Military applications:

You will write a two page paper on the military application of some science topic.  The paper will follow the department style manual (no need for an abstract), and will have at least 3 references, one of which will be a good journal (with reference list).  None of the references will be to the web.  This can be part of the topic for your proposed research project next year, or another topic; for those who cannot find anything, I can supply papers.

 Journals.

 Web sites:


Books on Reserve at Nimitz Library  for SO482B   

  1. Environmental Information for Naval Warfare, National Research Council Ocean Studies Board, National Academies Press, 2003. http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10626.html (Free PDF of Exec Summary)
  2. Oceanography and Mine WarfareNational Research Council Ocean Studies Board, National Academies Press, 2000      http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9773.html (Free PDF)

  3. Oceanography and Naval Special Warfare, National Research Council Ocean Studies Board, National Academies Press, 1997 http://books.nap.edu/catalog/5916.html (Free PDF of Executive Summary)

 One copy of each on reserve, but there are one or two additional copies in the stacks.


 Additional books:

 

Broken links: 

·  Scientific Utility of Naval Environmental Data A MEDEA Special Task Force Report June 1995, at http://128.160.23.54/products/PUBS/medea/navy_etf.html (this link is now broken, but there are still references to it such as Navy is shipping its excellent Medea CD-ROM of declassified oceanographic and environmental
data, "Scientific Utility of Naval Environmental Data," June, 1995)

 

Topic

Military relevance

GIS for beach/coastal surveys

Military shift to vector maps with GIS capabilities--you will looking at the utility or use of this kind of data;

or importance of littoral warfare, and you will be looking at ways to provide environmental support in this arena

Ship tracks from satellite imagery

Military use of DMSP satellite--you will look at new uses for a similar satellite

Twilight color

Military use of LOWTRAN model--you will looking to validate or improve one part of this model

 

Search engines: (USNA only)


 References (see Guidelines for the paper, Department style guide):