Survey Identifier: DME18
Format Acronym: MGD77
Data Center File Number: 29040007
Parameters Surveyed Code: 50500
File Creation Date (yyyymmdd): 19851122
Source Institution: IFZ AN SSSR
Country: U.S.S.R.
Platform Name: DMITRIJ MENDELEEV
Platform Type Code: 1
Platform Type: SHIP
Chief Scientist(s): GRAVITY CHIEF V.A. TULIN
Project: DME1 18
Survey Departure Date (yyyymmdd): 19770106
Port of Departure: VLADIVOSTOK,USSR
Survey Arrival Date (yyyymmdd): 19770409
Port of Arrival: VLADIVOSTOK,USSR
Navigation Instrumentation: LORAN-C/SEXTANT/RADAR
Geodetic Datum/Position: LORAN-C/SEXTANT/RADAR
Bathymetry Instrumentation: SOUNDER
Additional Forms of Bathymetric Data: ANALOG RECORDS
Gravity Instrumentation: 3*AMG
Additional Forms of Gravity Data: IFZ CATALOGUE
Topmost Latitude of Survey: +15
Bottommost Latitude: -27
Leftmost Longitude: +104
Rightmost Longitude: -175
General Digitizing Rate of Bathymetry: 225
General Digitizing Rate of Gravity: 100
General Sampling Rate of Gravity: 00
Theoretical Gravity Formula Code: 2
Theoretical Gravity Formula: INTERNAT. 1930
Reference System Code: 2
Reference System: POTSDAM
Corrections Applied: EOTVOS/LAG/DRIFT
Departure Base Station Description: VLADIVOSTOK USSR
Arrival Base Station Description: VLADIVOSTOK USSR
Additional Documentation: MOSCOW TIME
Number of Data Records: 4450
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1977 01 06
Latitude: -26.74167
Longitude: -179.97000
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 001080
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 81.0
Observed Gravity: 9778276
Free-Air Anomaly: -2914
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1977 04 09
Latitude: +14.62833
Longitude: +179.99500
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 066293
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 4997.0
Observed Gravity: 9791607
Free-Air Anomaly: +1882