Product Status by Mission

The Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG) produces and distributes a standard suite of ocean color products for all compatible sensors at Level-2 and Level-3, plus sea surface temperature (SST) products from MODIS and VIIRS. The OBPG also produces a suite of provisional products for evaluation. Provisional products have been approved for large-scale production, but they have not yet been accepted as standard products. The descriptions and references for these standard and provisional products are provided below. The product names link to the associated Product and Algorithm Description Document (PADD), which serves to satisfy the Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) requirement as defined by the NASA Earth Observing System Project Science Office.

Click on the L2, L3B, and L3M in each cell to go to the corresponding dataset landing page. The latest reprocessing for the dataset is displayed in the badge beside the sensor name.

Key: Standard Provisional Special No DOI (Not generated for this mission)

Ocean Color Products

Sensor
		CZCS ^R2014	SeaWiFS ^R2022	Aqua MODIS ^R2022	Terra MODIS ^R2022	OCTS ^R2014	SNPP VIIRS ^R2022	NOAA-20 VIIRS ^R2022	GOCI ^R2014	HICO ^R2014	MERIS ^R2022	S3A OLCI ^R2022	S3B OLCI ^R2022
Product
	RrsRemote Sensing Reflectance (Rrs)	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2	L1	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M
	Chlor_aChlorophyll-a	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2	L1	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M
	KdDiffuse attenuation coefficient for downwelling irradiance at 490 nm (Kd)	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2	L1	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M
	POCParticulate Organic Carbon (POC)		L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2	L1	L2 L3B L3M	L2	L2
	PICParticulate Inorganic Carbon (PIC)		L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2	L1	L2 L3B L3M	L2	L2
	PARPhotosynthetically Available Radiation (PAR)		L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2	L1	L2 L3B L3M	L2	L2
	iPARInstantaneous Photosynthetically Available Radiation (iPAR)			L3B L3M	L3B L3M
	nFLHNormalized Fluorescence Line Height (nFLH)			L3B L3M	L3B L3M
	IOPInherent Optical Properties (IOP)		L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2 L3B L3M	L2	L1	L2 L3B L3M	L2	L2
	LANDNDVI Land Reflectance						L3B L3M	L3B L3M
	AVWApparent Visible Wavelength (AVW)		L3B L3M	L3B L3M	L3B L3M		L3B L3M	L3B L3M
	CPHYTOPhytoplankton Carbon Concentration		L3B L3M	L3B L3M	L3B L3M		L3B L3M	L3B L3M

Sea Surface Temperature Products

Sensor
		CZCS	SeaWiFS	Aqua MODIS ^R2019.0	Terra MODIS ^R2019.0	OCTS	Suomi-NPP VIIRS ^R2016.2	NOAA-20 VIIRS	GOCI	HICO	MERIS	S3A	S3B OLCI
Product
	SST11µm Sea Surface Temperature (SST)			L2 L3	L2 L3		L2 L3
	SST44µm Sea Surface Temperature (SST4)			L2 L3	L2 L3
	SST3Sea Surface Temperature - Triple						L2 L3