Design and construction of a satellite data processing system for marine application

Satellite remote sensing is coming to be a useful high tech of fast and large-scale measurement for observation and inspection day by day. With the rapid development of satellite sources, it is necessary to design and construct a steady-going and automatic operational satellite data processing system to meet the requirement of marine operation application. In this paper, the data processing technique for multi satellites, such as FY-1C/D, NOAA12/14/15/16/17 and EOS/MODIS, are discussed, including multi satellite combination processing programming, database, Windows sockets mechanism etc. The system has been constructed and tested in Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, which can automatically provide the remote sensing products for marine application, such as sea surface temperature, chlorophyll, suspended material, diffusing attenuation coefficient of 490 nm, secchi disk depth, vegetation index, optical thickness and so on. The results primary shows that the constructed system is suitable to process multi satellites for marine operational application.