Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 2007 Title: APBAY25HS- 25m Hillshaded Bathymetric ArcRaster Grid of Apalachicola Bay and St. George Sound, FL Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2006-1381 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1381/GIS/raster/bath/apbay25hs.zip Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: David C. Twichell Originator: Brian D. Andrews Originator: H. Lee Edmiston Originator: William R. Stevenson Publication_Date: 2007 Title: Geophysical Mapping of oyster habitats in a shallow estuary; Apalachicola Bay, Florida Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2006-1381 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1381/ Description: Abstract: These data were collected under a cooperative mapping program between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Services Center (NOAA\CSC), and the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR). The primary objectives of this program were to collect marine geophysical data to develop a suite of seafloor maps to better define the extent of oyster habitats, the overall seafloor geology of the bay and provide updated information for management of this resource. In addition to their value for management of the bay's oyster resources, the maps also provide a geologic framework for scientific research and the public High-resolution bathymetry, backscatter intensity, and seismic profile data were collected over 230 square kilometers of the floor of the bay. The study focused on the Apalachicola Bay and Western St. George Sound portions of the estuary mostly in depths > 2.0 meters. Purpose: The purpose of this dataset is to produce a bathymetric hillshade grid from swath bathymetry that was collected within the survey boundary in St. George Sound and Apalachicola Bay. Supplemental_Information: These data are a 25m ArcRaster Grid of Apalachicola Bay and St. George Sound generated from swath sounding gridded at 5m. Refer to processing steps under data quality section for detailed methods. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20050314,20060529 Ending_Date: 20050413,20060627 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -85.096558 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -84.753126 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 29.789051 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 29.597035 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey Theme_Keyword: USGS Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program Theme_Keyword: CMGP Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Science Center Theme_Keyword: WHSC Theme_Keyword: Seafloor Theme_Keyword: Marine Geology Theme_Keyword: ArcGIS Raster Theme_Keyword: field activity serial number 05001 Theme_Keyword: field activity serial number 06001 Theme_Keyword: Swath Bathymetry Theme_Keyword: Interferometric Sonar Theme_Keyword: hillshade Theme_Keyword: shaded relief Theme_Keyword: seafloor mapping Theme_Keyword: geologic mapping Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: oceans and estuaries Theme_Keyword: elevation Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Place_Keyword: Apalachicola Bay Place_Keyword: Florida Place_Keyword: Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve Place_Keyword: St. George Sound Place_Keyword: United States Place_Keyword: Gulf of Mexico Stratum: Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Stratum_Keyword: Seafloor Temporal: Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Temporal_Keyword: 2005 Temporal_Keyword: 2006 Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: Data are not intended for navigational use. These data should not be used at resolutions for which it is not intended. Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the source of this information. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Brian Andrews Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2348 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bandrews@usgs.gov Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1381/GIS/thumbnails/apbaybath25hs.jpg Browse_Graphic_File_Description: gray scale hillshaded image Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.2.1350 Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: These data have not been quantitatively compared to previous hydrographic data, although they generally agree with qualitative comparison of published NOAA charts. Completeness_Report: Soundings were gridded in OMG SwathEd software using the entire swath width across track to achieve maximum coverage at the scale of the entire Apalachicola Bay/St. George Sound survey area. Although the soundings were manually edited, small data spikes may exist at outer edges of swath. Pockmark features that appear in the dredge channel of the intracoastal waterway fairways are artifacts of the of the processing methods used to generate a continuous surface from swath bathymetry collected on lines spaced 100m apart. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: DGPS is assumed to be accurate within 1-2 meters. Standard GPS is assumed accurate within 5-10 meters. 99% of the positional data is DGPS. Unless noted, all GPS/DGPS data is referenced to WGS84 (NAD83). The configuration of the fathometer is as follows: The fathometer is mounted on a pole at the bow of the R/V RAFAEL. Offset between the fathometer pole and GPS antenna is measured. On ASV IRIS, the seismic profiler from which single-beam bathymetry measurements were collected was directly below the GPS antenna. No measurements were taken of ship's pitch, yaw, heave, or change in draft due to water and fuel usage. Motion of the fathometer is not measured. Horizontal accuracy of the fathometer is assumed to be within +/- 3 meters. Vertical_Positional_Accuracy: Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Ship motion was recorded with a TSS DMS 2-05 Attitude Sensor, mounted on a head above the interferometric Submetrix 2000 Series transducers. Navigation was recorded using Real Time Kinematic Differential Global Positioning System (RTK-DGPS). The interferometric sonar is an angle-measuring system; depth accuracy decreases with increasing horizontal range. The combined angular accuracy of the Submetrix 2000 Series and the TSS DMS 2-05 attitude sensor is documented as 0.1 degrees. Assuming a constant angular accuracy, and using the International Hydrographic Standard (IHO) of a required 0.3 meter accuracy in < 30 meter water depth, all data collected within the survey fall within the IHO accuracy standards. However, vertical accuracy is also directly affected by the accuracy of both the navigation system and tidal measurements. RTK DGPS vertical accuracy is assumed to be 0.2 meters. Tidal elevations were derived from RTK -DGPS heights sent from a survey-specific base station located on St. George Island. The base station occupied a temporary monument. The x & y positions were calculated for that location using a 3 day average of 12 hour data sets using the Online Positioning User Service (OPUS, National Geodetic Survey) solution. Tidal elevations were calculated from NOAA Tidal Station #8728690 using the same OPUS solution and then applied to the corrected elevations for the base station at St. George Island. Antenna heights were referenced to Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) for easier comparison of NOAA nautical charts Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 2007 Title: APBAYBATH25M - 25m Bathymetric Model of Apalachicola Bay and St. George Sound, Florida Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2006-1381 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1381/GIS/raster/bath/apbaybath25m.zip Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: David C. Twichell Originator: Brian D. Andrews Originator: H. Lee Edmiston Originator: William R. Stevenson Publication_Date: 2007 Title: Geophysical Mapping of oyster habitats in a shallow estuary; Apalachicola Bay, Florida Edition: 1.0 Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1381/ Process_Step: Process_Description: Bathymetric hillshade was calculated with azimuth = 035, altitude = 045, vertical exaggeration = 5 Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: apbaybth25m Process_Date: 200701 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: apbay25hs Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Brian Andrews Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x 2348 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bandrews@usgs.gov Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Raster Raster_Object_Information: Raster_Object_Type: Grid Cell Row_Count: 828 Column_Count: 1315 Vertical_Count: 1 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Planar: Grid_Coordinate_System: Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: Universal Transverse Mercator Universal_Transverse_Mercator: UTM_Zone_Number: 16 Transverse_Mercator: Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.999600 Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -87.000000 Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.000000 False_Easting: 500000.000000 False_Northing: 0.000000 Planar_Coordinate_Information: Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: row and column Coordinate_Representation: Abscissa_Resolution: 25.000000 Ordinate_Resolution: 25.000000 Planar_Distance_Units: meters Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_WGS_1984 Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257224 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: apbay25hs.vat Attribute: Attribute_Label: Count Attribute: Attribute_Label: Rowid Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Attribute: Attribute_Label: VALUE Attribute: Attribute_Label: Value Attribute: Attribute_Label: COUNT Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Brian Andrews Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2348 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bandrews@usgs.gov Resource_Description: Downloadable Data Distribution_Liability: Although this data set has been used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS as to the accuracy of the data and/or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Standard_Order_Process: Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: ESRI Grid Format_Version_Number: ArcGIS 9.2 Format_Specification: ESRI Grid File Format_Information_Content: Hillshade grid representation of swath bathymetric data collected in the Apalachicola Bay and St. George Sound Florida File_Decompression_Technique: zip Transfer_Size: 0.454 Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1381/GIS/raster/bath/apbay25hs.zip Access_Instructions: Data can be downloaded via the World Wide Web (WWW) Offline_Option: Offline_Media: DVD-ROM Recording_Capacity: Recording_Density: 4.75 Recording_Density_Units: Gbytes Recording_Format: UDF Compatibility_Information: None Fees: None Technical_Prerequisites: These data are available as an 8-bit continuous unsigned integer raster in Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) format. 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