Survey Identifier: 79000212


Format Acronym: MGD77
Data Center File Number: 67010073
Parameters Surveyed Code: 55000
File Creation Date (yyyymmdd): 19911119
Source Institution: IFREMER
Country: FRANCE
Platform Name: JEAN CHARCOT
Platform Type Code: 1
Platform Type: SHIP
Chief Scientist(s): H.D.NEEDHAM
Project: WALVIS 3 - CH86
Funding: IFREMER
Survey Departure Date (yyyymmdd): 19790224
Port of Departure: CAPE TOWN
Survey Arrival Date (yyyymmdd): 19790315
Port of Arrival: CAPE TOWN
Navigation Instrumentation: SAT I.T.T.
Geodetic Datum/Position: DEAD RECKONING BASED ON SAT FIXES
Bathymetry Instrumentation: SEA-BEAM VERTICAL BEAM
Additional Forms of Bathymetric Data: ANALOG RECORDS
Magnetics Instrumentation: PROTON PRECESSION MAG
Additional Forms of Magnetics Data: ANALOG RECORDS
Topmost Latitude of Survey: -24
Bottommost Latitude: -34
Leftmost Longitude: +001
Rightmost Longitude: +019
General Digitizing Rate of Bathymetry: 012
Assumed Sound Velocity: 15000
Bathymetric Datum Code: 00
General Digitizing Rate of Magnetics: 012
Magnetic Sensor Tow Distance: 0200
Sensor Depth: 00100
Additional Documentation: OBSERVED PARAMETERS : POSITION LINEARLY INTERPOLATED IN FUNCTION OF TIME, SYNCHRONIZED PARAMETERS : VALUES INTERPOLATED LINEARLY IN FUNCTION OF TIME, EOTVOS CORRECTION : CAP + SPEED DETERMINED LINEARLY FROM THE NAVIGATION POINTS, DGRF : HARMONIC COEFFICIENTS COMPUTED ONCE (LINEARLY) AT THE DATE OF THE FIRST, OBSERVED DATA FOR EACH CRUISE, ECHO SOUNDING CORRECTION TABLES - 3RD ED. D.J.T. CARTER, NP 139 HYFROGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT - MINISTRY OF DEFENSE - UK 1980
Number of Data Records: 26192

Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1979 02 24
Latitude: -33.88000
Longitude: +1.42821
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 003035
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 229.0
Magnetics Total Field, 1st Sensor: 273480
Magnetics Residual Field: -08390

Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1979 03 15
Latitude: -24.82339
Longitude: +18.32000
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 070684
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 5329.0
Magnetics Total Field, 1st Sensor: 299730
Magnetics Residual Field: +07890