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AATSR Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer
AC Atmospheric Correction
ATBD Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document
BEAM Basic ERS and Envisat (A)ATSR and MERIS Toolbox
BOUSSOLE Bouée pour l’acquisition de Séries Optiques à Long Terme
BPAC Bright Pixel Atmospheric Correction
CDOM Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter
CEOS The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
CF Climate and Forecast
CFI Customer-furnished item
CNES Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
COM Coloured Organic Matter
COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf software
CZCS Coastal Zone Color Scanner
DPM Detailed Processing Model
DUE Data User Element of the ESA Earth Observation Envelope
Programme II
ECSS European Cooperation for Space Standardization
EO Earth Observation
EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data and Information System
ESA European Space Agency
ESL Expert Support Laboratories
EU European Union
EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological
Satellites
GAC Global Area Coverage (4 km sub-sampled SeaWiFS product)
GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
GOCI Geostationary Ocean Color Imager
GOOS Global Ocean Observing System
GSC GMES Space Component
GSC CQC GMES Space Component Coordinated Quality Control
GSM Garver, Siegel, Maritorena
Hermes Data portal for Ocean Colour Data Users http://hermes.acri.fr
IOCCG International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group
IOCCP International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project
IODD Input Output Data Definition
IOPs Inherent Optical Properties
LOV Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-mer
LUT Look-Up Table
MERMAID MERIS Match-up In-situ Database
MERIS Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
MOBY Marine Optical Buoy
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
MVT MERIS Validation Team
N/A Not Applicable
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
netCDF Network Common Data Format
NIR Near Infrared
NOMAD NASA Bio-Optical Marine Algorithm Data Set
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRT Near-Real Time
OCL Open Control Loop
OCR Ocean Colour Radiance
OCTS Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner
ODESA Optical Data Processor of the European Space Agency
OLCI Ocean and Land Colour Imager
PDF Adobe Portable Document Format
POC Particulate Organic Carbon
POLDER Polarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectances
PP Primary Production
QWG Quality Working Group
RMS Root Mean square
RT Radiative Transfer
S-3 Sentinel-3
SeaBASS SeaWiFS Bio-Optical Archive and Storage System
SeaDAS SeaWiFS Data Analysis System
SeaWiFS Sea-Viewing Wide Field of View Sensor
SIMBIOS Sensor Intercomparison for Marine Biological and Interdisciplinary Ocean Studies
SLSTR Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer
SPM Suspended Particulate Matter
TOA Top Of Atmosphere


 
 
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MERIS demonstration level 3
MERIS marine L3 QC
MERMAID in-situ database
Access to Ocean Colour data