DocumentCode
3302935
Title
Processing and management of underway marine geophysical data at Scripps
Author
Smith, Stuart M. ; Charters, James S. ; Moore, J. Michael
Author_Institution
Scripps Instn. of Oceanogr., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
fYear
1988
fDate
31 Oct-2 Nov 1988
Firstpage
385
Abstract
Underway marine geophysical data (navigation, depth, Sea Beam, magnetics and gravity) collected on Scripps cruises are processed and displayed at sea or on shore on Vax computers under the Unix BSD 4.3 operating system. An online master abstracts file allows users to search a database containing more than 1300 cruise legs from Scripps and other sources by geographic region or data type. A description is given of data management under Unix, single-cruise-leg processing, multicruise data management, Sea Beam data processing and archiving, and plotting displays
Keywords
geophysical techniques; geophysics computing; information retrieval systems; Scripps; USA; Unix BSD 4.3 operating system; Vax computers; archiving; data management; data processing; database; geographic region; information system; online master abstracts file; plotting displays; underway marine geophysical data; Abstracts; Computer displays; Data processing; Databases; Geophysics computing; Gravity; Leg; Magnetics; Navigation; Operating systems;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
OCEANS '88. A Partnership of Marine Interests. Proceedings
Conference_Location
Baltimore, MD
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/OCEANS.1988.23532
Filename
23532
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