SeaHawk/HawkEye - one month of nominal operations

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SeaHawk/HawkEye - one month of nominal operations

by OB.DAAC - amscott » Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:57 am America/New_York

Greetings,

As we promised last month when our little SeaHawk Cubesat with the HawkEye ocean color instrument onboard entered its routine operations phase, we are pleased to announce that we have opened up to the international research community, the opportunity to request specific targets or regions of interest be acquired by the HawkEye Instrument. As part of our goal of demonstrating the capabilities of this mission to its fullest extent, our team at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington (UNCW) and Skidaway Institute of Oceanography at the University of Georgia, have created a portal by which the research community can submit requests for imagery acquisition. To find out more details about how to do this and to request imagery of your region of interest, please follow this link.

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Since going operational on 21 June 2021, we have collected over 350 new images which brings to more than 1,000, the number of images that we have collected and downlinked. All processed images are available at Level-1 and Level-2 for download on the Ocean Color Web Browser. Below is a composite of all the images collected and successfully processed to date which is also a link to a higher resolution version (21MB). With your help through the opportunity mentioned above, we look forward to filling in the gaps over time.

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Speaking of images, here is a link to an amazing one that was collected yesterday and processed by Alan Holmes of coastal Brazil and the river outflows near Porto Alegre. For those who may have missed the link in our previous message, here are some additional images that have been acquired by HawkEye.

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On behalf of the entire team at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington (UNCW), Skidaway Institute of Oceanography at the University of Georgia, Cloudland Instruments, AAC-Clyde Space, the [urlhttps://www.moore.org/]Moore Foundation[/url] and NASA, we send you our very best regards and look forward to working together with you as we move forward to explore the wonders of our planet with this little satellite.
gene


Gene Carl Feldman
Oceanographer
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
gene.c.feldman@nasa.gov

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