John W. Sherman, III 



Spacecraft Oceanography Project 



Naval Oceanographic Office (Code 700?) 



The Spacecraft Oceanography (SPOC) Project plans and recommends to 

 NASA a program in remote sensing oceanography and coordinates air and 

 spacecraft experiments for oceanographic users in the NASA Earth Resources 

 Survey (ERS) Program. 



The critical areas of sensor application that are important to oceano- 

 graphy are: (l) ocean color and (2) microwave exploration. In the area 

 of ocean color, what needs to be experimentally accomplished must be docu- 

 mented by meetings such as this and the appropriate aircraft remote sensors 

 obtained. A critique is invited of instrumentation for space and aircraft 

 sensors related to color measurements. In the ERS Program, for example, 

 the Department of Agriculture is a clear "user" group, but there are 

 13-17 government agencies involved in oceanography, with no one, single 

 user. The SPOC Project attempts to act as the technical focal point for 

 NASA in the ERS Program. Thus, the requested instrumentation critique 

 is in reality an attempt to insure that oceanographic user requirements 

 are met. 



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