interests of all government agencies and private institutions con- 

 tributing data to the ocean siirvey program. 



In the light of this backgroiind I will discuss survey instru- 

 mentation and its use by 20 or more government agencies. My ex- 

 amples are primarily Navy requirements and Navy applications 

 but the instrumentation involved has been determined applicable to 

 the needs of other members of the ICO. 



The instruments, instrument "suits, " and instrument "sys- 

 tems " of the oceanographic survey agencies must be standard and 

 the data collected must be in standard or compatible fornn to facili- 

 tate the gathering and exchange of data for immediate application. 

 This will insure a contribution to the storehouse of readily available 

 and useful knowledge for scientific and commercial purposes. 



Our handouts emphasize the desire for "suits" and "systems" 

 of instruments which are compatible and which can be developed 

 ajid produced soon. The oceanographic agencies need miaterial 

 improvement in the reliability and accuracy of their instruments 

 and the speed at which oceanographic measurements can be made. 

 For example, it now takes one ship 24 hours to complete what we 

 refer to as an oceanographic station. This means measuring and 

 observing possibly two dozen physical, chemical, and biological 

 characteristics at a specific location at sea. Our objective is to 

 reduce this time to two hours because one survey ship would then 

 be able to cover approxinnately twice the area in the sanne amount 

 of time. We may not be able to achieve our objective of two hours 

 but any reduction in this time will aid the total effort materially. 

 Referring back to the remarks of Dr. Woodrow C. Jacobs, we will 

 gain even more time when the data gathered is compatible with data 

 processing and electronic computing equipment in the NODC. 



I ann sure that this highly selected audience is familiar with 

 Navy's principal problems in instrumentation. Many points were 

 brought out in detail at the NSIA mieeting in May, the Mil- £- Con 

 meeting in June, and several subsequent articles that have appeared 

 in various professional periodicals. Although the Navy has a wide 

 variety of military applications for all known variables of oceanog- 

 raphic data, I ann pvirposely limiting nnyself to the paramount 

 problem of sonar and its reliance upon accurate and comprehen- 

 sive bathymetric and temperature data. 



Unfortvinately the terms -- detect, identify, classify, and 



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