Survey Identifier: GECS-KMV
Format Acronym: MGD77
Data Center File Number: 15020043
Parameters Surveyed Code: 55111
File Creation Date (yyyymmdd): 19811013
Source Institution: SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
Country: USA
Platform Name: R/V MELVILLE
Platform Type Code: 1
Platform Type: SHIP
Chief Scientist(s): BROECKER W.
Project: GEOSECS LEG K
Survey Departure Date (yyyymmdd): 19740514
Port of Departure: PAPEETE,TAH.
Survey Arrival Date (yyyymmdd): 19740610
Port of Arrival: SAN DIEGO
Navigation Instrumentation: SATNAV,MANUAL ENTRY GYRO AND SPD CHANGES
Geodetic Datum/Position: LINEAR INTERP.BETWEEN ADJACENT FIXES
Bathymetry Instrumentation: 12KHZ/GIFFT RECORDER/WIDE(60DEG)BEAM
Additional Forms of Bathymetric Data: ANALOGUE RECORDS,PUNCHED CARDS
Magnetics Instrumentation: VARIAN MFD PROTON PRECESSION MOD 4970
Additional Forms of Magnetics Data: ANAL.RECORDS,CARDS
Topmost Latitude of Survey: +32
Bottommost Latitude: -18
Leftmost Longitude: -150
Rightmost Longitude: -118
General Digitizing Rate of Bathymetry: 050
General Sampling Rate of Bathymetry: 1SECONDSWEEP
Assumed Sound Velocity: 14630
Bathymetric Datum Code: 00
Interpolation Scheme: 5 MINUTE INTERVAL
General Digitizing Rate of Magnetics: 050
General Sampling Rate of Magnetics: 06
Reference Field Code: 03
Reference Field: IGRF 1965
Method of Applying Residual Field: LIN. INTERP.POINTS WITHIN ONE DEGREE SQUARE
Number of Data Records: 7676
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1974 05 14
Latitude: -17.44330
Longitude: -149.34500
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 003292
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 252.0
Magnetics Total Field, 1st Sensor: 316200
Magnetics Residual Field: -08670
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1974 06 09
Latitude: +31.10550
Longitude: -118.91930
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 065696
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 4944.0
Magnetics Total Field, 1st Sensor: 456910
Magnetics Residual Field: +05240