Block Island Sound
Eastern Long Island Sound
East-Central Long Island Sound
West-Central Long Island Sound
Western Long Island Sound
Cruise Report
Seismic Profiles
Trackline Navigation
Fishers Island Sound and Northeastern Long Island Sound

AST85-8 NAVIGATION

The maps below show the tracklines along which the seismic data (lines 1-40) were collected on leg 8 of the 1985 RV ASTERIAS cruise to western Long Island Sound.

Map illustration: R/V ASTERIAS cruise 85-8 tracklines in Western Long Island Sound. Click on the above
image to open a larger map in a new browser window.  Links to the navigation data are available in the table below.

The navigation files, which are located in the data/nav/85_8nav directory at the top level of this DVD, are provided in two formats:

These files are a compilation of all the navigation collected on the cruise and have the following data fields: cruise id, date, time (EDST), seismic line, and latitude and longitude in decimal degrees. To download the navigation data from the DVD the user has a couple of options. One option is available while viewing any of the data files through the links above. The user may select the Save As option from the pulldown menu from the File option located on the menu bar. When prompted, the user may then enter the directory and filename of where the data file will be stored on disk. A second option is to access the DVD outside of a WWW browser and copy the file from the data/nav directory on the DVD to a desired location.