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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.

Downloads & Resources

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

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__1
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 655ba30f-9a4e-464c-8ef1-884101967cf5
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 a4bea02ac9ab20918b00d0a03f7f19c3f180b4f50700406da2bdc3083f051f55
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2002-01-01/2014-01-01

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