Big Things Come in Very Small Packages Sea Hawk A New Way of Looking at the Ocean

Brief Description: This webinar provides an introduction to the SeaHawk, HawkEye CubeSat ocean color mission, demonstrates how to discover, access, and work with SeaHawk data, and walks through the process of requesting image scheduling for regions of interest. Detailed Description: The goal of the SeaHawk mission was to prove a conceptthat it is possible to collect scientifically credible ocean color data comparable to that of previous ocean color satellite missions from a 3U (or unit) CubeSat, a small, cubeshaped satellite (also known as a nanosatellite) measuring just 10centimeters x 10centimeters x 30centimeters and the successful receipt of the first image proved it was. Most current ocean observing satellites cost hundreds of millions of dollars and have a spatial resolution of approximately 1kilometer. The SeaHawk CubeSat mission cost less than one million dollars and has a 120meter spatial resolution, revealing details in the patterns of ocean biological processes that can not be seen b