Level 3 products documentation and access

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ESA demonstration products

A number of demonstration MERIS Level 3 products are available for the complete mission. They are created using the standard L2 products processed with the last processor version.

MERIS level 3 demonstration products: http://envisat.esa.int/level3/meris/

MERIS marine level 3 products - Quality Control: http://www.enviport.org/meris/meris_lv3_qc/meris_lv3_qc.htm

GlobColour

The GlobColour project has been initiated and funded by the ESA Data User Element Programme to develop a satellite based ocean colour data service to support global carbon-cycle research and operational oceanography. It aims to satisfy the scientific requirement for a long (10+ year) time-series of consistently calibrated global ocean colour information with the best possible spatial coverage. In order to cover the long time span necessary for climate monitoring purposes, the required ocean colour data set can only be built by merging together observations made with different satellite systems. To that purpose, MERIS products are merged with MODIS and SeaWiFS and a Full Data Set (FPS) covering more than 10 years of observation has been built and made available to the scientific community and in particular to the key users of the project: IOCCP, IOCCG and UKMO. Data is available through both an ftp server and a web data-distribution portal (HERMES)

GlobColour web site: http://www.globcolour.info/

GlobColour Product User Guide: http://www.globcolour.info/CDR_Docs/GlobCOLOUR_PUG.pdf
GlobColour Validation Report: http://www.globcolour.info/validation/report/GlobCOLOUR_FVR_v1.1.pdf
GlobColour Final Report: http://www.globcolour.info/docs/GlobColour_FR_v1.0.pdf

GlobColour ftp server (FPS): ftp://globcolour_data:fgh678@ftp.acri.fr/FPS
GlobColour ftp server (DDS): ftp://globcolour_data:fgh678@ftp.acri.fr/DDS
GlobColour ftp server (NRT): ftp://globcolour_data:fgh678@ftp.acri.fr/FPS/NRT

Data-distribution portal: HERMES web site: http://hermes.acri.fr/