Information Management 



Table XI 1 1-2 — Selected Marine Data Center Files 



National Oceanographic Data Center 



Data type 



July 1967 



July 1969 



Bathythermograph : 



Digitized 515,000 604,000 



Analog 400, 000 500, 000 



Expendable Bathythermograph : Digitized 15, 000 



Salinity-Temperature-Depth : Analog 3, 000 



Oceanographic Station 375, 000 415, 000 



Geological 18, 000 « 24, 000 



Biological 8, 000 M2, 000 



Surface Current 2, 500, 000 2, 500, 000 



Environmental Science Services Administration 



Data type 



Units 



Estimated 

 total holdings 



Estimated 



annual 



accumulation 



Tides Station-years 3, 000 



Currents Stations 



Soundings and Shoreline Survey sheets 35, 000 



Surveys. 



Fathograms Linear survey miles 2, 000, 000 



Geodetic Control <= Points ! 400, 000 



Aerial Photos <= Prints 2, 000, 000 



Magnetics <= Linear survey miles 2, 000, 000 



Gravity « Linear survey miles 



Seismic Profiles Linear survey miles 



180 



100 



2,500 



150,000 



1,250 



20, 000 



200, 000 

 50,000 

 10, 000 



Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center 



Data type 



Samples 

 received 



Specimens 

 sorted 



Number of 

 shipments 



Algae 4,970 



Geology 4,800 



Invertebrates 4, 870 



Plankton 17, 100 



Vertebrates 3, 850 



<• Unprocessed backlog— 81,000. 

 ' Unprocessed backlog— 40,000. 

 « Figures represent only marine data holdings and not total ESSA holdings. 



The primary Department of Defense marine data repositories include the 

 Nautical Chart, Bathymetry, Gravity, and Geomagnetics Library and the 

 Fleet Numerical Weather Center. Automated source index systems have 

 been recently installed in all of these facilities and automated plotters to 



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