shiptrack

Data Object Ship track

contact PIs:

name	title
Dr Dennis McGillicuddy	Principal Investigator
Dr James R. Ledwell	Principal Investigator

Dataset description

Ship Track XYT data from EDDIES R/V Oceanus cruises.
 
 Methodology: all data were acquired from the shipboard Athena data system and
              taken from the primary GPS receiver's NMEA formatted output.

Acquisition description

Processing description

Field Names List

Parameter	Description	Units
lon	longitude, negative denotes West	decimal degrees
lat	latitude, negative denotes South	decimal degrees
time_ss	start time of measurement (GMT) 24 hour clock including seconds	HHmmss
time	start time of measurement (GMT)	HHmm
date	start date of measurement (GMT)	YYYYMMDD

Platforms List

R/V Oceanus OC404-1	R/V Oceanus OC404-4	R/V Oceanus OC415-1	R/V Oceanus OC415-2	R/V Oceanus OC415-3
R/V Oceanus OC415-4

This document is created from the content of the BCO-DMO metadata database. 2009-11-22 10:14:02

info app: /home/ocb/dbase v.090827 CLC
Data URL: http://ocb.whoi.edu/jg/serv/OCB/EDDIES/OC404_S1/shiptrack.