One of the great challenges of marine sciences has always been to integrate the information collected over many decades by the oceanographic community into a global picture of life and water movement in the world ocean. The advent of satellites has assisted us greatly: we are now presented with quasi-synoptic global views of our planet on a daily basis. Developments in computer technology were essential to this change, since without them today’s satellites could neither fly nor transmit oceanographic information.

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