The Maurice Lamontagne Institute (MLI) remote sensing laboratory operates NOAA satellite image receiving stations in Mont-Joli (Quebec), Resolute Bay (Nunavut) and Sidney (British Columbia). Images from Fairbanks (Alaska), Wallops Island (Virginia), Monterrey (California) and Sioux Falls (South Dakota) are also acquired from the NOAA CLASS archives. These data are processed to calculate sea surface temperatures (SST) and are used within oceanographic research projects and for ecosystem monitoring. These images allow the monitoring of the evolution of diverse physical processes and their coupling to biological processes.