Colour and Light in the Ocean from Earth Observation (CLEO)

Promoters: 
European Space Agency, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Place: 
Rome, Italy
Date: 
06/09/2016 - 08/09/2016
Summary: 
The European Space Agency, in the context of the Scientific Exploitation of Operational Missions (SEOM) programme element, and PML are organising a workshop, called Colour and Light in the Ocean from Earth Observation: Relevance and Applications; Products from Space and Perspectives from Models" hosted at ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. The workshop is sponsored through selected SEOM projects, including: • Pools of Carbon in the Ocean (POCO); • Photosynthetically Active Radiation and Primary Production (PPP); • Extreme Case-2 Waters (C2X). Additional partner projects of ESA are: • Marine Photosynthesis Parameters from Space (MAPPS), a Pathfinder STSE (Support to Science Element) project; • Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (OC-CCI) through the CCI (Climate Change Initiative); • Synergistic Exploitation of Hyper-and Multispectral Sentinel-Measurements to Determine Phytoplankton Functional Types (PFT) (SynSenPFT)