GPS DATA, OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS PRODUCING COORDINATE FILES

Acceptance and utilization of LTER data requires that:

the Principal Investigator be sent a notice stating reasons for acquiring any data and a description of the publication intentions.
The Principal Investigator of the data set be sent a copy of the report or manuscript prior to submission and be adequately cited in any resultant publications.
A copy of any resultant publications should be sent to the McMurdo data manager at:
as well as the Principal Investigator. For a list of MCM LTER Principal Investigators.

FILE NAME: The data in this section contains GPS data obtained through repeat stream transect measurements. Optical observations from these files are used to produce coordinate files for ARC plots.

Control Data:

gps95.dat S-042 Taylor Valley stream transect coordinates

projgps.dat

taylrbm.dat Survey measurements (latitude, longitude, height) from 1978-79 & 1993-94

taylrcn.dat

transcn.prn Stream transect values converted to UTM coordinates (ascii file)

transcn.xls Stream transect values converted to UTM coordinates (excel file)

Canada Stream Files: f10117.gre f10117.srf f10117.xls

Green Creek Files: f90119.gre f90119.prn f90119.xls

Priscu Stream Files: ps0120.gre ps0120.xls

Wharton Creek Files: wh12195.gre wh12195.xls

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Diane McKnight
Address:INSTAAR, 1560 30th Street, Campus Box 450, Boulder, CO, 80309-0450
Phone:(303)492-4687
E-Mail:mcknight@snobear.colorado.edu

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KEYWORDS: stream, digital survey, map, latitude, longitude, coordinates, UTM

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VARIABLE	TYPE	UNITS		MISSING VALUE INDICATOR   MINIMUM	MAXIMUM	    PRECISION

Location	String	None		  Required entry	   n/a		  n/a	       n/a
Latitude	String	DD-MM-SS South	  Required entry	   n/a		  n/a	       n/a
Longitude	String	DDD-MM-SS East	  Required entry	   n/a		  n/a	       n/a
Description	String	None			Null		   n/a		  n/a	       n/a

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NOTE: Data contained in these files has been subjected to quality control standards imposed by the investigator. The user of this data should be aware that, while efforts have been taken to ensure that these data are of the highest quality, there is no guarantee of perfection for the data contained herein and the possibility of errors exists. If you encounter questionable data, please contact the MCM LTER data manager (; (303)492-4639) so that the data can be corrected or qualified. Thus, these data may be modified and future data will be appended.