A large conference room is available for meetings, chart and map work etc. and also contains the public use PC and Macintosh. General facilities Navigation equipment Ashtech 3DF GPS receiver giving attitude and position data. Koden GPS receiver giving position data. The cables are on removable drums. Computing facilities All continuously sampled navigation, oceanographic and meteorological data are automatically logged by the Data Logging System, and then sent to a separate database server which forwards the data to the displays and makes the data available for plotting and export over the network.
Data access is via their web browser.
The computer network has outlets in all laboratories, expeditioner cabins, conference rooms, the bridge a nd aft control room. CTD and XBT data are logged to dedicated PCs in real time. The data can be viewed after collection using software on these computers. The data files can be transferred to users machines across the network if required. The Echo Listener 12 kHz hydro-acoustic data is logged to a PC in real time and post processed to obtain the bathymetry data.