Their work is motivated by the premise that if everyone who had a need for ocean observations had his own independent observing system there would be duplication and gaps and there would be no means of integrating the resulting observations.
Su labor parte de la premisa de que si todos los que necesitaran observaciones oceánicas tuvieran sus propios sistemas de observación independientes, se producirían duplicaciones y lagunas y no habría manera de integrar las observaciones resultantes.