REMINDER WHEN VIEWING THESE ANALYSES

When looking at these analyses we remind you that deriving them is not as simple as looking at colorized infrared (sea surface temperature) imagery commonly found on the internet from a variety of sources. ROFFS has developed advanced image analysis techniques, particularly when working with water motion and clouds. This allows us to provide useful information more often than others. We do not limit our analyses to simple sea surface temperature contour maps or pretty colorized images.

Often a simple sea surface temperature map or a pretty color enhanced image will only provide a combination of cloud cover, other atmospheric effects (e.g. uneven humidity, fog, haze) and computer artifacts from automated processing of the satellite data. It certainly will not allow you to understand the changes in the short-term history and motion of the ocean currents which are critical when tracking water masses. ROFFS uses infrared, ocean color_chlorophyll, altimeter, radar, current meter, and meteorological data which are integrated in our analyses.

We highlight the significant data and reduce the superfluous information.   In all cases we have seen to date, our analyses   contain more useful information than any single colorized image product. We use numerous images with the most precise and accurate temperature and color resolution, as well as, the most accurate calibration to conduct our analyses.   We re-navigate and re-calibrate each satellite image. Images offered by other sources do not provide such resolution, accuracy or precision.

Single satellite images can not provide the important information about water motion that we provide. Observing water motion from satellite imagery is not trivial.   We have the experience to differentiate between the real ocean features and clouds or other artifacts created by a variety of atmospheric interference. ROFFS provides an interpretation of the satellite data and integrates other oceanographic and meteorological data to provide a comprehensive product which is unequaled. ROFFS receives and uses the infrared (temperature) and visible (water color, chlorophyll + dissolved organic material, and turbidity) data from all functioning NOAA, as well as, NASA (Terra and Aqua) satellites in addition to the other radar, satellite, ship, and buoy (public and private) data.