Survey Identifier: VIT43
Format Acronym: MGD77
Data Center File Number: 29020005
Parameters Surveyed Code: 5 5
File Creation Date (yyyymmdd): 19921223
Source Institution: USSR DATA FROM B.G.I.
Country: USSR
Platform Name: VITYAZ
Platform Type Code: 1
Platform Type: SHIP
Project: INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH,MOSCOW, BGI NO.6532020
Survey Departure Date (yyyymmdd): 19680311
Survey Arrival Date (yyyymmdd): 19680510
Navigation Instrumentation: SOLAR/STELLAR (WITH SEXTANT)
Topmost Latitude of Survey: +42
Bottommost Latitude: -17
Leftmost Longitude: +139
Rightmost Longitude: -151
General Digitizing Rate of Bathymetry: 159
General Digitizing Rate of Gravity: 150
Theoretical Gravity Formula Code: 3
Theoretical Gravity Formula: IAG SYSTEM 1967
Additional Documentation: DATA RECEIVED AT NGDC FROM BUREAU GRAVIMETRIQUE INTERNATIONAL. IT IS UNKNOWN IF THE DEPTH VALUES ARE CORRECTED OR UNCORRECTED FOR SOUND, VELOCITY.
Number of Data Records: 2238
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1968 03 11
Latitude: -16.31670
Longitude: -179.98330
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 485.0
Observed Gravity: 9779910
Free-Air Anomaly: -2770
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1968 05 10
Latitude: +41.67500
Longitude: +179.96670
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 8786.0
Observed Gravity: 9804070
Free-Air Anomaly: +3115