Numerous new satellites and sensors have arisen during the past decade. The satellite constellation has never been better, providing us with a wide range of view angles with the ocean surface from the coast to the open ocean, at various scales and from physical to biological processes. A good example is the Sentinel 1-2-3 program that covers various sensors such as SAR, optical, infrared or altimeter with a repeat subcycle of only a few days.

OVL-NG and S3View Syntool portals are publicly available portals allowing anyone to visually explore a large amount and variety of EO data, without the difficulty of handling huge and heterogeneous files. For example, users can navigate in time and space to explore the synergy between the different Sentinel sensors (e.g. https://odl.bzh/E6KmFLe1) or compare different sources of current derived from model, in-situ and satellite (e.g. https://odl.bzh/XjKjyCS6).

OVL-NG also offers some drawing and annotation capabilities, as well as the ability to create web links that users can share to communicate about beautiful oceanic structures or use as support for discussing interesting cases with other scientists.

Learn how https://ovl.oceandatalab.com and https://s3view.oceandatalab.com portals can be used to fully exploit the potential of EO data while we demonstrate several examples of synergy between satellite, model and in-situ data!

Discussions and feedback are more than welcome and will drive the future evolution of these tools, so don't hesitate to visit us!