Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor in Antarctic, Arctic, Korea Peninsula at 2007

The SeaWiFS is designed to look at our planet from space to better understand it as a system in both behavior and evolution. The purpose of SeaWiFS is to provide quantitative data on global ocean bio-optical properties to the Earth science community.海洋宽视场传感器（SeaWiFS）旨在从太空观测地球，以便更好地将地球作为一个兼具运行行为与演化历程的完整系统开展研究。 该传感器的研发目标是为地球科学共同体提供全球海洋生物光学特性的定量数据。