介绍了近年来我国在海洋水色遥感应用工程技术方面的新进展，包括以应用为导向的关键技术研究和各类应用示范系统的开发等。针对当前海洋水色遥感业务化应用服务所面临的问题和一些急需解决的关键工程技术进行了分析和展望。

After many years' endeavor of research and application practice, the ocean color remote sensing in China has been growing into a new technique with valuable practicality from the initiate stage of trial research. With the aim of operational service, several kinds of ocean color remote sensing monitoring systems have been developed, and realized the long-term marine environmental monitoring dynamically utilizing the real-time or near real-time satellite data and airborne remote sensing data. In this paper, firstly, four major technical advances are describing, including 1) the radiative transfer principle of the ocean color remote sensing; 2) the atmospheric correction algorithms specialized on China Sea and Chinese ocean color satellites; 3) ocean optical research in China Sea and the study of semi-analysis algorithm of inherent optical properties; 4) local algorithms of oceanic parameters. Secondly, On the foundation of technical advances, ocean color remote sensing takes effect on marine environment monitoring, with four major kinds of application systems, namely, 1) the automatic multi-satellites data receiving, processing and application system; 2) coastal water quality monitoring and fast report system; 3) the shipboard satellite data receiving and processing system; 4) the preliminary system of airborne ocean color remote sensing application system. Finally, according to the application status and requirements, the prospective development of Chinese ocean color remote sensing is brought forward. With Chinese second ocean color satellite (HY-1B) orbiting on April 11, 2007 and the development of airborne ocean color remote sensing system for Chinese Surveillance Planes, great strides will take place in Chinese ocean color information application with the unique function in the field of marine monitoring, resources management and national security, etc.