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Field Activity Details for field activity BPW71AK

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AKA: none

Other ID: B-PW-71-AK,71WEW

Status: Completed

Organization(s): British Petroleum

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s):

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Jonathan Childs

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun

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End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1971-01-01

End Date: 1971-01-02

Equipment Used: airgunarcer, integratednavigation, airgun

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

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Notes: assumed receiver is airgunarcer
Line names: W-53, 54 Source of processed data loaded to, and copied from, Landmark: loaded from processed data tapes are W-53, 54 Tape data available: processed data tapes for W-53, 54, no field data tapes Reproducible media available: mylar films for W-53, 54 Cartography file available: 75wew.utm6 Note: cartography for lines W-53, 54 included with in the 1975 file

Location:

southwest portion of Prudhoe Bay Field

Boundaries
North: 70.31061 South: 70.24105 West: -148.968 East: -148.87542

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Publications

Portals/Viewers

FAN BPW71AK has data viewable in the GeoMappApp/Virtual Ocean applications. To view this data in these applications go to http://www.geomapapp.org/ and http://www.virtualocean.org/. See the instructions for locating USGS data in these applications. You can also view the imagery created from the SEGY data at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/images.php?cruise=BPW71AK.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
airgunarcer --- Air Gun / Water Gun
seismic (data on FAD)
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Integrated navigation (SINS) data (Provisional best file)
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
NAMSS Air gun data
B-PW-71-AK (National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS) data)
Edited seismic shot point data (Provisional best file)

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