Survey Identifier: ELT02
Format Acronym: MGD77
Data Center File Number: 01020002
Parameters Surveyed Code: 55011
File Creation Date (yyyymmdd): 19890705
Source Institution: LAMONT-DOHERTY GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY
Country: UNITED STATES
Platform Name: ELTANIN
Platform Type Code: 1
Platform Type: SHIP
Chief Scientist(s): A.P. CRARY AND JOHN T. CROWELL
Project: CRUISE 02
Funding: NSF
Survey Departure Date (yyyymmdd): 19620316
Port of Departure: NEW YORK, USA
Survey Arrival Date (yyyymmdd): 19620416
Port of Arrival: NEW YORK,USA
Navigation Instrumentation: SEXTANT
Geodetic Datum/Position: DEADRECKONING
Bathymetry Instrumentation: 12KHZ PDR WIDEBEAM ONCE PER SEC SWEEP
Additional Forms of Bathymetric Data: ANALOG RECORDS
Magnetics Instrumentation: L-DGO PROTON PRECESSION
Topmost Latitude of Survey: +60
Bottommost Latitude: +40
Leftmost Longitude: -070
Rightmost Longitude: -046
General Digitizing Rate of Bathymetry: 952
General Sampling Rate of Bathymetry: ONE SECOND
Assumed Sound Velocity: 14630
Bathymetric Datum Code: 00
General Digitizing Rate of Magnetics: 150
General Sampling Rate of Magnetics: 06
Reference Field Code: 03
Reference Field: NIGRF
Method of Applying Residual Field: LINEAR INTERPOLATION BETWEEN NAV. POINTS
Number of Data Records: 1534
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1962 03 16
Latitude: +40.23330
Longitude: -69.36670
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 000850
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 64.0
Magnetics Total Field, 1st Sensor: 496850
Magnetics Residual Field: -12430
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1962 04 16
Latitude: +59.15830
Longitude: -46.30000
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 069100
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 5219.0
Magnetics Total Field, 1st Sensor: 558010
Magnetics Residual Field: +12410