NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 665 
MAJOR DATA REQUESTS 
During FY-63, the NODC completed or began work on ten major ($2,500 or more} data 
requests. These were largely from government agencies which included the Bureau of Commercial 
Fisheries (BCF), the Navy Electronics Laboratory (NEL), the Naval Underwater Ordnance Station 
(NUOS), the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), the Naval Air Development Center 
(NADC), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Private institutions and commercial organizations 
that made major use of the NODC’s data and services consisted of the Scripps Institution of 
Oceanography, the Raytheon Corporation, and the Martin-Marietta Corporation. 
The requirements of all the major requestors made each project mutually beneficial to the 
requestor and the NODC. The requestor was able to obtain services and data which might not have 
been available otherwise, and the NODC was able to increase its capability in various phases of data 
handling and analysis. 
Projects summarized below are given by subject rather than individually. 
DATA SELECTION 
The requests from the Raytheon Corporation and the Martin-Marietta Corporation required 
the selection of certain oceanographic station data and special studies of sound velocity. The selec- 
tion for Martin-Marietta was based on areas which are quasi-homogeneous with respect to oceano- 
graphic conditions. The requestor was provided with a listing of stations and special magnetic 
tapes for further computational work on sound velocity analyses. 
For the Raytheon Corporation, selection of data was made by analysis of specific areas with 
characteristic sound velocity structures; they were provided with listings and punch cards of selected 
data. 
DATA SELECTION AND SPECIAL PROCESSING 
At the request of the Naval Air Development Center (NADC), the NODC has begun a selec- 
tion of oceanographic stations suitable for sound velocity studies in particular ocean areas. At the 
end of FY-63, the initial data selection was about 30% complete. After the data selection is 
completed, graphics will be generated by high speed automated plotting equipment. These graphics 
will be analyzed to define and delimit oceanic regions with basically similar sound velocity structures. 
DATA DIGITIZATION 
In November 1962 the NODC began work in answer to a request from the Naval Electronics 
Laboratory (NEL) for all available physical and chemical data for the period 1949 through 1959 in 
specific areas of the Pacific Ocean. Inasmuch as *he requirement was for all data to be in digital 
form, preliminary work was required to develop an adequate ‘‘all-purpose’’ digitization scheme to 
provide BT data on punch cards rather than in the analeg form. 
On the basis of previous studies on digitization by the NODC, it was agreed to record the 
temperatures from the BT trace at constant intervals of 10 feet or 5 meters. The temperatures were 
read from the NODC archive analog prints. At the end of FY-63 8,204 of approximately 40,000 
BT analog prints were coded, digitized, and punch cards and listings delivered. 
Other data forwarded in answer to this request consisted of approximately 290,000 punch 
cards of surface temperature data and about 80,000 cards for approximately 11,000 oceanographic 
stations. 
