Data Access

Data Distribution Status

All systems nominal

NOTE: FTP connections must be made in PASSIVE mode

Level 1 and 2 Browser

Visually search the ocean color data archive. Directly download or order data from a single file to an entire mission.

Level 3 Browser

Browse the entire global ocean color data set for many parameters and time periods and download PNG images or digital data in HDF format.

Global Time Series

Time series plots of selected SeaWiFS, MODIS and OCTS Standard Mapped Images for a set of selected regions or the entire globe.

Data Archive

Access to the complete data archive via an 'FTP-like' directory structure. This replaces most of the functionality of the FTP server. Retrieval of data in bulk is possible with this new server.

Ocean Productivity

Ocean Net Primary Productivity data products derived from MODIS and/or SeaWiFS data available from Oregon State University.

Giovanni

An easy-to-use, Web-based interface for the visualization and analysis of Earth Science data provided by the GES DISC DAAC.

Support Services

SeaDAS

A comprehensive image analysis package for the processing, display, analysis, and quality control of ocean color data.

SeaBASS

An archive of in situ oceanographic and atmospheric data for use in algorithm development and satellite data product validation.

Registration for support services:

Near Real-Time (NRT) Services:

NRT Data Subscriptions
Subscriptions allow users to specify regions for NRT data to be continually staged on our FTP server for download.

Information Services:

Other Services:

Satellite Overflight Predictions
SeaWiFS LAC scheduling
Data subscription status
L1/L2 browser order status
File Search Utility
Search for satellite and ancillary data archived by the ocean color data production system.

Ocean Color Feature

Recent topics and imagery of interest to the OceanColor community.

A Boost for SeaWiFS

It's a pleasure to let everyone know that after much planning, some great teamwork on the part of all the folks involved and thirteen burns, SeaWiFS is now happily orbiting the earth from its new altitude of 781.5 kilometers. This orbit raising, along with a very slight change in the inclination, has not only stopped the rapidly accelerating drift of the spacecraft into the afternoon (it is now crossing the equator at approximately 2:20 pm local time) but has reversed that drift, and the spacecraft will now gradually return to an orbit with a crossing time closer to 12:20 pm. The SeaWiFS instrument resumed routine operations on July 12, 2010, and we received our first downlink and the data look fine. We will be looking closely at the data to see what, if any, change there might be due to the change in orbit, but we don't anticipate anything major.

SeaWiFS will be celebrating the 13th anniversary of its launch on August 1, 1997 this year, so rather than a cake with thirteen candles, perhaps it is appropriate that it required 13 burns to put it back into an orbit that will allow it to continue collecting this unprecedented record of our changing earth.