All images and data available on this GlobColour site are for research and educational use only Data sources : MODIS (NASA), MERIS (ESA)
Background and acknowledgement
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.
The GlobColour products have undergone an extensive validation based on a validation protocol derived from the SIMBIOS protocol. The GlobColour products have been derived with the GSM model and algorithm, developed by ICESS (Maritorena S. and D.A. Siegel. 2005).
The GlobColour project has largely benefited from NASA contributions, including the availability of the MODIS and SeaWiFS products; the in situ data base of radiometric and phytoplankton pigment data, and other oceanographic and atmospheric data: the SeaWiFS Bio-optical Archive and Storage System - SeaBASS (Werdell and Bailey, 2002).
The PACA region is financially supporting the project in a regional context (RegiColour project).
The research leading to these results is receiving funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement n° 218812 (MyOcean).
