GSM

GSM Product Family

This page contains information on and links to ocean color data products using the Garver-Siegel-Maritorena algorithm.

Data (links to FTP site)

• Seawifs

• MODIS Aqua

• Merged

Metadata

• (validation data and plots TBA)

Software

• GSM Code (IDL)

References

Maritorena, S., and D.A. Siegel, 2005: Consistent merging of satellite ocean color data using a semi-analytical model, Remote Sensing of the Environment, 94, 429-440.pdf

Siegel, D.A., Maritorena, S., Nelson, N.B., Hansell, D.A., Lorenzi-Kayser, M., 2002. Global distribution and dynamics of colored dissolved and detrital organic materials. Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, 3228, doi:10.1029/2001JC000965. pdf

Maritorena, S., D.A. Siegel and A.R. Peterson, 2002: Optimization of a semianalytical ocean color model for global-scale applications. Applied Optics-LP, 41, 2705-2714. pdf

Garver, S.A., and D.A. Siegel, 1997: Inherent optical property inversion of ocean color spectra and its biogeochemical interpretation: I. Time series from the Sargasso Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research., 102, 18,607-18,625. pdf