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This paper briefly describes the latest developments which have been made a CMS, Lannion, in the field of sea surface parameter restitution, i.e. the use of an interactive image processing system for sea surface temperature (SST) analysis over the Mediterranean Sea, the combined use of Meteosat and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data for SST field production, the routine production of surface solar irradiance fields and the survey of phytoplankton blooms with visible AVHRR data. This last experiment was made at the request of a group of French oceanographers.The other developmentsare parts of a programme aiming to retrieve small-scale characteristics of the ocean-atmosphere thermodynamics. The next main step of this programme is the extension of the use of an image processor to include an operational survey of the north-east Atlantic.