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Geologic Interpretation and Multibeam Bathymetry of the Sea Floor in the Vicinity of the Race, Eastern Long Island Sound


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Title Page
Introduction
Setting
Methods
Results
Discussion
Data Catalog
Acknowledgments
References
List of Figures
Contacts
Disclaimers

This report contains several data layers (or themes) that can be used to create views of the sea floor in eastern Long Island Sound and western Block Island Sound. GeoTIFFs produced from the NOAA multibeam bathymetric survey are provided in geographic and Universal Transverse Mercator (Zone 18). Grids of the multibeam bathymetric data, which are provided in original and hill-shaded (i.e. sun-illuminated) versions, are also provided in geographic and Universal Transverse Mercator. Available vector data include polygon data layers that provide the coastline for the Massachusetts GIS project area and an interpretive data layer.

Data layers are provided with geographic coordinates to allow the data to be integrated into a Geographic Information System (GIS). A GIS is defined as a system of hardware and software to support the display, manipulation, and analysis of spatial data for mapping and complex data solving. This integrated package provides researchers the ability to integrate, analyze and map the various datasets to help with economic and social policy-making decisions regarding the environment.

Data layers archived here should not require additional processing to be utilized within the Environmental Systems Research Institute's (ESRI) ArcView and ArcGIS software. This does not mean that a user will not wish to do additional processing, especially if utilizing a different GIS software package or spheroid, but that it is not necessary to do additional processing simply to utilize the data in its minimum archive format

For those who don't have the ESRI software or a compatible GIS data browser available on their computer, a free viewer, ArcExplorer, is available from ESRI here. The key functionality of ArcExplorer is the viewing of spatial data. The user will need to add the selected data layers by using ArcExplorer's add data button.

Each GIS data layer from this publication is cataloged below for easy access. The individual data layers are described below and include the GeoTIFF, grid, or shapefile name (e.g. h11250_utm18_2mmbes.tif) which is linked to a browse graphic showing the data layer extent and coverage. Selecting the data layer name will result in the browse graphic being displayed in a separate browser window.

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata for the individual data layers is provided in a text version. Selecting associated metadata files from the table below will open the information in a new browser window. A 'zip' compressed, downloadable archive file containing the components of the ArcView shapefile for each data layer is also provided. Compressed downloadable files were created using the Windows program WINZIP v8.0. For those users who do not have software capable of uncompressing the archived zip files, they may obtain a free version of the software from Winzip Computing, Inc. or Pkware, Inc.



Multibeam Bathymetric Imagery

Data Layer Name and Description Metadata Files
h11250_geo_2mmbes - full-color multibeam bathymetric GeoTIFF imagery of NOAA survey H11250 (geographic) HTML
FAQ
txt
zip
h11250_utm18_2mmbes - full-color multibeam bathymetric GeoTIFF imagery of NOAA survey H11250 (UTM, Zone 18) HTML
FAQ
txt
zip


Multibeam Bathymetric Grids

Data Layer Name and Description Metadata Files
h11250g - 2-m bathymetric grid of NOAA survey H11250 (geographic) HTML
FAQ
txt
zip
h11250g_hs - hill-shaded bathymetric grid of NOAA survey H11250 (geographic) HTML
FAQ
txt
zip
b370_h11250_dtm2m.gutm - GeoZui file of NOAA survey H11250 (UTM Zone 18) HTML
FAQ
txt
zip
h11250u_b - bathymetric grid of NOAA survey H11250 (UTM Zone 18) HTML
FAQ
txt
zip
h11250u_hs - hill-shaded bathymetric grid of NOAA survey H11250 (UTM Zone 18) HTML
FAQ
txt
zip


Interpretative Data Layer

Data Layer Name and Description Metadata Files
h11250g_geol - interpretation of the geologic deposits from NOAA survey H11250 (geographic) HTML
FAQ
txt
zip
h11250g_mod - interpretation of the modern features from NOAA survey H11250 (geographic) HTML
FAQ
txt
zip


Basemap Data

Data Layer Name and Description Metadata Files
nos80k - Medium resolution digital vector U.S. shoreline shapefile for the Long Island Sound GIS project area HTML
FAQ
txt
zip
h11250_outline - Boundary of NOAA survey H11250 (geographic) HTML
FAQ
txt
zip
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