CoastWatch Nodes

Provides remote sensing data products and customized decision-making applications for regions from Maine to Florida. 

Provides environmental data and products for near real-time observation of the Great Lakes to support environmental science, decision making, and supporting research.

Provides data is used in a variety of ways to monitor sea-surface-temperature and algal blooms, study fish and marine mammal distributions, and to aid in atmospheric forecasting.

Acquires and processes satellite information and creates a variety of satellite data products for the Pacific Ocean region

Providing ocean satellite data for the Arctic and Antarctic

The newest addition to the NOAA CoastWatch family, the Water Prediction Node is housed within the Office of Water Prediction of the National Weather Service and located in the National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, AL.  The focus of the Water Node is to facilitate the development and use of satellite data and data products for understanding and forecasting hydrology and water quality of inland waters.

The CoastWatch West Coast Node (WCN) provides rapid dissemination of satellite observation data to governmental, academic, commercial, and public users.