Alabama Digitized
Aeromagnetic Projects
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Description of Table
No.: Internal USGS identification number
Name: Internal project name (not always the
name used in publication title)
Flown By: Company or government agency
who flew the original survey
Spacing and Dir.: Primary flight-line
spacing and primary flight-line direction
Altitude: Primary flight altitude in
feet; B = barometric elevation, AG = above ground draped over topography
LnMi.: Approximate total of line miles
flown for this survey
Datum: Indicates if a regional field was
removed and, if it could be determined, the base value removed. Total field
= no regional was removed. Arb. (arbitrary) datum = the base value removed
was not stated on the map.
Publication: Brief publication reference*.
USGS publications are listed as: Open-File reports = xx-yyyy where xx is
the publication year, Bulletins and Professional Papers = B-yyyy or P-yyyy,
Geophysical Maps = GP-yyyy, Miscellaneous Field Studies Maps = MF-yyyy,
Miscellaneous Investigations Maps = I-yyyy, Unpub = unpublished data, refers
to all or part of the original project area.
*For more complete references see: Hill, P.L., 1991, Bibliographies and
location maps of publications on aeromagnetic and aeroradiometric surveys
for the states east of the Mississippi River south of the Ohio and Potomac
rivers, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-0370-D, 67 p.
Further information about aeromagnetic data from
the state of Alabama can be obtained by contacting Pat Hill, (303) 236-1343,
email (pathill@usgs.gov), or Bob
Kucks, (303) 236-1405, email (rkucks@usgs.gov),
or click the button below.
This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity
with U.S. Geological Survey editorial Standards. Use of brand names is
for descriptive purposes and does not constitute endorsement by the U.S.
Geological Survey.
Last modified 9/14/1999.
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