Since 2005, the CHAMP project has developed techniques and software for integrating data from observers (coral bleaching, disease, and health), autonomous monitoring stations (meteorology, sea salinity/temperature/depth, light, dissolved gases, ocean currents, particulates, fish populations), satellites (Sea Surface Temperature, winds, light, chlorophyll a), radar (weather, ocean surface currents), and numerical computer models (forecast models, reanalyses).

The CHAMP data integration efforts are part of the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program's CREIOS initiative.

External (satellite, model, and reanalysis) products that are currently integrated for ecological forecasting by the CHAMP ICON project include:

• SST and sub-surface sea temperature

  External (satellite, model, and reanalysis) products that are currently integrated for ecological forecasting by the CHAMP ICON project include:

1. USF - MODIS, AVHRR

   

2. Remote Sensing Systems - MISST (blended microwave-infrared)

   

• Chlorophyll a and ocean color

1. USF - MODIS

   

• Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) and insolation

1. NOAA NESDIS - GOES

   

2. NOAA NCEP reanalyses - North America, Global

• Wind speed

1. NOAA NESDIS Blended Sea Winds - TMI/AMSR-E

2. Remote Sensing Systems - QuickSCAT (historical)

   

3. NOAA NCEP reanalyses

• Rain

1. Remote Sensing Systems - TRMM

2. NOAA NCEP reanalyses

   

• Ocean currents

1. NRL Global HYCOM Ocean Model (1/12°, coastal)

2. U. Miami High-Frequency WERA surface currents

    

• Salinity

1. NRL Global HYCOM Ocean Model

   

• Ocean surface gravity waves (wind waves, swell)

1. NOAA NCEP WaveWatch III