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late 70's, and the US-Australian cooperative studies of the Australian- 

 Antarctic Discordance. In the 1980s, work continued with cooperative 

 studies of the western South Atlantic with the Brazil, and the western 

 North Atlantic with Canada. In the late 80s a multiyear program of the 

 Weddell Sea was conducted in cooperation with the Argentine Naval 

 Hydrographic Service and Antarctic Institute, the Chilean Mineralogical 

 and Geological Service, and Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory (LOGO) 

 of Columbia University. Most recently, the program has supported a 

 cooperative effort between the Chilean Mineralogical and Geological 

 Service and LOGO to study the Chile Ridge and its intersection with the 

 Chile Trench, and a continuing cooperative study of the Argintine platform 

 and western South Atlantic with the Argentine Naval Hydrographic Service 

 and Antarctic Institute. The program has also returned to its roots, with 

 the recent agreement between the Navy and the All-Russian Institute for 

 Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean (VNIIOkeangeologia) of 

 St. Petersburg to begin a combined study to adjust and relevel the Arctic 

 aeromagnetics data collected by both countries over the Amerasian Basin 

 of the Arctic Ocean.. 



SPACE BASED REMOTE SENSING 



NRL scientists design, build, test and calibrate about two to three 

 space-based sensors a year, and launch them through the DoD Space Test 

 Program. Sensor development is funded by ONR and NASA, and several have 

 been part of cooperative programs with NASA and European nations. In 

 particular, the Navy S&T community maintains a program of solar 

 investigations important to solar-terrestrial interactions that affect 

 both DoD and civilian operations (as enunciated in the National Plan for 

 Space Environment Service and Supporting Research) such as 

 communications and navigation. Research results are used directly by both 

 the NOAA Solar Environment Laboratory and the Air Force to improve our 

 national ability to provide early warnings of solar disturbances. 



In summary, the CNR's S&T capabilities in remote sensing from 

 space, from aircraft, and from in water sensors present excellent 

 opportunities for NASA, NSF. NOAA, USGS, EPA, and DOE to leverage a 

 tremendous amount of on-going expertise and experience in the design, 

 development, testing and calibration of remote sensors. 



