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ICEBOX is a tool to view and analyze satellite images.
There are two components to ICEBOX: an image viewer and an image
analysis tool called ICE, that was developed by NASA’s
Earth Observatory. Using the image viewer, you can select images
of chlorophyll a and/or sea surface temperature to view and then,
if desired, load these images into ICE. Using ICE you can pan and
zoom around the images, probe the data values at any point on an
image, plot a transect of the data, or select a region on the image
and create a histogram or scatter plot of the data.
The Gulf of Maine images available on this site were acquired by
the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) sensor
onboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites. These images are
8-day composites dating from July 2002 to the present. That is,
they are averages of all cloud-free measurements acquired during
a specific 8-day period. You can use ICEBOX to explore oceanographic
phenomena in the Gulf of Maine such as seasonal change or compare
a spring phytoplankton bloom in one year to that of another year.
This tutorial will give you an overview of how to use ICEBOX to
view, explore, and analyze satellite imagery.
Let's Begin...
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