MGDS Vocabulary Terms: file_format_id

<table border=1><tr><td><strong>id</strong></td><td><strong>description</strong></td><tr><td>ASCII</td><td>Text file format. Should contain a header describing contents of the file, including units.</td></tr>
<tr><td>ASCII:ESRI</td><td>ESRI ASCII grid format. The first six lines indicate georeferencing information for the grid, followed by the values listed in the order they would naturally appear (left-right, top-down).</td></tr>
<tr><td>ASCII:GMRT</td><td>Bill Haxby format ASCII &quot;files&quot; file used for GMRT ingestion</td></tr>
<tr><td>ASCII:GXF</td><td>Grid eXchange File - an ASCII grid format developed by GeoSoft and commonly used for gravity/magnetics studies </td></tr>
<tr><td>ASCII:MBSystemSVP</td><td>MBSystem standard sound velocity profile text file format.</td></tr>
<tr><td>ASCII:PPI</td><td>An ASCII format developed by the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF) at WHOI for providing submersible navigation data. Columns are date, time, latitude(dec.degrees), longitude(dec.degrees), depth(m), heading (dec.degrees), pitch (dec.degrees), roll(dec.degrees), altitude(m). This format is ready for integration into sonar processing software and Sealog eventlogging software.
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<tr><td>ASCII:PPL</td><td>An ASCII format developed by the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF) at WHOI for providing submersible navigation data. Columns are formatID, date, time, vehicleID, latitude(dec.degrees), longitude(dec.degrees), depth(m), heading (dec.degrees), pitch (dec.degrees), roll(dec.degrees), 1.00. This format is ready for integration into MBSystem or other sonar processing software.</td></tr>
<tr><td>ASCII:RAYINVR</td><td>ASCII seismic modelling format used in the 2-D ray tracing, travel-time inversion, amplitude calculation and synthetics package called Rayinvr</td></tr>
<tr><td>ASCII:SCC</td><td>An ASCII format developed by the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF) at WHOI for providing 1Hz submersible navigation data. Columns are variable depending on which data are multiplexed into the file, but files contain a header line.</td></tr>
<tr><td>ASCII:SourceInfo</td><td>LDEO Langseth source shot number, volume, pressure data, First appeared with cruise MGL2104.</td></tr>
<tr><td>ASCII:TSN</td><td>LDEO Shotpoint Nav ASCII format</td></tr>
<tr><td>BAG</td><td>Bathymetric Attributed Grid (BAG) is a file format designed to store and exchange bathymetric data.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Binary</td><td>A file formatted using the binary numeral system, or base-2 number system, representing using two symbols, usually 0 and 1. Must be accompanied by a full description of the file format.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Binary:GMRT</td><td>Bill Haxby format binary grd1 files used for GMRT ingestion. </td></tr>
<tr><td>BMP</td><td>Image file format, stands for BitMap</td></tr>
<tr><td>CARIS</td><td>Caris HIPS-formatted file</td></tr>
<tr><td>CNV</td><td>Seabird binary vendor format.</td></tr>
<tr><td>CSS3.0</td><td>NNSA Core Table Database Schema CSS 3.0</td></tr>
<tr><td>DIPOLE1D</td><td>Format for controlled-source electromagnetic and magnetotelluric data</td></tr>
<tr><td>DOC</td><td>Microsoft Word Document</td></tr>
<tr><td>DTF</td><td>HOBO Temperature Probe binary vendor format</td></tr>
<tr><td>EDF</td><td>Sippican MK21 Export Data File</td></tr>
<tr><td>Fledermaus:Scene</td><td>Fledermaus Scene visualization format. Files can be viewed with a free viewer available at http://www.ivs3d.com.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Fledermaus:SD</td><td>Fledermaus 3D visualization file format. Files can be viewed with a free viewer available at http://www.ivs3d.com.</td></tr>
<tr><td>GDB</td><td>ESRI GeoDataBase</td></tr>
<tr><td>GEOJPEG</td><td>A georeferenced JPEG image</td></tr>
<tr><td>GEOPNG</td><td>A georeferenced PNG file</td></tr>
<tr><td>GEOTIFF</td><td>A TIFF based interchange format for georeferenced raster imagery. </td></tr>
<tr><td>GIF</td><td>Image file format stands for Graphics Interchange Format</td></tr>
<tr><td>HDF5</td><td>Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), version 5</td></tr>
<tr><td>HMRG</td><td>Hawaii in-house BS (bathymetry/sidescan) binary file format developed over recent decades to handle data sets from the DSL-120, IMI30, MR1 and similar HMRG platforms.</td></tr>
<tr><td>HTML</td><td>Webpage - Hypertext Transfer Protocol.</td></tr>
<tr><td>JGOFS</td><td>An ASCII file format designed by the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study to store underway hydrographic, weather and ship state information.</td></tr>
<tr><td>JPEG</td><td>An image file format, best suited for photographs, that can contain 16.7 million colors (24-bit color information), and cannot use transparency.</td></tr>
<tr><td>JSF</td><td>EdgeTech raw sidescan, also MBSystem format 132.</td></tr>
<tr><td>KEB</td><td>Knudsen binary format.</td></tr>
<tr><td>KMZ</td><td>Google Earth ASCII file format (kmz or kml) written in Keyhole Markup Language</td></tr>
<tr><td>MATLAB</td><td>Binary MATLAB vendor format. </td></tr>
<tr><td>MBSystem</td><td>Multibeam data formats from various manufacturers that can be read with the open source MBSystem package</td></tr>
<tr><td>MGD77</td><td>Marine Geophysical Data Exchange Format developed in 1977 - an ASCII file format for marine geophysical data (bathymetry, magnetics, and gravity).</td></tr>
<tr><td>MGDS:Nav</td><td>ASCII navigation file format that includes date/time, longitude and latitude.</td></tr>
<tr><td>MOV</td><td>Quicktime Movie</td></tr>
<tr><td>MP4</td></tr>
<tr><td>NetCDF</td><td>Network Common Data Form</td></tr>
<tr><td>NetCDF:Grid</td><td>A gridded NetCDF data format. Use for a .grd file generated from GMT or MB-System.</td></tr>
<tr><td>NonLinLoc</td><td>Standard format for seismic velocity models and earthquake location catalogues</td></tr>
<tr><td>NotApplicable</td><td>Multiple file formats</td></tr>
<tr><td>NotProvided</td><td>Not Provided</td></tr>
<tr><td>P1</td><td>U.K.O.O.A. P1/90 exchange format for raw marine positioning data in common use in oil and gas industry.</td></tr>
<tr><td>P2</td><td>U.K.O.O.A. P2/94 exchange format for raw marine positioning data in common use in oil and gas industry.</td></tr>
<tr><td>PDF</td><td>Portable Document Format</td></tr>
<tr><td>PH5</td><td>IRIS PASSCAL format that improves upon the SEG-Y format</td></tr>
<tr><td>PNG</td><td>Image file format stands for Portable Network Format. </td></tr>
<tr><td>PPT</td><td>Microsoft PowerPoint File</td></tr>
<tr><td>PS</td><td>Adobe PostScript Format</td></tr>
<tr><td>R2R:Nav</td><td>ISO-compliant ASCII navigation file format comprising date/time, longitude and latitude. Standard navigation file format of the Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Program.</td></tr>
<tr><td>RDF</td><td>GeoSwath Sonar Raw Data File</td></tr>
<tr><td>RFF</td><td>Raw data format from Kongsberg GeoSwath interferometric system, contains bathymetry and sidescan. Can be read with software packages such as Caris and SonarWiz.</td></tr>
<tr><td>SAC</td><td>IRIS PASSCAL format used with Seismic Analysis Code (SAC) software</td></tr>
<tr><td>SEABIRD:TSG</td><td>SeaBird TSG format for TSG raw and TSGCONV converted data. Used on Langseth cruises mainly in 2009 (from MGL0814 to MGL0910).</td></tr>
<tr><td>SEASOFT</td><td>Sea-Bird proprietary format. Conversion software available at website.</td></tr>
<tr><td>SEED</td><td>Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data (SEED)</td></tr>
<tr><td>SEGD</td><td>One of several standards developed by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists for storing geophysical data.</td></tr>
<tr><td>SEGY</td><td>One of several standards developed by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists for storing geophysical data. Originally developed for storing single-line seismic digital data.</td></tr>
<tr><td>SHP</td><td>Shapefiles - A popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software. The format is developed and regulated by ESRI as a (mostly) open specification for data interoperability among ESRI and other software products. Shapefiles spatially describe geometries: points, polylines, and polygons. </td></tr>
<tr><td>SIO86</td><td>Custom format from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) for eXpendable BathyThermograph data.</td></tr>
<tr><td>TIFF</td><td>Tagged Image File Format</td></tr>
<tr><td>UHDAS</td><td>University of Hawaii Data Acquisition System format for ADCP data</td></tr>
<tr><td>WAV</td><td>Waveform Audio File Format, for audio data</td></tr>
<tr><td>WCD</td><td>Konsgberg watercolumn file (could be .wcd or .kmwcd) which records backscatter in the water column.</td></tr>
<tr><td>XLS</td><td>Microsoft Excel binary vendor file format. Can be accommodated, but ASCII files are preferred to ensure longevity of access to data files.</td></tr>
<tr><td>XML</td><td>Extensible Markup Language</td></tr>
<tr><td>XTF</td><td>eXtended Triton Format (XTF) is a Triton Imaging, Inc. file format for recording various types of hydrographic survey data.</td></tr>
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