In order to effectively generate ocean data products and disseminate them on an operational basis, department is proposing to set up a dedicated Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services(INCOIS) at Hyderabad. Near real-time data products such as Sea Surface Temperature(SST) and Potential Fishing Zone(PFZ) advisories, upwelling zones, maps, eddies, chlorophyll, suspended sediment load etc., and need based ocean information consultancy services to the corporate sector, State and Central Government agencies will be available under one roof.The Marine Data Centres (MDCs) which were set up under DOD's National Ocean Information System (NOIS) programme have been integrated with OIS.

During the year 1997-98, generation and dissemination of SST and PFZ, were continued. Validation campaign of Modular Optical Scanner (MOS) sensor was also carried out and algorithms to retrieve chlorophyll data from the Indian ocean were developed.