Instance Specification for GPS Sensor

An example of detailed information (serial number, manufacturer, variables, etc.) for the GPS instrument.

Instrument Description

Metadata last updated by $Author: rich $ on $Date: 2006/03/09 16:29:59 $

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General description of device ID 1511

This is instrument ID 1511, named Garmin GPS. It is deployed in the role of instrument, on the GPS deployment.

This instrument is of type GPS, and was manufactured by Garmin. (Its model name is 17-HVS and its serial number is 80802125.)

The responsible person for this instrument is Zorba Pickerill, who belongs to the organization MBARI. You can reach the responsible person via phone at , and via email at zorba@mbari.org.

Data record description for device ID 1511

Record description for record type 1

This instrument has an ASCII buffer, which SSDS will attempt to parse using the item descriptions below. The buffer's values are ordered, and the length of the buffers is variable.

The buffer values described in the following table are separated by the 'whitespace' character.

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Item #		 Variable Name Displayed Name Units Data Format Custom Formatting Description
1 latitude Latitude in degrees North degrees float Average Latitude in degrees North(negative for South)
2 longitude Longitude in degrees North degrees float Average Longitude in degrees East(negative for South)
3 std_dev Standard Deviation of samples in meters meters float Standard Deviation of all samples
4 samples Number of GPS fixes taken none int Number of GPS Fixes taken
5 time_on Time GPS receiver was on, in seconds seconds int Time GPS receiver was on, in seconds
6 diff_samples Number of differential samples none int Number of samples that were in differential mode
7 hdop Horizontal Dilution of Precision meters float Horizontal Dilution of Precision
8 temp Temperature of GPS receiver degrees C float Temperature of GPS receiver
9 status Status byte from Garmin GPS none hexadecimal Status byte from Garmin GPS
Posted October 16th, 2006 by graybeal