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    • AERONET-OCEAN COLOR

    Metadata Updated: April 11, 2025

    The Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET), developed to sustain atmospheric studies at various scales with measurements from worldwide distributed autonomous sun-photometers has been extended to support marine applications. This new network component called AERONET – Ocean Color (AERONET-OC), provides the additional capability of measuring the radiance emerging from the sea (i.e., water-leaving radiance) with modified sun-photometers installed on offshore platforms like lighthouses, oceanographic and oil towers. AERONET-OC is instrumental in satellite ocean color validation activities through standardized measurements a) performed at different sites with a single measuring system and protocol, b) calibrated with an identical reference source and method, and c) processed with the same code.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    References

    http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/Documents/Feb232011.zip
    http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/Documents/Feb242011.zip

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2025
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2025
    Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier NASA-0000007__2
    Data First Published 2018-06-25
    Data Last Modified 2025-03-31
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Dictionary http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/units-ocean.html
    Harvest Object Id 2d718a8e-4ab8-4bed-b745-3bce2f3b0c61
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/ocean_color.html
    Old Spatial Global
    Program Code 026:001
    Related Documents http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/Documents/Feb232011.zip, http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/Documents/Feb242011.zip
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9b581412259f805471ca14d4ed8840319d23a9461c57e0676fe4f598aee1dd97
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2002-01-01/2014-01-01

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