shiptrack

Data Object Cruise Track

contact PIs:

name	title
Dr Edward Abraham	Principal Investigator
Dr Doug Mackie	Contact

Dataset description

SOIREE Cruise Track
Position data (date, time, lat, lon) from the ship's GPS covering
the entire period of the SOIREE cruise, from wharf to wharf.

Acquisition description

See SOIREE Preliminary Voyage Report
As extracted from the ship's DAS (Data Aquisition System).
May contain glitches where the DAS was not recording.

Processing description

See SOIREE Preliminary Voyage Report
BCO-DMO Processing Notes
Generated from original file shiptrack.txt provided on the
Deep-Sea Research II 48 (2001) accompanying CD-Rom

BCO-DMO Edits
- Parameter names modified to conform to BCO-DMO convention
- date reformatted to YYYYMMDD
- time reformatted to HHMM
- Note: Some times with 59 seconds truncated when fmtted for BCO-DCO

Field Names List

Parameter	Description	Units
date	date	YYYYMMDD
lon	longitude, negative denotes West	decimal degrees
lat	latitude, negative denotes South	decimal degrees
time	time	HHMM

Platforms List

R/V Tangaroa 61TG_3052

This document is created from the content of the BCO-DMO metadata database. 2010-03-16 13:46:22

info app: /home/bco/dbase-v2 v.100108 CLC
Data URL: http://data.bco-dmo.org/jg/serv/BCO/Fe_Synthesis/SOIREE/61TG_3052/shiptrack.