CSIRO Marine Research

Remote Sensing Project

Regular features:

SST map of Australia
Interactive composite
image for the last
seven days

Online SST images
(restricted access)

Spectacular images
(NOAA AVHRR)

Yacht race info
(surface conditions)

Weather Info
Latest images
and links to BoM

Remote sensing
Useful information

19/10/2004:

A significant algal bloom is visible in these sequences of images

captured from the Modis satellite.

Online Sea Surface Temperature Imagery

Restricted Online Sea Surface Temperature Imagery

The CSIRO Marine Labs Remote Sensing Facility is funded by the Division of Marine Research. Therefore access to this service is limited to CSIRO Marine Researchers, approved colleagues, students and collaborators only. These users must agree to the following conditions of use. All other users will be denied access. Internal users, see user access guidelines .

Archival Images..

  • Images for Rudi Kloser 2004 October-December
  • Images for SWARMES project 2003
  • Images for SWARMES project 2004 January-June
  • Images for SWARMES project 2004 October-December
  • The Great Australian Bite 2003 January-March
  • The Great Australian Bite 2003 April-June
  • The Great Australian Bite 2003 July-September
  • The Great Australian Bite 2003 October-December
  • The Great Australian Bite 2004 January-June
  • The Great Australian Bite 2004 October-December
  • New Caledonia 2003 January-March
  • New Caledonia 2003 April-June
  • New Caledonia 2003 July-September
  • New Caledonia 2003 October-December
  • New Caledonia 2004 January-June
  • New Caledonia 2004 October-December
  • The Northern Eastern Seaboard 2003 January-March
  • The Northern Eastern Seaboard 2003 April-June
  • The Northern Eastern Seaboard 2003 July-September
  • The Northern Eastern Seaboard 2003 October-December
  • The Northern Eastern Seaboard 2004 January-June
  • The Northern Eastern Seaboard 2004 October-December
  • Queensland Regional Waters 2003 January-March
  • Queensland Regional Waters 2003 April-June
  • Queensland Regional Waters 2003 July-September
  • Queensland Regional Waters 2003 October-December
  • Queensland Regional Waters 2004 January-June
  • Queensland Regional Waters 2004 October-December
  • The Southern Eastern Seaboard 2003 January-March
  • The Southern Eastern Seaboard 2003 April-June
  • The Southern Eastern Seaboard 2003 July-September
  • The Southern Eastern Seaboard 2003 October-December
  • The Southern Eastern Seaboard 2004 January-June
  • The Southern Eastern Seaboard 2004 October-December
  • Tasmanian Regional Waters 2003 January-March
  • Tasmanian Regional Waters 2003 April-June
  • Tasmanian Regional Waters 2003 July-September
  • Tasmanian Regional Waters 2003 October-December
  • Tasmanian Regional Waters 2004 January-June
  • Tasmanian Regional Waters 2004 October-December
  • Southern Western Australia 2003 January-March
  • Southern Western Australia 2003 April-June
  • Southern Western Australia 2003 July-September
  • Southern Western Australia 2003 October-December
  • Southern Western Australia 2004 January-June
  • Southern Western Australia 2004 October-December

    • If you are asked for a username and a password, you will need to enter a commercial arrangement with CSIRO Marine Research for access to the specially prepared NOAA AVHRR SST imagery.

    Colour is used in the images to describe surface temperature. A scale bar shows the relationship between colour and temperature. SST values are usually accurate to one degree provided that clouds are not in the near vicinity. Geographic information such as; land mask, coastline, state borders, 200m depth contour and latitude-longitude grid are superimposed on the images.

    The availability and usefulness of images depends on clear skies as the NOAA satellite's AVHRR satellite sensors are not able obtain surface data from beneath clouds.Contamination by cloud is shown by: white areas over the sea, warmer narrow strips at cloud edges and less obviously by reduced values (caused by thin cloud and sea fog).

    Click here to learn more about how the facility process and apply satellite-derived estimates of sea surface temperature.

    For more information contact
    marine-remote-sensing@csiro.au

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