Remotely-sensed from space, sea surface temperature (SST), ocean color (OC), sun-glitter and surface roughness images often unveil very rich two-dimensional expressions of surface signatures at spatial scales ranging from 1 and 50 km. These signatures include characteristics of upper ocean dynamics associated with meandering frontal zones, jets, eddies, filaments and internal waves. For instance, very well delineated sea surface temperature frontal patterns coincide with very localized intense sea surface roughness variations and patchiness in algae distributions associated with upper layer divergence/convergence areas. Satellite sensor synergetic approach opens up a way to better quantify and map the upper ocean flow characteristics associated with mesoscale and sub-mesoscale dynamics. The challenge is to transform these abundant signatures into consistent oceanographic quantities and processes. In ACUSAT this will be exploited in combination with use of advanced in-situ observations and numerical ocean models.