Spectral Solar Radiation Data Base Documentation, Vol. I

Figure 6-1: Example of the instrument configuration data on the data base tape. The numbers refer to:

  1. "C" indicating configuration
  2. FSEC 1987 Day 122 at 8:13 standard time
  3. Latitude
  4. Longitude
  5. Elevation
  6. Reference to configuration file that will be found in the data files
  7. Starting data-acquisition time plus number of attempts to acquire spectra (which would extend the data acquisition time)
  8. Number of data channels
  9. Number of spectra (0 for configuration files; 1 or 2 for data files)
  10. Number of lines in this segment
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