[Geysers] Data from early GPS survey unearthed

[Steven Krause]

I have no suggestions on the processed data, but it might be worth an 
inquiry to the Trimble office in Westminster, CO to see if someone is 
willing to try extracting the data off those floppies.

Obviously the maps and processed information is probably more valuable 
at this point, but having the raw data accessible would be nice to a 
researcher too, and the guys in Westminster might take it as a challenge.

SRK

On 11/1/2015 5:25 PM, Mike O'Brien wrote:
> A little history: back in 1993, I made shameless use of my position as a magazine columnist at the time to inveigle Trimble Navigation into loaning the NPS about $20,000 worth of survey-grade GPS gear.  Rick Hutchinson, myself, and a bunch of my friends spent a couple of weeks touring around the near back country doing a GPS survey of places like the River Group, the Kaleidoscope area and the Sprinkler Group.
>
> After Rick’s death, no one was able to turn up the data files from that survey.  I’ve got them on about 50 floppy disks, in a backup format that can’t be read by any current software, so no joy there.
>
> However, in clearing out a storage room, I came across a manila folder with a bunch of hand-written tables of the reduced survey data, giving the differentially corrected locations of a whole bunch of features, together with some rough, hand-drawn sketch maps showing the features that were surveyed.
>
> I’m not sure who would most benefit from this data.  I’m looking for suggestions as to whom I should send it to.
>
> Mike O'Brien
>
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