Overview of Operational Global and Regional Ocean Colour Essential Ocean Variables Within the Copernicus Marine Service
The Ocean Colour Thematic Assembly Centre (OCTAC) of the Copernicus Marine Service delivers state-of-the-art Ocean Colour core products for both global oceans and European seas, derived from multiple satellite missions. Since 2015, the OCTAC has provided global and regional high-level merged products that offer value-added information not directly available from space agencies. This is achieved by integrating observations from various missions, resulting in homogenized, inter-calibrated datasets with broader spatial coverage than single-sensor data streams. OCTAC enhanced continuously the basin-level accuracy of essential ocean variables (EOVs) across the global ocean and European regional seas, including the Atlantic, Arctic, Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black seas. From 2019 onwards, new EOVs have been introduced, focusing on phytoplankton functional groups, community structure, and primary production. This paper provides an overview of the evolution of the OCTAC catalogue from 2015 to date, evaluates the accuracy of global and regional products, and outlines plans for future product development.
Authors
- Martin Böttcher
- Claudia Cesarini
- Dimitry Van der Zande (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2742-0721)
- Rosalia Santoleri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2900-5054)
- María Laura Zoffoli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1892-0051)
- Kerstin Stelzer
- Michela Sammartino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8237-6391)
- Emanuele Böhm (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8143-1651)
- V. Forneris
- Simone Colella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7727-7353)
- Quentin Jutard
- Ben Calton
- Annalisa Di Cicco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9412-4263)
- Luis González Vilas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0854-8284)
- Chiara Lapucci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2090-9097)
- Tamito Kajiyama (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3148-9705)
- Julien Demaria
- Flavio La Padula
- Marine Bretagnon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4429-6961)
- Antoine Mangin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2186-6827)
- Carole Lebreton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0831-6520)
- Gianluca Volpe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3916-5393)
- Quinten Vanhellemont (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9195-6347)
- Vittorio Brando (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2193-5695)
- Davide D’Alimonte (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7217-7057)
- Philippe Bryère
- Shubha Sathyendranath
- Jane Netting
Institutions
- Institute of Natural Sciences (BE)
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory (GB)
- Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IT)
- Institute of Structure of Matter (IT)
- Brockmann Consult (Germany) (DE)
- Fondation Sophia Antipolis (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Remote Sensing
- Published
- 2024-12-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16234588
- Citations
- 9
- Primary Topic
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.33