The U. S. Naval Oceanographic Office's Deep Ocean Survey Project

Abstract

The deep ocean survey project of the U. S. Naval Oceanographic Office is a multipurpose survey whose purpose is to obtain information in all strategic areas to support navy requirements, and additionally, to contribute information beneficial to the scientific and economic community. Oceanographic, geophysical, and acoustic data are collected from ships operating both in the North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans. Major portions of the North Atlantic and the Western North Pacific have been surveyed under the two tasks within the project, the marine geophysical survey (MGS) performed by contractors, and the anti- submarine warfare/undersea warfare surveys (ASW/USW) performed by oceanographic office personnel aboard military sea transportation service (MSTS) and character vessels. Reports of the data are published within a year after completion of the surveys and the original data are forwarded to established data repositories after analysis are completed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0860140

Entities

Organizations

  • Naval Oceanographic Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acoustics
  • Contractors
  • Data Acquisition
  • Deep Oceans
  • Detectors
  • Geographic Regions
  • Measurement
  • Navy
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Sea Water
  • Sonar
  • Strategic Areas
  • Surveys
  • Undersea Warfare
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers