Living PLanet Symposium 2016 - Nice examples

9-13 May 2016 - Prague

2016/05/12 15:04:37 GMT

On the 12th of May, the OVL tool has been presented by Dr. Fabrice Collard during the Living PLanet Symposium.
We have selected several examples where the benefit of the OVL web client is fully exploited.

Internal waves

In this Sentinel2 RGB composite, we can benefit from the high resolution sentinel 2 data to see the propagation of internal waves generated by tides near the south African coast.

Kelvin Wake

High resolution visible sensor in Sentinel 2 shows nice Kelvin and turbulent wakes behind ship.

Pipeline

Pollution due to a broken pipeline can be seen off the South Africa coast, using Sentinel 2 Ocean Color.

Gulf of Mexico

Here you have an example of different observations during CARTHE experiment where 1100 drifters were launched. Surface velocity Profilers are shown over High Resolution SST from VIIRS and Ocean Color from Sentinel 2.

Dog Head

This picture is a nice example of the synergy of remote sensing observations.
Are represented:

Aviso along track SSH from CRYOSAT 2, SARAL-ALTIKA and JASON 2 POSEIDON
Streamlines derived from Aviso Geostrophic Current
South Africa Regional SST from ODYSSEA product
Trajectories of Surface Velocity Profilers
SAR roughness

By over laying the different products we can see dynamical structures visible in the SAR image are in agreement with the one visible in the SST image. However, the lack of resolution of altimetry data does not unable to capture the dog head structure and thus the corresponding streamlines are not following well frontal structures from SAR and SST.