Excerpt from Techniques for Infrared Survey of Sea Temperature: Report of a Workshop Held at the U. S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C., April 27 and 28, 1964 This information must be collected systematically and synoptically about several elements of marine environment, and all disciplines have certain needs in common. The data in greatest demand relate to the regimes of temperature and chemical composition of the water, direction, and rate of movements of currents, distribution of sediments, and distribution of species of animals and plants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.