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Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS)


The Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) operated between 1997 and 2010, far exceeding its initial design of five years.
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[04-Jan-07] The Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) operated between 1997 and 2010, far exceeding its initial design of five years. With the launch of SeaWiFS, NASA began to collect a long-term continuous record of satellite-derived chlorophyll-a data that continues today.