Coastal & Marine Geology InfoBank

USGS CMG InfoBank format for 1 degree grid cells


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InfoBank Terms:	Activity ID activity overview crew formal metadata lines metadata NGDC port stops project/theme region ship stations time virtual globe year
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Data Formats:	ARC coverage E00 FGDC metadata gridded/image imaging material scattered/swath Shapefile vector/polygon

File Name /infobank/<letter>/<activityid>/meta/<activity-id>.grids

Style integer lat/long style, multi-record, in lower case, without tabs

Mnemonic
(Lat, Long, ActivityID)

Fortran format
(i3,1x,i4,1x,a)

C format
(%3i %4i %s)

Purpose bounding coordinates

Derivative best navigation files

Example

1 1234567890123456

-74 -179 l284an -77 163 l284an 5 95 l284an

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