Survey Identifier: PLDS01MV
Format Acronym: MGD77
Data Center File Number: 15020046
Parameters Surveyed Code: 55131
File Creation Date (yyyymmdd): 19791105
Source Institution: SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
Country: USA
Platform Name: R/V MELVILLE
Platform Type Code: 1
Platform Type: SHIP
Chief Scientist(s): LONSDALE P., WEISS R.
Project: PLEIADES LEG 1
Survey Departure Date (yyyymmdd): 19760427
Port of Departure: SAN DIEGO
Survey Arrival Date (yyyymmdd): 19760607
Port of Arrival: BALBOA,C.Z.
Navigation Instrumentation: SATNAV,AUTO LOG GYRO+2D DOPPLER SPD LOG
Geodetic Datum/Position: LINEAR INTERP.BETWEEN ADJACENT FIXES
Bathymetry Instrumentation: 3.5KHZ/GIFFT RECORDER/WIDE 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: +33
Bottommost Latitude: -05
Leftmost Longitude: -118
Rightmost Longitude: -078
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: 11079
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1976 04 29
Latitude: -4.06540
Longitude: -117.15650
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 001092
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 82.0
Magnetics Total Field, 1st Sensor: 309130
Magnetics Residual Field: -08490
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1976 06 07
Latitude: +32.21800
Longitude: -78.76600
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 056770
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 4256.0
Magnetics Total Field, 1st Sensor: 486890
Magnetics Residual Field: +12650