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Launched on August 10, 1992, TOPEX/Poseidon was a joint satellite mission between NASA, the U.S. space agency, and CNES, the French space agency, to map ocean surface topography. The first major oceanographic research vessel to sail into space, TOPEX/Poseidon helped revolutionize oceanography by proving the value of satellite ocean observations.

The satellite operations ended on January 2006.

Jason-1 was launched in 2001 to continue the on-going measurements of sea surface topography.

NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research is the National Oceanographic Institution of the Netherlands. The institute was founded in 1876 and is part of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

NIOZ employs around 220 people and the annual budget is approximately €20 million. The institute is located on theislandofTexelat the border between the North Sea and theWaddenSea, and about 100 km north ofAmsterdam.  In 'FOKUZ' (Fundamental research Coast and Sea), NIOZ cooperates closely with the Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology (CEME) of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the delta area (Yerseke).