Users of the data should evaluate the bin quality level and filter the image for their specific application. The map products are global products as well. Bins for the entire globe are present in the data files, including fill values for land bins and bins with missing data. Time averaging varies with product as well. All 36 ocean color parameters and 4 sea surface temperature parameters are available.
Maps are in a cylindrical equidistant map projection.
The Level 3 mapped data is also QC'd. Two of the 15 ocean color QC parameters are latitude and longitude of each bin. Spatial bins have 4.63 km spatial resolution. Both binned files and mean maps are available. Spatial bins have 4.63 km spatial resolution in an integerized sinusoidal equal area grid.