• Presentations and videos from IOCCG training courses

• Monitoring phytoplankton seasonality: Phenology indices and their importance for coral reef biology (ESA lesson using OC-CCI imagery).

• Detecting harmful algal blooms in coastal waters (ESA lesson using MERIS and MODIS-Aqua imagery)

• Observing the Eyjafjallajökull Volcanic Plume (ESA lesson using SEVIRI and MODIS imagery)

• Basics of Visible and Infrared Remote Sensing (Meteosat)

• Fundamentals of Remote Sensing (Natural Resources Canada)

• Optics-Related Marine Data Literacy (MDL) Exercises: Practical demonstration of how you can find, download, manage and visualize various optics-related data products.

• Remote sensing applications training modules and software: UNESCO Bilko Project

• Ocean Optics Web Book: Initial content by Curtis Mobley, Emmanuel Boss and Collin Roesler. This is a web-based, dynamically growing, community resource that addresses both the education and reference needs of the broad optical oceanography and ocean colour remote sensing communities and is freely accessible.

• Giovanni - Interactive Visualization and Analysis. Giovanni is a Web-based application developed by NASA GES DISC that provides a simple and intuitive way to visualize, analyze, and access vast amounts of Earth science remote sensing data without having to download the data. Giovanni is an acronym for the GES-DISC (Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center) Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Infrastructure.

• Is the Sea Really Blue? A BBC Earth article on ocean colour (May 2015).

• NASA Oceanography - The Living Ocean

• Teachable Optics - Absorption, Scattering and the Color of the Ocean by Emmanuel Boss.

• NASA -Kids - What is ocean-colour?

• Resources about remote sensing in the Great Lakes region K - 12 Remote Sensing Links

• Bigelow Laboratory - Remote Sensing and Phytoplankton.

• SeaWiFS web site: Resources for Teachers. Material on oceans, ocean-colour and remote sensing of ocean colour. Great resource.

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