NASA Earthdata webinar of 2022, “Big Things Come in Very Small Packages: SeaHawk – A New Way of Looking at the Ocean” to be held on Wednesday, January 26, 2022, at 2:00 PM ET (UTC/GMT-5).
Webinar POC: Jennifer Brennan, Host, NASA EOSDIS Communications Lead, Jennifer.L.Brennan@nasa.gov
Brief Description: During this webinar we will provide an introduction to the SeaHawk/HawkEye CubeSat ocean color mission, show you how to discover, access, and work with SeaHawk data, and walk through the process of requesting image scheduling for regions of interest.
Detailed Description: The goal of the SeaHawk mission was to prove a concept—that it is possible to collect scientifically credible ocean color data comparable to that of previous ocean color satellite missions from a 3U (or unit) CubeSat, a small, cube-shaped satellite (also known as a nanosatellite) measuring just 10-centimeters x 10-centimeters x 30-centimeters — and the successful receipt of the first image proved it was. Most current ocean observing satellites cost hundreds of millions of dollars and have a spatial resolution of approximately 1-kilometer. The SeaHawk CubeSat mission cost less than one million dollars and has a 120-meter spatial resolution, revealing details in the patterns of ocean biological processes that cannot be seen by the larger ocean color satellite missions.
The SeaHawk mission is a unique public, private and federal partnership between the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Cloudland Instruments, AAC Clyde Space, and Spaceflight Inc. Funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and NASA/Goddard’s Ocean Color Group Under a Space Act Agreement between UNCW and NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. This webinar will provide an introduction to the SeaHawk mission, show you how to discover, access, and work with SeaHawk ocean color data, and walk participants through the process of requesting image scheduling for regions of interest.
For more information or to register: https://go.nasa.gov/3I4qud9
Speaker: Sean Bailey, Manager, NASA Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center (OB.DAAC)
Sean Bailey received a Bachelor of Science degree in marine science and biology (dual major) from the University of Miami in 1992 and a Master of Science degree (biological oceanography) from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1997. He joined NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in 1997 as a contractor working for what is now the Ocean Biology Processing Group. His research interests are focused on bio-optical remote sensing of the oceans, specifically with the on-orbit calibration of satellite-based sensors and the validation of their data products. In 2015, he became a civil servant with NASA and currently serves as the manager for the OB.DAAC.