Arabian Sea Process Study Standard Station 
locations and cast distance tables

version  29 July 2002
Prepared by US JGOFS DMO


These standard station location and cast distance tables were generated 
by an IDL program which reads each cast's ".pos" file and employs a great 
circle distance calculator to find the standard location to which the 
cast was closest, within a maximum distance of 20 km. The program was 
modeled after code written by Steve Mitchell at Advanced Technology
Information Network, California State University at Fresno. His great 
circle distance calculator and a listing of the C code are available 
upon request.


The results of the program have been compared to a Garmin GPS unit and 
have been found to be reliable. Please use these tables and distribute 
them freely. If you have any questions, contact Steve Gaurin, who works 
under the direction of Lou Codispoti:


Steve Gaurin
  Horn Point Laboratory 
  UMCES-Horn Point Lab
  P.O. Box 775 
  2020 Horns Point Road 
  Cambridge , MD 21613 USA
		       
e-mail: sgaurin@hpl.umces.edu 
phone: 410-221-8209 (w)
       410-221-8490 (f) 
       
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