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Abstract:
The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) is now available
as the GEBCO Digital Atlas (GDA) on CD-ROM. It is published by the
British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) on behalf of the
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO and the
International Hydrographic Organization (IHO). It includes a
seamless, global, digital set of the GEBCO basic contours (200m, 500m,
and at 500m intervals thereafter) with contours at intermediate
depths also included in some areas, where available. The CD-ROM is
accompanied by a floppy disk containing the GDA Software Interface and
an extensive Supporting Volume describing the activites of GEBCO and
providing a User Guide to the software.
Contents of the CD-ROM:
Digitized bathymetric contours, coastlines and trackline control
from the GEBCO Fifth Edition published at a scale of 1:10 million
Digitized bathymetric contours and coastlines from the First
Edition of the International Bathymetric Chart of the Mediterranean
published at a scale of 1:1 million
A set of digital global coastlines, based on the US Defense Mapping
Agency's World Vector Shoreline, at a range of scales from 1:43
million to 1:250,000
A trackline inventory of the digital echo-sounding data held at the
IHO Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry as of December 1993
A digital set of geographically referenced feature names including
the IHO/IOC Gazetteer of Geographical Names of Undersea Features and a
specially prepared list of oceanic islands
A digital version of the Third Edition of the Echo-sounding
Correction Tables
The GDA Software Interface:
The GDA Software Interface provides a powerful and user friendly tool
kit which includes facilities for selecting, interrogating,
visualizing, overlaying and exporting data from the GDA. It has a
very low learning overhead enabling the user to zoom into any
geographic area of interest at will. Contours, coastlines and
tracklines can be displayed using a choice of 5 projections, and the names
of undersea features and oceanic islands can be queried interactively.
Screen images can be directed to the user's printer or stored as a
PCX or GEM image for use in desktop publishing software. Selected
contours, coastlines and tracklines can be exported in vector form as
labelled streams of geographic coordinates, either in DXF format or as
a simple flat ASCII file.
To run the digital Atlas you will need:
An IBM PC (or compatible) with a VGA color display, a CD-ROM drive, a
3.5" floppy disk drive, and a hard disk with at least one Megabyte of
free space in which to install and run the software. The software is
designed to run under DOS 3.0 or later, and requires about 500K of free
RAM. A mouse (Microsoft compatible) is highly desirable but not
essential. The contours, coastlines and tracklines (except for the
World Vector Shoreline) are also stored on the CD-ROM in a simple
ASCII file format directly accessible to the user without the need to
use the interface software.
The price of a single copy of the GEBCO Digital Atlas (including
CD-ROM, software interface and supporting volume) is 230 British
Pounds (plus 40.25 British Pounds VAT applicable to orders from the
European Union). A special discount price of 99 British Pounds (plus
17.32 British Pounds VAT if applicable) may be claimed by
organizations whose primary mission is academic research or education
and by organizations routinely supplying their echo-sounding data to
the IHO Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry. Above prices include
postage and packing.
Sensors:
ACOUSTIC SOUNDERS
SOUNDERS
SPATIAL DOMAIN
Bounding Coordinates:
West Bounding Coordinate:-180
East Bounding Coordinate:180
South Bounding Coordinate:-90
North Bounding Coordinate:90
KEYWORDS
Theme Keyword Thesaurus:
GCMD Parameter Keywords
Theme Keywords:
EARTH SCIENCE OCEANS BATHYMETRY WATER DEPTH
BATHYMETRIC CONTOURS
CONTOURS
DIGITAL BATHYMETRIC CONTOURS
DIGITAL COASTLINES
IDN_NODE GSFC/BODC
Place Keyword Thesaurus:
GCMD Location Keywords
Place Keywords:
AFRICA
ANTARCTICA
ARCTIC OCEAN
ASIA
ATLANTIC OCEAN
AUSTRALIA
EQUATORIAL
EUROPE
GLOBAL
INDIAN OCEAN
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
MID-LATITUDE
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC OCEAN
POLAR
SEA FLOOR
SOUTH AMERICA
SOUTHERN OCEAN
DISTRIBUTOR
Contact Organization Primary:BODC British Oceanographic Data Centre
Contact Person:GEBCO (ORDERS)
Address:
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Bidston Observatory
Birkenhead, Merseyside L43 7RA
United Kingdom
Telephone:+44 51-652-3950 FAX
STANDARD ORDER PROCESS:
Digital Form:CD-ROM
METADATA DATE:1995-04-27
METADATA REVIEW DATE:1995-04-12
METADATA CONTACT
Contact Person:VOGEL,RON,L.
Address:
Hughes STX
7701 Greenbelt Road, Suite 400
Greenbelt, MD 20770
USA
Telephone:(301) 441-4206
Electronic Mail Address:INTERNET VOGEL@GCMD.GSFC.NASA.GOV