Satellite Remote Sensing of the Oceans Presented here is an overview of the kind of remote sensing that is done at Southampton University and how Linux has helped improve their productivity.
Earth observation is now a familiar topic to almost everyone.
Many of us are used to seeing satellite images of the Earth every day whether it's in the news, TV documentaries or just the national weather bulletin. More and more Earth observation satellites are being launched all the time. Here at SUDO we deal primarily with observation of the world's oceans, and we use many types of satellite data in studying various surface features. Satellites produce vast amounts of data, and large satellite images can be very difficult to use for this reason. The days when a low-powered PC could churn through a satellite dataset are long gone.