Creation of the drifter technology to monitor the ocean and the atmosphere
In the early 70s, XX century, the tools for studying the World Ocean (besides the already existing research vessels equipped with celestial navigation) were expanded with automatic buoys and remote sensing technologies. The investigations resulting in designing the drifting surface and subsurface buoys, and in subsequent development of the methods and instruments for calibration and validation of the remote sensing systems, and numerical modeling are shown. A cycle of researches carried out within the framework of the international drifter-designing activity is represented. The results of the studies substituting innovation development and import replacement - the tasks of particular importance in Russia - are noted.