Satellite ocean remote sensing at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) encompasses a broad spectrum of research efforts and technology transfer to operational oceanography. This poster introduces these efforts and directs viewers to companion posters that provide greater detail on the following subjects:

1. Contributions of NOAA OceanWatch to the Developing Global Systems of Environmental Observations and the Integrated Ocean Observation System, by Kent Hughes

2. Alaska SAR Demonstration User Access via the World Wide Web Interactive Processing Environment (WIPE), by William Pichel

3. Centralized Distribution of High-Volume Satellite Data Processed and Staged in a Distributed Environment, by Nathan Parsons

4. Qualitative Assessment of Operational Ocean Remote Sensing Products using GIS, by Michael Soracco

5. The NESDIS/ORA Sea Surface Height Science Team: Transitioning from Research to Operations, by Laury Miller

6. Satellite Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Research at NOAA/NESDIS, by Nicholas Nalli

7. Sea-surface Roughness Research at NOAA/NESDIS, by William Pichel

8. NOAA/NESDIS Ocean Surface Winds Science Team, by Paul Chang

9. Ocean Color Science Team Activities at NESDIS, by Christopher Kinkade, and

10. Sea Ice Operational and Research Activities at NESDIS, by Pablo Clemente-Colon.