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The Coastal Ocean Observation Lab is also known as Marine
Remote Sensing Lab.
The Coastal
Ocean Observation Lab at Rutgers University is part of the Institute
of Marine and Coastal Sciences. The lab was established in October
1992 by Dr. Scott M. Glenn. Funding
for the creation of the Lab came from a grant by the Port Authority
of New York/New Jersey.
Today,
the Remote Sensing Lab has grown from a three person operation to
a full staff of employees, undergraduate
and graduate students. The lab, shown below, is mainly funded by the
Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, the State of
New Jersey and NOAA.
The lab
was originally called the Remote Sensing Lab because its main ocean
monitoring instrument was a Seaspace
satellite receiving system. This system receives real-time data from
NOAA's AVHRR (temperature), SeaWiFS (ocean color) and China'a FY-1C/1D
(color and temperature) satellites. Now, satellite data is only a small
part of our work. We record daily information on surface currents from
our HF-RADAR systems (CODAR),
surface and underwater weather from
our field station in Tuckerton (Little Egg Harbor) NJ, and underwater
weather from our group of autonomous underwater gliders.
All of
this data is regulary placed on our web site in real- time (immediately).
We pride ourselves on real time ocean data delivery, which sets us
apart from so many other research groups.
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