Navigation

Navigation refers to all the techniques and methods which can be used to:

  • determine the position in relation to a geodesic reference system
  • calculate the route to be taken to safely reach the desired destination.

(source: Wikipedia)

Types de fichiers

File type

Vessel

Extension

Date

Format

processed navigation

all vessels

.nvi

-

NetCDF

TECHSAS raw navigation/attitude

all vessels

shipnav*-CINNA.nav

-

NetCDF

ECOS raw navigation data

Pourquoi Pas ?

Atalante

.ECO

 

ASCII

More information on file formats for geophysical data archived at SISMER.

Positioning data sensors

  • terrestrial radio-electric systems: LORAN C, TORAN, SYLEDIS, etc.
  • satellite radio-electric systems: TRANSIT + estimated until 1990, natural, differential and kinematic GPS since 1990.

More information on the website of the French oceanographic fleet.

Contact

For all further enquiries, please contact the SISMER service (sismer@ifremer.fr).