A wide variety of Member State activities and platforms provide provide input for GOOS. Example: the US-French TOPEX-POSEIDON programme, where on-site observations are obtained by:

    1. instrument-carrying buoys, localized by satellite,
    2. current meters,
    3. hydrological probes and
    4. subsurface floats

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