Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches to understanding and predicting ocean dynamics have gained significant traction in recent years thanks to the increased amount, coverage, and quality of satellite observations, improved numerical ocean modeling, the availability of massively parallel computing devices, and the advancement of optimization schemes and deep learning models able to constrain high dimensional and non-linear systems. This session focuses on ocean parameter retrieval, coastal regional monitoring, marine disaster remote sensing, and other applications by data-driven analysis techniques.