Field Activity 1987-006-FA

Identifier 1987-006-FA
Alternate names S1-87
Purpose Collection of gravity and bathymetry data in and around the Cape Verde Islands as specified by DMA requirements.
Location Cape Verde Islands, Africa, North Atlantic;
Comments For gravity data, contact Michael A. Prugger, Office of GEOINT Sciences, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA); Michael.A.Prugger@nga.mil; 314-676-0863. Original Center People field contained: Barry Irwin (Ch. Sci.); Carol Parmenter; Robin Bouse; Chuck Gilbert. Project = Defense Mapping Agency Gravity, Defense Mapping Agency Gravity
Platform
Starella
Length: 73 meters; Beam: 11 meters.
Itinerary
Start Mindelo, Cape Verde 1987-02-22
End Mindelo, Cape Verde 1987-03-21
Days in the field 24
Bounds
West -27
East -22
North 18
South 13

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Barry J Irwin
Crew members
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Parmenter, Carol M.
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
PARTNER,
Specialist, Information
Affiliate staff Robin Bouse; Chuck Gilbert; Robert Bowles (contractor); John Ryland (Racal); Brian Franklin (J. Marr)

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Electro-Magnetic, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Gravity, Single Beam

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, equipment, and tabulated information.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Racal/Decca Hyperfix Navigation (no data reported)
LaCoste-Romberg gravimeter G-179 Gravity 1
Echosounder Single Beam 1
Magnavox System 5000 integrated navigation system Navigation 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1987-006-FA-GP-001 LaCoste-Romberg gravimeter G-179 Digital tape(s) of NV/GRAV ARCHIVE, Nancy K. Soderberg
1987-006-FA-SE-001 Echosounder Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 12K) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1987-006-FA-LN-001 Magnavox System 5000 integrated navigation system Digital tape(s) of NV/GRAV ARCHIVE, Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity