Satellites & Bleaching
Introduction
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Welcome
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About Coral Reef Watch
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This 2005 NOAA satellite image shows Hurricane Wilma off the coast of Florida.
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NOAA is part of the U.S. Government, housed within the
Department of Commerce. Part of NOAA's responsibility is
to operate environmental satellites that observe terrestrial, atmospheric, and oceanic
conditions on Earth and manage the data that these satellites produce. For instance, most
of the satellite images you see in weather forecasts come from NOAA satellite systems.
NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) is a research
and monitoring program within the National Environmental Satellite,
Data, and Information Service's Center for Satellite
Applications and Research that uses satellite observations to monitor and help protect the
world's coral reef resources.
CRW is only one of the coral reef activities that NOAA undertakes. All of these
activities are coordinated under the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program.
In addition, there are many other U.S. governmental bodies that care for the nation's coral
reefs. All of the state, territory, and national governments with coral reef responsibilities
are coordinated through the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force.
CRW developed this tutorial with financial support from NOAA and from the
Coral Reef Targeted Research (CRTR) Program. The
CRTR Program is a partnership between the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the World Bank, The University of Queensland (Australia),
NOAA, and approximately 40 research institutes and other third parties around the world. This
tutorial began as a series of capacity building workshops funded under the CRTR Program,
presented to coral reef managers at key reef sites around the world.
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