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Archiving A basic survey report should contain enough information to describe each target sufficiently for each to be investigated but a more detailed report would help others repeating the survey work at a later date. The ideal would be to allow others to reprocess the data collected on your survey as better methods for processing may be available in the future. This means that the information from your survey should be stored in an archive. The archive should contain enough information for others to repeat the same data processing tasks. This requires the archive to have a complete set of data in file formats that can be read at a later date. It is essential to include the raw data in the archive in a non-proprietary and very common format so it has the highest chance of being read and understood many years later when file formats and standards may have changed. • Metadata in CSV (Comma Separated Variable) or text format • Raw data in CSV format • Target list in CSV format • Report in raw text format • Report as published in common format (MS Word, HTML, RTF) • Processed files in processing application native format • Target images in common lossless file format (TIF, PNG), do not use lossy format like JPG. Marine Magnetometer Processing \[41\] © 3H Consulting Ltd