NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 653 
FUTURE PLANS 
During the last half of Fiscal Year 1963 the NODC plans to initiate a pilot program to 
develop techniques and procedures for direct communication between NODC and survey ships so 
that raw observations can be serviced by NODC during the course of survey activities. By use of 
computer programs, NODC could perform the thermometric corrections and further process the data, 
returning the results to the ship's scientists for use in modifying survey plans as may be required for 
the research investigation underway. 
The NODC will continue the functions of WDC-A; it will continue to contribute to major inter- 
national programs such as IIOE and the International Cooperative Investigations of the Tropical 
Atlantic as the opportunities to be of service present themselves. A direct communications link with 
the Canadian Oceanographic Data Center, its east and west coast oceanographic laboratories, and 
an Arctic laboratory is in prospect. 
The NODC expects to obtain, by the end of Fiscal Year 1964, a total picture of the process- 
ing problems related to satellite recorded oceanographic information (radiation and ice data). This 
program will be done in cooperation with NASA and the Weather Bureau. 
By the end of Fiscal Year 1964 the NODC plans to have schemes for processing, holding 
and retrieving some types of marine geological, geophysical and biological data available for 
presentation to the oceanographic community. 
Respectfully submitted, 
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W.C. JACOBS 
Director 
1 July 1962 
Approved by NODC Interagency Advisory Board 
at meeting of 20 July 1962 
