Distribution Service of Geostationary Ocean Color Imager in KOSC

Abstract

GOCI (Geostationary Ocean Color Imager) is the first ocean color observation satellite, it was launched in June 2010, that is real-time monitoring of the ocean environment around Korean Peninsula (include China, Taiwan, Japan, Russia, etc.) by daily 8 times. So it is best satellite to monitor Northeast Asia ocean environment. The KOSC (Korea Ocean Satellite Center), the primary operational organization for GOCI, was established in KORDI (Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute). Since April 2011, KOSC is distributing GOCI data (02~04 UTC Level 1B RGB Composite Image and GOCI Viewer) for users by KOSC website(http://kosc.kordi.re.kr) in free of charge. Now, August 2011, KOSC has 420 GOCI data and 340 users (Korea and other countries) are registered by website. At Sep. 2011, KOSC will distribute Level 2 product (nLw, CHL, TSS, CDOM, etc.) and other satellites data (NOAA, MODIS) to compare with GOCI data. Also, KOSC will serve GDPS(GOCI Data Processing System) that was developed by KOSC for generation of GOCI Level 2 and Level 3 products.In this paper, we will introduce GOCI operation and service systems, plan of GOCI data service, how to register users and get GOCI data.