How to Cite

OB.DAAC Data, Imagery & Web Resources

Please provide acknowledgement to NASA Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center (OB.DAAC) for the use of data, imagery, and web resources for educational and informational purposes. Compliance is important for NASA, its missions, our science data product providers and partners.

General Acknowledgement

If OB.DAAC data is used in your work, please include a general statement af acknowlegemenet giving credit to the OBPG/OB.DAAC for data, assistance, and/or review at the end of the published work, prior to the reference list.

Citation Examples

Spacecraft Data Reference

Each dataset is assigned a unique digital object identifier (doi) that can be entered into a citation formatter tool to have a citation automatically generated for you. To manally cite a dataset, Use the reference notation of: Author, Release Date, Dataset Title, Publisher, doi reference, and date accessed.

Example:

NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group. (2018). Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Level-2 Ocean Color Data, version R2018.8, NASA Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: 10.5067/ORBVIEW-2/SEAWIFS/L2/OC/2018. Accessed on 2019/02/29.

Datasets produced by our partner organizations adhere to a differert citation policy.

For Sentinel data (e.g. OLCI), see the Sentinel EULA.
For Envisat data (e.g. MERIS), see the Envisat EULA.

In-situ Data Reference

For SeaBASS or NOMAD data, refer to the SeaBASS Citation Guide.

Webpage Reference

Use the reference notation of: Author (or OBPG). (date of publication or date accessed). Article/Webpage Title. Retrieved from .

Example:

NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group. (2019). Ancillary Data Sources. Retrieved from https:// oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ancillary/

Image Reference

Use the reference notation of: Author (or OBPG). (date of publication). Image Title. Publisher. Retrieved from

Example for publication:

Poulin, Carina (2023). Smoke on Blue Waters: Captured by Aqua MODIS instrument on March 1, 2023 [Satellite Image]. NASA Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center. Retrieved from https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/786/

Example for social media:

Credit: NASA/OB.DAAC.