Coastal & Marine Geology InfoBank

USGS CMG "Camera" Definition


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Television, video, and cameras.
Camera information occurs in the CMG InfoBank as:

metadata information about camera-related film, video, photos, inventory of gear, deployment of gear, operation of gear, and observations

InfoBank camera metadata file names:

<Activity-ID>.digitalcamera	digital camera systems metadata
<Activity-ID>.underwatercamera	underwater camera systems metadata
<Activity-ID>.underwatertelevision	underwater television systems metadata

A "time" key is associated with each record for correlation with other information datasets.

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