Well, the clouds moved in with force today, covering our study area just as NASA's MODIS-Aqua flew overhead of the University of Delaware satellite receiving station. Matt Shatley at UD has configured our system to us the Naval Research Lab Automated Processing System. The ORB labs machines convert the output to a netcdf layer and push the MODIS-Aqua data publicly on a THREDDS server for anybody to use. The MODIS-Aqua data lives on the Amazon cloud. Kyle Wilcox of ASA configured the cloud server to handel these large data files and make them freely available. Then, we crunch this data and map it on Google Earth to bring it all together in one place. This is just one tiny thread of the technological tapestry being woven by integrating universities, businesses and governmental entities. Looking back at the blog entries for this experiment, I am amazed at how many organizations make this possible: NOAA, NASA, NMFS, Navy, ASA, Amazon, Google, Garden State Sea Food, local fishermen and universities. I'm sure there are some I have forgotten. If you like working across all of these entities, check out MARACOOS.
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