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Part 1. INTRODUCTION 1 



Willard J. Pier son, Jr. 



Part 2. COOPERATING AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATION 3 



Richard C. Vetter 



Part 3. HISTORY 18 



Wilbur Marks 



Part 4. OPERATIONAL PROCEDURE 26 



Wilbur Marks and F. Claude Ronne 



Part 5. WAVE FORECASTS 31 



U. S. Navy Hydrographic Office 



Part 6. PHOTOGRAMMETRIC EVALUATION OF PROJECT SWOP . . 40 



U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office 



Part 7. PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS, CHOICE OF GRID SPACING, AND 



DISCUSSION OF ALIASING 49 



Willard J. Pierson, Jr., Wilbur Marks, and Joseph Chase 



Part 8. EQUATIONS FOR LEVELING THE DATA, ESTIMATING THE 



SPECTRA, AND CORRECTING THE WAVE POLE RECORDS . 58 



Louis J. Cote and Willard J. Pierson, Jr. 



Part 9. THE LEVELED DATA, THE NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, AND 



THE NUMERICAL RESULTS 82 



Emanuel Mehr and George Stephenson 



PartlO. ANALYSIS OF WAVE POLE DATA 134 



Willard J. Pierson, Jr. 



Part 11. THE STEREO PAIRS, AND THE INTERPRETATION AND 

 ANALYSIS OF THE DIRECTIONAL SPECTRUM IN TERMS 

 OF WAVE THEORY 148 



Willard J. Pierson, Jr. 



Part 12. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 253 



Willard J. Pierson, Jr. 



Appendix: THE DIMENSIONAL STABILITY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC FILMS. 257 

 Simeon Braunstein 



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