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MODIS derived Sea Surface Temperature (SST) datasets

The datasets measure the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) of Australian oceans. They are derived products from MODIS (aqua) images using NASA's SeaDAS image processing software. The extent of the datasets covers the entire Australian EEZ and surrounding waters (including the southern ocean). The spatial resolution of the datasets is 0.01 dd. The datasets contain 126 monthly SST layers between 2002 and 2012.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2013-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/77009

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Geoscience Australia

Canberra
Author

Huang, Z.

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Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

EGD

Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Topic category
  • Oceans

Extent

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Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Keywords
  • Marine Data

Theme
  • remote sensing

Theme
  • NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub

Theme
  • marine

Theme
  • NERP

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
  • Marine Geoscience

Keywords
  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
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Download the January 2009 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the February 2009 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the April 2009 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the May 2009 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the June 2009 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the July 2009 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the August 2009 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the September 2009 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the October 2009 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the November 2009 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the December 2009 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the January 2010 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the February 2010 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the March 2010 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the April 2010 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the May 2010 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the June 2010 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the July 2010 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the August 2010 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the September 2010 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the October 2010 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the November 2010 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the December 2010 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the January 2011 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the February 2011 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the March 2011 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the April 2011 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the May 2011 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the June 2011 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the July 2011 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the August 2011 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the September 2011 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the October 2011 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the November 2011 data (ArcGIS-grid)

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Download the December 2011 data (ArcGIS-grid)

Resource lineage

Statement

The SST datasets are derived products of MODIS (Aqua) images. SeaDAS (version 6.1) was used to process the MODIS data from raw to L3 products. SeaDAS provides two SST products. The products presented here are sea surface temperature measured using the 11 and 12 micron channels. The algorithm used is the standard algorithm (OBPG) (Franz, 2006). The sequences of processing included:

1. raw - L1A,

2. L1A - L1B,

3. L1B - L2,

4. L2 - L3 (spatial) binning, and

5. L3 binning to L3 time-binning.

The first four steps were applied to all individual (daily) raw images. After completing the above steps for one-month-worth images (around 300 images), in the fifth step, four weekly images were generated:

1. week1: from the 1st to the 7th of the month;

2. week2: from the 8th to the 14th of the month;

3. week3: from the 15th to the 21st of the month;

4. week4: from the 22nd to the last day of the month.

The four weekly images were exported as HDF files, then imported into ArcGIS and converted into ArcInfo grids. Next, the four grids were mosaiced into a monthly image using the averaging method.

The above processes were repeated to generate the final 36 monthly datasets between 2009 and 2011.

Franz, B. 2006. Implementation of SST Processing within the OBPG, http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/DOCS/modis_sst/ (accessed: 10/10/2011).

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Description

NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/e3dd1af5-7b04-50fd-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/77009

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/e3dd1af5-7b04-50fd-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-22T08:35:54
Date info (Creation)
2013-08-14T00:00:00

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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Keywords

NERP NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub marine remote sensing

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