KORUS-OC Expedition Ocean Color Data

The KORUS-OC expedition was a venture among scientists from the Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST), NASA, and other institutions to study daily changes in the seas surrounding South Korea. It is a cross-platform dataset available in BIN and ISO file formats.

Use Cases

• Analyzing daily changes in ocean color for phytoplankton monitoring.
• Studying spatial patterns of ocean temperature and salinity.
• Calibrating satellite ocean color sensors using in-situ measurements.
• Investigating the relationship between ocean optics and chemistry.

Strengths

• Dataset is hosted across multiple platforms, indicating recognized importance.
• Data is associated with a major international collaboration between KIOST and NASA.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, column names, and dataset size are unknown across all sources.
• There is a conflict in license information: one source specifies 'other-license-specified' while another lists 'None'.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

International oceanographic expedition involving in-situ measurements.

Freshness

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Geography

Seas surrounding South Korea