Technical advances in the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography program

The challenge of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command is to assess and predict the world´s most diverse operating environment and translate its impact on military defense areas - aviation, maritime operations, expeditionary/special operations and undersea/surface/mine operations. The command seeks continual improvement in its core competencies to provide meteorology and oceanography geospatial information -in order to provide safety of navigation and turn environmental information into combat power. In recent years, the Navy has reinvigorated its METOC program through advanced training programs, numeric modeling, state of the art survey ships, airborne lidar surveys, autonomous underwater vehicles and rapidly deployable fleet survey teams. This presentation describes the role of new technologies in Navy Oceanography.