CMG InfoBank
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"A wise man will not go out of his way for information" --
Thoreau
[So we'll make it easy for you...]
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CMG InfoBank
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"I am only one, But still I am one.
I cannot do everything, But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." --
Edward Everett Hale
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CMG InfoBank General Disclaimer
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"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything" -- Edward J. Phelps
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CMG InfoBank --FAQs
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"Great things are not done by impulse,
but by a series of small things brought together." --
Vincent van Gogh
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CMG InfoBank Programs
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"There are two rules for ultimate success in life.
1.Never tell everything you know."
-- anonymous
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CMG InfoBank Programs
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"The little things are infinitely important" -- Arthur Conan
Doyle
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CMG Field Plans
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"And remember...that many places you would like to see are just off the map
and many things you want to know are just out of sight
or a little beyond your reach.
But someday you'll reach them all,
for what you learn today...
will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow." --
Norton Juster
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CMG Field Data arranged by Project
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"It is not enough to be busy. The question is: what are we
busy about?" -- Thoreau
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CMG Field Data arranged by Year-Month
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"Every day matters." -- Anonymous
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CMG Field Data arranged by Platform
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"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built
for." -- William Shedd
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CMG Field Data arranged by Region
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"Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired out in the
world, and cannot be attained in a closet." -- Lord
Chesterfield
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CMG Field Data arranged by Scientist
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"Each person's work is always a portait of himself." --
Samuel Butler
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CMG Field Data arranged by Equipment
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"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." --
Thomas Alva Edison
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CMG Analog Field Data arranged by Region
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" One day, there will be no borders,
No boundaries, no flags and no countries,
And the only passport will be the Heart."
-- Tamara Robinson
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CMG Research Libraries and Archive Labs
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"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." --
Franklin P. Adams
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CMG Analog Materials by Item Number
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Life is full of choices. Make one.
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CMG Research Libraries
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"...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them
from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time,
but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond
the reach of accident." --
Thomas Jefferson, 1791
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CMG Lab Locations
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"We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean.
But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed." --
Mother Teresa
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CMG InfoBank Format Definitions
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A place for everything and everything in its place.
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CMG InfoBank Data Dictionary
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"We are getting into semantics again.
If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted." --
H. R. Haldeman
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CMG InfoBank Metadata Dictionary
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"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts." --
Herbert Spencer
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CMG InfoBank Scattered/Swath Format Definition
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"As long as I'm faced in the right direction,
it does not matter the size of my steps." --
Erica Lawrence
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CMG InfoBank Gridded/Image Format Definition
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"There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept." --
Ansel Adams
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CMG InfoBank Vector/Polygon Format Definition
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"Run straight ahead, and if anything gets in your way...turn!" --
Brock Hetherington
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CMG InfoBank ARC Coverage Format Definition
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"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something
happened to it along the way."
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CMG InfoBank Information Browsing Definitions
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better
idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots.
So far, the Universe is winning." --
Rich Cook
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CMG InfoBank Activity ID Definition
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"We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released." --
Jean Houston
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CMG InfoBank Activity Overview Definition
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"A rising tide lifts all boats." --
John F. Kennedy
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CMG InfoBank Material Definition
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"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." --
Winnie-the-Pooh
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CMG InfoBank "Bathymetry" Definition
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Before you can walk on water, you've got to know where the
rocks are.
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CMG InfoBank Cameras Definition
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"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality,
and eventually in one's own." -- Susan Sontag
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CMG InfoBank "Crew" Definition
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"Art is I; science is we." -- Claude Bernard
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CMG InfoBank Formal Metadata Definition
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"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts." --
Herbert Spencer
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CMG InfoBank Gravity Definition
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"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." --
Wernher Von Braun
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CMG InfoBank Gravity Definition
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"A little less levity here please." --
Bruce Sherwood
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CMG InfoBank "Lines" Definition
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"Every path serves a purpose." -- Gene Oliver
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CMG InfoBank Magnetics Definition
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"Don't under-estimate the power of the Force."
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CMG InfoBank Metadata Definition
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"What you can't get out of...get into wholeheartedly." --
Mignon McLaughlin
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CMG InfoBank Metering Equipment Definition
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"To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." --
Marilyn vos Savant
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CMG InfoBank "Navigation" Definition
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"We will be known by the tracks we leave behind." -- Dakota
proverb
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CMG InfoBank "Port Stops" Definition
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"A ship in harbor is safe,
but that is not what ships are built for." -- William Shedd
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CMG InfoBank Samples Definition
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"Let your hook be always cast;
in the pool where you least expect it will be a fish." --
Ovid
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CMG InfoBank Seismic Definition
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"Don't find fault, find a remedy." --
Henry Ford
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CMG InfoBank Stations Definition
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"If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." --
Henry Miller.
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CMG InfoBank "Time" Definition
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"There's a time for all things." -- Shakespeare
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"The fundamental particle of confusion is the jargon. If a jargon
and an anti-jargon collide, they annihilate each other, with the
emission of a pair of high-energy grammmar rays. -- author unknown"
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