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USGS CMG InfoBank format for Navigation Log


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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>.navigation_log

Style free text style, multi-record, in mixed case, with tabs

Mnemonic
(Day, Hour, Min, Sec, LatDeg, LatMin, LatSec, LongDeg, LongMin, LongSec, Comment)

Fortran format
(i,t,i,t,i,t,i,t,f,t,f,t,f,t,f,t,f,t,f,t,a)

C format
(%f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %s)

Purpose entity and attribute information

Derivative FACS Navigation Logbook

Comment Each record is required to have 10, and only 10 tabs

Example

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890

239 17 59 12 35.5 -127.09016 239 18 00 14 35 30.5 -127 14.5 239 18 01 18 35 30 30 -127 15 30 GPS DOWN

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