Region: Southern Ocean
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IMOS Estuarine and Coastal Moorings – Western Australia
IMOS Estuarine and Coastal Moorings Western Australia will establish two monitoring sites in Exmouth Gulf to improve understanding of coastal dynamics in this ecologically important region. The Gulf faces growing pressure from human activities, development, and climate change, with a new marine park planned for its southern and eastern areas. Moored and bottom-mounted instruments will…
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Surface Waves
Surface Waves provides oceanic wave data and wave products using satellite remote sensing. The key aims of Surface Waves is to calibrate and distribute surface ocean wave data from both current and next-generation satellite missions, supporting ongoing and emerging research and industry and service operations in Australia. The efficiency of and high-quality data produced by…
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Remote Sensing Collections
Remote Sensing Collections is a data management activity, developed to improve access to satellite remote sensed marine products and as such does not directly deploy instruments. The primary focus of Remote Sensing Collections is sea surface temperature and ocean colour products, but also assists the other Satellite Remote Sensing sub-Facilities, facilitating data availability and facilitate…
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Ground Stations
Ground Stations operate and service a reception antenna at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in Townsville, Queensland to support the collection and streaming of satellite remote sensing data to national and international data centres. This Ground Station extends data coverage into the equatorial part of the Western Pacific Ocean and complements other ground…
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Ocean Colour
Ocean colour measured from space using satellite remote sensing, provides information on suspended particles within the water that alter the absorption and reflection of light. These changes in ocean colour is often used to infer the concentration of phytoplankton, however based upon their interactions with light, particulate organic matter and particulate inorganic matter is also…
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Sea Surface Temperature Products
The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Satellite Remote Sensing Sub-Facility in a collaborative effort with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology produce high-resolution satellite sea surface temperature (SST) products over the Australian and Southern Ocean regions, designed to suit a range of operational and research applications. All these products follow the latest International Group for High Resolution…