**Preface to "Satellite Derived Global Ocean Product Validation/Evaluation"**

Ocean satellite instruments provide short-term to long-term (hourly to decadal) observations of physical and biogeochemical phenomena and properties in the coastal and global open ocean at high spatial resolution. Ocean-observing satellite sensors have been launched recently by international space agencies such as the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), and operationally measure the various physical, biological, and biogeochemical variables in the ocean.

Validation/evaluation efforts and uncertainty assessments are crucial to providing more accurate satellite-derived ocean products. Validation of the satellite products requires a combination of ground field measurements, instrumented surface sites, inter-satellite comparisons, and research and modeling efforts with robust methodologies. This book—*Validation of Satellite Ocean Products*—presents the validation/evaluation results of the various satellite-derived ocean products including sea surface temperature, sea surface salinity, wave height, altimetry, ocean surface wind, sea ice, ice surface temperature, chlorophyll-a, particulate organic carbon, particulate backscattering, and marine fishery resources in the global and various regional seas, as well as some applications with the ocean products. This book is aimed at various audiences, including graduate students, university professors, junior to senior scientists and decision makers.

> **SeungHyun Son, Trevor Platt, Shubha Sathyendranath** *Editors*
