AGENCY CMA (China) CMA (China) CMA (China) SATELLITE FY-3A FY-3B FY-3C LAUNCH DATE 27/05/08 5/11/10 23/09/13 SWATH (km) 2900 2900 2900 RESOLUTION (m) 250/1000 250/1000 250/1000 # OF BANDS 20 20 20 SPECTRAL COVERAGE(nm) 402-2155 402-2155 402-2155

Access to Data from the Chinese FY Satellites

• FENGYUN Satellite Data Center - Data from FY-3A, FY-3B and FY-3C

• Chinese ocean colour missions, Zhihua Mao, IOCCG-20 meeting, Paris, France (2015).
• Update on Chinese ocean colour satellite missions, IOCCG-17 Meeting, Denpasar, Indonesia (2012).
• FY-3 Program
• Development of ocean color remote sensing in China , IOCCG-8 meeting, Florence, Italy (2002).

• Shen, F., Zhou, Y., Peng, X., Chen, Y. (2014). Satellite multisensor mapping of suspended particulate matter in turbid estuarine and coastal ocean, China. Int. J. Remote Sens., 35(11-12): 4173 - 4192. DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.916053
• Kim, W., Cao, Liang, S. (2014). Assessment of Radiometric Degradation of FY-3A MERSI Reflective Solar Bands Using TOA Reflectance of Pseudoinvariant Calibration Sites, Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett., IEEE, 11(4), 793 - 797.
• Sun, J., M. Wang, L. Tan, and L. Jiang (2014). An efficient approach for VIIRS RDR to SDR data processing. IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett ., 11, 2037-2041. doi:10.1109/LGRS.2014.2317553
• Sun, L., Guo, M., Zhu, J., Hu, X., Song, Q. (2013). FY-3A/MERSI, ocean color algorithm, products and demonstrative applications. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 32(5): 75-81.
• Sun, L., Hu, X., Guo, M., Zhu, J., Li, S., Lei, D. (2012). An Introduction to FY-3/MERSI, Ocean Colour Algorithm, Product and Application. Prof. Marco Marcelli (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0301-1, InTech.

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