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June 2004 Isis® Sonar User's Manual, Volume 2

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Reserved Space

0586

spare5[438]

454 BYTE

Unused; all zeros.


†For storage only, not used in any Q-MIPS calculations.
*Set to the value received from navigation system or digital towfish; otherwise
zero.

Table A-6. Q-MIPS footer format description

Offset Element Name

Bytes
Used

Value
Type

Remarks, Values, Ranges,
Units, Examples, etc.

Date and Time

0000

day

1

BYTE

[1...31], day of the month.

0001

month

1

BYTE

[1...12], month of the year.

0002

year

1

BYTE

[0...99], year within the century.

0003

hour

1

BYTE

[0...23], hour of the day, 24-hour
time.

0004

minute

1

BYTE

[0...59], minute within the hour.

0005

seconds

1

BYTE

[0...59], seconds within the
minute.

0006 thousandsSeconds 2

USHORT [0...999], thousandths of

seconds. Time is kept by
Q-MIPS or Isis system clock
which can be synchronized to
the nav system time at each nav
fix (use AB in template).

Magnetometer Readings

0008

magX

4

FLOAT Magnetometer reading on x, y,

and z axes,

0012

magY

4

FLOAT units are not specified, the value

provided by

0016 magZ

4 FLOAT

the

telemetry is stored with no

Appendix A: Q-MIPS File Format