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The CoastWatch mission is to provide and ensure timely access to near real-time satellite data to protect, restore, and manage U.S. coastal ocean resources, in addition to understanding climate variability and change to further enhance society's quality of life. Our primary users include Federal, State, and local marine scientists, coastal resource managers, and the general public. There are two components to CoastWatch: Central Operations and Regional Nodes. Central Operations, managed by NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), coordinates the processing, delivery, quality control and storage of data products. The six regional nodes are made up of other NOAA line offices that participate in the CoastWatch Program. They are located around the country, hosting equipment and personnel to provide near real-time data distribution and regional scientific expertise to the local user community. Together, central operations and the regional nodes provide for the distribution pathway for CoastWatch data products. The East Coast Node, located at NOAA's Chesapeake Bay Office in Annapolis, MD, has been set up to provide value-added remote sensing data and products for regions from Maine to Florida. Anyone may access data free of charge. CoastWatch data is used in a variety of ways including forecasting atmospheric events, predicting harmful algal blooms, and studying fish and marine mammal distributions.
CoastWatch satellite data files cover a number of regions spanning the entire east coast. There are three large regions and seven small sub-regions. Data can be displayed using the pre-defined regions with the online data browser. CoastWatch - East Coast Node NOAA's Chesapeake Bay Office 410 Severn Avenue, Suite 107A Annapolis, MD 21403 Directions
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