Over the next 3 years the Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative project aims to: Develop and validate algorithms to meet the Ocean Colour GCOS ECV requirements for consistent, stable, error -
characterized global satellite data products from multi-sensor data archives; Produce and validate, within an R&D context, the most complete and consistent possible time series of multi-sensor global satellite data products for climate research and
modelling; Optimize the impact of MERIS data on climate data records; Generate complete specifications for an
operational production system; Strengthen inter-disciplinary cooperation between international Earth observation, climate research and
modelling communities, in pursuit of scientific excellence.