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the long term to find ways to make available segregated 

 blocks of data, decimated data or useful products 

 derived from the classified data. One will note that 

 as an outgrowth of the CNO' s Executive Board on 

 Oceanography, Admiral Boorda decided to release 

 previously classified GEOSAT altimetry data which are 

 now being used by academics and NCAA scientists to 

 predict deep ocean topography. 



MEDEA praised the Navy's management of 

 oceanographic data as first rate. Navy's data base 

 management systems are being upgraded to allow for ease 

 of data access and the interrelationship of various 

 data types, all electronically. They have suggested 

 that electronic access to unclassified Navy data and 

 model information using current networking technologies 

 would aid students and researchers with valuable 

 information. Such paths can inspire and allow two-way 

 exchanges of data. While the MEDEA suggestion is 

 technically feasible, it is not funded in a full blown 

 sense. We do have rather new "internet" homepages that 

 allow electronic access to information about some of 



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