colour training courses in various countries around the world.

The IOCCG is an Affiliated Programme of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and an Associate Member of CEOS. The activities of the IOCCG are supported by national space agencies and other organisations, and by infrastructure support from SCOR and the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada) where the IOCCG Project Office is hosted.

Highlights

Register for the online training course: Satellite-based tools for investigating aquatic ecosystems running from April – July 2023, organized by the TPS Foundation.

Congrats to the inaugural 2023 IOCCG Trevor Platt Scholars: Arjun Adhikari (from India) and David Alejandro Gonzalez Rivas (from Mexico). Look out for more information on their experiences in up-coming IOCCG news bulletins.

IOCCG Twitter Feed

6 days ago
#Publication Lin et al. (2022) showed a method to derive the uncertainty budget for measurements from the Seabird Hyperspectral Surface Acquisition System and indicated how the measurement procedure could be improved.

Read the paper: https://t.co/oUFe1zymCE https://t.co/voQWWPCqjC
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12 days ago
#EOJobs 🇬🇧 Lecturer in Marine Remote Sensing, University of Plymouth, UK. Expertise in development of remote sensing methods or in the application of remote sensing to the marine environment are welcomed.

Apply by 3 April 2023
https://t.co/pwSt4ydvcM https://t.co/P92L2YSQAI
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32 days ago
The NASA Pace mission has entered its year-of-launch! All mission elements are getting ready for launch on 9 January 2024 from the Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA! Read the update in our news bulletin https://t.co/0DK13dhvRo or the PACE Community Newsletter https://t.co/xLqueX8Eg6 https://t.co/GYrUcUgm5u
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33 days ago
📣 GLORIA Dataset released! 📣 Global Reflectance community dataset for Imaging and optical sensing of Aquatic environments is an extensive inventory of analysis-ready in situ hyperspectral Rrs spectra across fresh and coastal waters.
https://t.co/8LcH1rlZhh https://t.co/A17A5t02pp
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34 days ago
Sign up now for the NASA Sponsored 4-week workshop on Calibration and Validation of Ocean Color Remote Sensing at Bowdoin College’s Schiller Coastal Studies Center, Orr’s Island, Maine 🇺🇸 from 12 June - 7 July 2023. Read more and apply by 15 March 2023.

https://t.co/BsnhTaxqoe https://t.co/y2Q9qdNouT
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34 days ago
Last week to submit proposals to chair a breakout workshop at IOCS-2023, scheduled for Nov in St. Petersburg, FL, USA. Themes include ocean colour emerging tech, societal value, & application to ecosystem function & change.
https://t.co/U7yFZLwDrK https://t.co/uXSF9VTsEw
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