Bands of Sargassum in the Gulf of Mexico

Data provided by the European Space Agency (ESA). Image provided by the Institute of Ocean Sciences (IOS), Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Image funding by the Canadian Space Agency. The scientific reference is to Jim Gower, Chuanmin Hu, Gary Borstad and Stephanie King, 2006, "Ocean color satellites show extensive lines of floating Sargassum in the Gulf of Mexico," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44, 3619-3625

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