Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

Magnetometer How to do it Manual No. 1: How to create a contour plot

Author/s J.N. Green

Year of publication 2009

Report Number: 254

Introduction
This how to do it paper deals with how to capture magnetic field intensity data from an ELSEC 7760 and converting the magnetometer output file to a contour plot. It assumes that the data comes from the Sea Scan PC program, it is then formatted in Microsoft Excel and then converted to a contour plot in either Surfer or ArcMap.