Survey Identifier: YAQ66MAY
Format Acronym: MGD77
Data Center File Number: 07010005
Parameters Surveyed Code: 51511
File Creation Date (yyyymmdd): 19751002
Source Institution: OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
Country: U.S.A.
Platform Name: YAQUINA
Platform Type Code: 1
Platform Type: SHIP
Chief Scientist(s): DR. PETER DEHLINGER
Project: CRUISE MAY 1966
Funding: ONR
Survey Departure Date (yyyymmdd): 19660508
Port of Departure: HONOLULU, HAWAII
Survey Arrival Date (yyyymmdd): 19660527
Port of Arrival: HONOLULU, HAWAII
Navigation Instrumentation: LORAN A AND LORAN C
Geodetic Datum/Position: SMOOTHED LORAN A AND C
Bathymetry Instrumentation: 12 KHZ WIDE BEAM (60 DEG)
Additional Forms of Bathymetric Data: ANALOG RECORDS
Gravity Instrumentation: LACOSTE AND ROMBERG S-9
Additional Forms of Gravity Data: ANALOG RECORDS
Topmost Latitude of Survey: +25
Bottommost Latitude: +21
Leftmost Longitude: -159
Rightmost Longitude: -153
General Digitizing Rate of Bathymetry: 100
Assumed Sound Velocity: 14630
Bathymetric Datum Code: 00
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 SYSTEM
Departure Base Station Gravity: 9789428
Departure Base Station Description: HONOLULU, HAWAII
Number of Data Records: 503
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1966 05 08
Latitude: +21.21200
Longitude: -158.40300
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 001100
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 82.0
Free-Air Anomaly: -1060
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1966 05 27
Latitude: +24.36700
Longitude: -153.11700
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 076500
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 5781.0
Free-Air Anomaly: +2540