THIS PROPOSAL PROVIDES THE RIGOROUS SCIENCE NEEDED TO APPLY COTS ADVANCES (C-OPS AND CPROPS) WHICH ANY RESEARCHER CAN PURCHASE COUPLED WITH IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOBALLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (THE PROTOCOLS) PLUS STATE-OF-THE-ART DATA PROCESSING FROM PROSIT AND THE MOBILE VERSION CALLED IPROSIT. THE RESULTS WILL BE APPLIED TO END-MEMBER ANALYSES AND SCIENCE QUESTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH BASELINE RESEARCH FOR NEXT GENERATION SENSORS (ACE AND HYSPIRI) WITH FINAL ARCHIVING (SEABASS) FOR COMMUNITY ACCESS. THE PROPOSED ENHANCEMENTS TO THESE CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION COMPONENTS REPRESENT LEVERAGED INVESTMENTS IN RESOURCES NASA HAS ALREADY SUPPORTED. BY FOCUSING ON HIGH TURBIDITY WATER MASSES AS WELL AS LEVERAGING MULTIPLE PAST AND ONGOING OCEAN COLOR PROJECTS IN THE REGIONS TO BE SAMPLED AN OUTSTANDING RETURN ON INVESTMENT IS ANTICIPATED.