Together with your data contribution, we would like you to provide us with information about your data set. We appreciate if you provide as much meta data below as possible.


Name of data set, could be cruise name or number.

name

GEBCO type identifier code, e.g. multibeam, single beam.

status

Organisation(s) that collected or owns the data.

originator

contact

email

provider

file

Name of the cruise, expedition or survey.

cruise_name

cruise_report

Name of person responsible for data collection.

scientist

date_start

date_end

Harbor where cruise started, including country/state.

harbour_from

Harbor where cruise ended, including country/state.

harbour_to

Platform type that the measurement was taken from, e.g. research vessel.

platform_class

Ship (or other vessle) that acquired the data.

station_name

station_id

instrument

Manufacturer and model of acquisition instrument.

instrument_specified

positioning_type

Positioning system manufacturer and model.

positioning_model

Projection of data set ([EPSG](//epsg.io) code)

horizontal_geod_datum

vertical_datum

Resolution of the contributed data, in units of projection.

horizontal_resolution

Horizontal quality index, based on specified positioning system (e.g. GPS).

qi_horizontal

Vertical quality index, based on sounding instrument (SB, MB, leadline etc.).

qi_vertical

Age quality index, based on age of the data set in years.

qi_age

Purpose quality index, based on the survey objectives (transit, bathymetric survey etc.)

qi_purpose

Short, descriptive text about the survey, instruments used and the data in general.

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