A set of MATLAB scripts for downloading, extracting, and summarizing various satellite Chl-A data streams for Grays Reef off the coast of Georgia, USA
Scripts:
-DownloadLatestGraysReefChlData.m
Downloads .NC4 and .PNG satellite data from NOAA's East Coast ocean color FTP site ( ftp://ftp.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/ ). The number of days/weeks and other key filenaming parameters are settable in the first half of the script. More info about the satellite data streams is available here: https://eastcoast.coastwatch.noaa.gov/
-ExtractGraysReefChlA.m
Extracts the Chl data for the Grays Reef region (~22 mi^2) from all downloaded NC4 files. Exports to a .csv file with filename, satellite ID, daily or 7day, and various stats of the Chl data (5th, median, and 95th percentiles; mean and stdev; number of invalid points).
Files/Directories
-/ChlData/ (and subdirectories) : local subfolder where files from the download script are saved.
-DataOutput.csv : comma separated file summarizing valid Chl-A data from the downloaded data files
General Info, including various images generated by NOAA
General region of Grays Reef on a demonstrative PNG of the satellite data
Detail of Grays Reef from NOAA
Lat/Lon of Grays Reef including research area
