CONTENTS 



Page 



CONVERSION FACTORS, U.S. CUSTOMARY TO METRIC (SI) 5 



I INTRODUCTION 7 



II SURVEY TECHNIQUES 7 



1. Essential Data 7 



2. Essential Equipment 9 



III SURVEY PLANNING 10 



1. Amount of Data 10 



2. Field Data Collection 10 



LITERATURE CITED 14 



APPENDIX 



A LIST OF EQUIPMENT AND SPECIFICATIONS 15 



B EXAMPLE COST ESTIMATE 17 



TABLE 



Guidelines for estimating number of days required for data collection 



operations 12 



FIGURES 



1 Section of seismic record taken off the coast of southern California. . 8 



2 Tentative ship tracklines plotted on nautical chart 11 



