- "Scattered" information (as used here) is data at a single location.
- "Swath" information (as used here) is composed of multiple, simultaneous observations relative to a single location.
- Scattered information may come from a variety of sources: single observations, observations along tracklines, extractions for gridded data sets, etc.
- The location is commonly a latitude, longitude pair.
- UTM x/y coordinates are sometimes used.
- The information at the location may be one or many values.
- Commonly a "time stamp" (the time the observation was made) is one of the values.
- Scattered information occurs in the InfoBank as:
- time series -- <Activity_ID>.### files containing time sequential information.
- swath -- files containing swath bathymetric information.
- InfoBank navigation file names:
- <Activity_ID>.0## -- Navigation information
- <Activity_ID>.1## -- Gravity information
- <Activity_ID>.2## -- Magnetics information
- <Activity_ID>.3## -- Bathymetry information
- <Activity_ID>.4## -- Seismic information
- <Activity_ID>.6## -- Range Navigation information
- fullres.dat -- Swath bathymetry information
- A "time" key is associated with each record for correlation with other scattered information data sets.
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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
