The marine biophysical condition is one of the variables compiled for the ecosystem condition accounts in Ocean Accounts. To support the ocean accounting of Indonesian maine habitat, Fisheries Resource Center of Indonesia (FRCI) in collaboration with Marine Conservation and Biodiversity in the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) have organized a Satellite Image Data Analysis Training for Biophysical Condition/Water Quality. The training, held at Hotel Savero Style Bogor on Thursday, January 19th 2023, was attended by 25 participants from Rekam Nusantara Foundation, Geospatial Information Agency, and MFMA.

Training participants and trainer (Doc: FRCI)

On this occasion, M. Abdul Ghofur from the Marine Geographic Information System Laboratory of IPB University was brought in as a trainer. The material presented in the training is satellite image processing to extract water quality data for parameters such as chlorophyll-a concentration, sea surface temperature, and total suspended solids using ENVI software.