Operational application service of Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI)

Abstract

The Korea Ocean Satellite Center (KOSC) of the Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST) is main data managing center of Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI), launched in 2010. The distribution of GOCI data was started in April, 2011 after a number of careful tests and practical exercises by KOSC. Since then the KOSC provides radiometric/geometric calibrated Level-1B data and oceanographic factors’ Level 2 data to public users through web site. Furthermore, using FTP system, the KOSC provides regularly the near-real time data to the related organizations such as government agencies and research institutes for their operational public services and researches. As a part of government’s policies, the KOSC encourages people to use the GOCI data more actively and more easily through training courses and on-line practices providing also the results of application on various national issues such as red tides, green tides, brown algal blooms, sea fog, sea ice, coastal upwelling etc…. These efforts are stretched even to the application on land/atmospheric phenomena such as typhoon, forest fire, aerosol, yellow dust etc…. In order to accelerate the on-site practical use of GOCI data, the Consultative Panel on Operational Application of GOCI data was composed inviting key persons from the user agencies and related organizations. Through this panel, a connecting network system among the user gr