Quality-checked, one-hour resolution cruise track of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) undertaken during the austral summer of 2016/2017.

• Main Authors: Thomas, Jenny, Pina Estany, Carles
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: cruise track; navigation; GPS; GLONASS; Southern Ocean; Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition; ACE; Antarc*; Antarctic; Swiss Polar Institute
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3483164

Dataset abstract The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE), undertaken in the austral summer of 2016/2017 recorded the cruise track using two independent geo-location instruments: one using GLobal NAvigation Satellite Systems (GLONASS; hereafter referred to as GLONASS) and another primarily using the Global Positioning System (GPS; hereafter referred to as the Trimble GPS). Daily log files were recorded in real-time from both instruments during the expedition and added to MySQL database tables. Following the expedition, quality-checking work has been undertaken to provide a one-second resolution set of positions for the cruise track. Here we present the final quality-checked dataset aggregated to a resolution of one hour. This is of use for understanding the position of the vessel to a lower precision, such as for plotting the track throughout the voyage. Dataset contents ace_cruise_track_1hour_YYYY-MM.csv, data file, comma-separated values README.txt, metadata, text file data_file_header.txt, metadata, text file Dataset license This quality-checked cruise track dataset is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) whose full text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition was made possible by funding from the Swiss Polar Institute and Ferring Pharmaceuticals.