Ocean Color Radiances from MOBY
The following list highlights the various data product types available from NOAA CoastWatch:
The Marine Optical BuoY (MOBY) is a NOAA funded project to provide vicarious calibration of ocean color satellites (SeaWiFS, MODIS, and VIIRS NPP, VIIRS NOAA-20, OLCI Sentinel-3A, SGLI GCOM-C, and more ).
MOBY is an autonomous optical buoy which is moored off the island of Lanai in Hawaii. The system was designed for measuring sunlight incident on and scattered out of the ocean.
These measurements are provided in near real time for the vicarious calibration procedures conducted by ocean color scientists.
- Deployment Information
- Operational at the Lanai site since July 1997.
- Daily data collection.
- Four month deployment.
- Deployment Record: July 1997 to current.
- Gold Directory
- Satellite weighted data; SeaWiFS, MODIS, VIIRS NPP, VIIRS NOAA-20, OLCI Sentinel-3A, SGLI GCOM-C, and more.
- No bad observations.
- MOBY Spectral Data Listing
- All observed raw data.
Filename Font Color indicates data quality:- Good
- Bad
- Questionable
- Bad and Cloudy