May 5th, 1997 POLDER (POLarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectances) image showing warm waters of the Gulf Stream (deep blue), which are clearly distinct from colder northern waters (greenish). In the North-East of the image the highly productive region off Nova Scotia can be observed (red).
Reproduced with permission of Laboratoire d'Optique Atmospherique (LOA), Lille, FR;
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Envrionnement (LSCE), Gif sur Yvette, FR;
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Toulouse, FR; and National Space Development Agency (NASDA), Japan.
For more information on, and links to POLDER, click here.
