IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - MODIS - 01 day - Ocean Colour - SST
The MODIS Sea Surface Temperature product is derived from MODIS bands 31 and 32 according to the algorithm described at https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd/sst/. This is not a GHRSST-quality product, and demanding applications requiring a high standard of accuracy should consider using one of the IMOS GHRSST products in preference. The MODIS SST is nevertheless useful primarily because it is measured at the same time as the water leaving radiances used to derive the optical properties (eg chl). This means it is both contemporaneous, and has a matching cloud mask, so it is valuable for applications that seek to combine both SST and optical properties (ie Net Primary Productivity variants). The data set provided here matches the Chl_oci product in temporal and spatial extent.
This SRS dataset covers waters around Australia.
Production of contemporary MODIS data ceased at 2024/12/26. Users requiring similar Ocean Colour Radiometry data beyond 2024 should consider the VIIRS instruments on the SNPP and NOAA20+ series of satellites, also provided by IMOS.
Data and resources
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SRS - Ocean Colour SST - WMS layerHTML Open
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The GoGoDuck subsets and aggregates gridded data. Data is returned as a NetCDF file.HTML Open
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The ncUrlList is a WFS service that returns a list of URLs matching a query.HTML Open
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IMOS Ocean Colour Data ArchiveHTML Open
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Additional information
| Temporal extent | 2002-07-04 – 2024-12-26 |
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| Date (creation) | 2014-06-02 |
| Status | completed |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | Data, products and services from IMOS are provided "as is" without any warranty as to fitness for a particular purpose. |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-05 |
| Created | 2026-11-05 |
| API | package_show |