SIRE REMOTE SENSING GROUP

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SIRE REMOTE SENSING GROUP

• Satellite Remote Sensing (ocean color and SST)
• HF Coastal Radars (surface currents)
• Satellite-tracked Lagrangian Drifters and Floats
  (currents, T and S)

Trieste, Italy
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Satellite Remote Sensing
Terascan Receiving Station Operating Since March
2000
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AVHRR data processing
Passdisk (8 passes max)
Acquisition and processing with Terascan
pgs_ingest
Reception
Archival of raw data
Production of SST images
AVHRR data calibrated and navigated for the
Mediterranean Sea (TDF format)
Production of jpg and tif images and posting on
dedicated web page
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SST images Archiving and Web Posting
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Examples of Adriatic SST products
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Spatial structures and temporal variability of
the sea surface temperature in the Northern
Adriatic between September 2002 and June 2003G.
Notarstefano, E. Mauri and P.-M. Poulain
Analysis of sea surface temperature and turbidity
in the Gulf of Trieste (Italy) from satellite
(AVHRR) and in-situ measurements (January 2000
December 2001) A.Vercelli, E. Mauri, P.-M.
Poulain, S. Fonda-Umani and A. Altobelli