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Article: GEBCO Digital Atlas now on CD-ROM.(brief article)(Product Announcement)
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- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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A CD-ROM of the GEBCO Digital Atlas (GDA) has recently been published by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC). It includes a seamless, global, digital set of the GEBCO basic contours (i.e., 200m, 500m, and at 500m intervals thereafter) with contours at intermediate depths also included in some areas, where available. The CD-ROM is accompanied by a floppy disk containing the GDA Software Interface and an extensive supporting volume describing the activities of GEBCO and providing a user guide to the software.
Contents of die CD-ROM include:
* Digitized bathymetric contours, coastlines, and trackline control from the GEBCO Fifth Edition published at a ...