AVHRR SST image of Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay and adjacent coastal area.
Currently data from 1992 to 1997 is available at NCAAS



The national Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Coastal Ocean Program established the CoastWatch Northeast Regional Node at the Narragansett, Rhode Island, Laboratory of the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). The node is managed and operated by the Ecosystem Monitoring and Remote Sensing Investigation of the NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center. The Northeast Regional Node was established to make available high quality and timely NOAA satellite remote sensing and other marine data and products for the coastal waters off the northeastern United Sates to governmental managers and decision makers, academic researchers, and educators. Recent technological advances in digital analysis, image display and data communications made it feasible for NOAA to develop a program to make these products available to qualified users in a computer-compatible format and at no charge. Data products for waters off the northeast U.S. which are currently available through the Northeast Regional Node are (1) observations from NOAA Data Buoys and Coastal Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) stations and (2) sea surface temperature (SST) from digital images acquired by the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) onboard the NOAA-11, NOAA-12 and NOAA-14 polar orbiting satellites. Users do not require near real-time data can receive the SSTY maps by mail retrospectively through NOAA data archives (NCAAS).

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