A research group within the National Environmental Satellite Center is helping to develop applications of environmental satellite data to problems in oceanography and hydrology. Techniques for large-scale mapping of sea surface temperatures in clear and partly cloudy regions are being developed with the aid of high-resolution infrared (HRIR) data from NASA's Nimbus satellites. Digitized television pictures from the ESSA operational satellites and NASA's Applications Technology Satellites (ATS) are being studied in conjunction with the relation between sunglint patterns and the ocean wave spectrum and low-level wind stress. New methods for the mapping of major snow and ice boundaries from satellite altitude have been devised and are being tested. The NESC is also involved cooperatively with several Government agencies and NASA in research and applications development in conjunction with the first Earth Resources Technology Satellites (ERTS). (Author)


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