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USGS CMG InfoBank format for Geodetic Data

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File Name /infobank/<letter>/<activityid>/geo/<activity-id>.data_files
Style activity first line style, multi-record, in mixed case, without tabs
Mnemonic
(see example)
Fortran format
(a)
C format
(%-s\n)
Purpose spatial data
Derivative data acquisition systems

Example
         1         2         3         4
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890
    
BR199MB Generated Files
  990111B.RAW                   --- Original data file from the Geodimeter
                                    (linear format of polar coordinate data)
  990111B.JOB                   --- Geotools generated observation file
                                    (similar in format to the RAW file)
  990111B.PTS                   --- Geotools extracted listing of field
                                    observed UTM coordinates (from RAW file)
  990111B.ED                    --- PFCODE.EXE generated file (tabular format
                                    of polar coordinate data, from JOB file)
      

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