Page C. Valentine Lian A. Scully Sarah J. Fuller 2005 1.0 vector digital data Scientific Investigations Map2840 Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2005/2840/data/videotrack/sbnmsallvid.zip Page C. Valentine, editor 2005 1.0 Scientific Investigations Map 2840 Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2005/2840/1 DVD-ROM sbnmsallvid Development of interpretive seabed maps, sea floor imagery, and a GIS database that are accessible to scientists, policymakers, managers, and the general public. enThis data set contains polylines showing extents of video transects documenting seabed characteristics in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Region off Boston, Massachusetts, an area of approximately 1100 nautical square miles. The Stellwagen Bank NMS Mapping Project is designed to provide detailed maps of the Stellwagen Bank region's environments and habitats and the first complete multibeam topographic and sea floor characterization maps of a significant region of the shallow EEZ. 19932004 ground condition Complete As needed -70.611927 -70.033167 42.798950 42.084650 -70.611927-70.03316742.08465042.798950 General Geographic Information Systems GIS U.S. Geological Survey USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program CMGP Woods Hole Science Center WHSC topographic data sea floor topography bathymetry sea floor photos sea floor video sea floor features interpretationpolyline features General Massachusetts MA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary SBNMS Shallow EEZ EEZ Gulf of Maine Atlantic Ocean Boston oceans and estuariesISO 19115 Topic CategorygeoscientificInformationlocation none 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. Page C. Valentine U.S. Geological Survey Research Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2239 (508) 457-2310 pvalentine@usgs.gov Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535 Shapefile sbnmsallvid.shpsbnmsallvid.dbfsbnmsallvid.shxVideo transect positions were created using GPS navigational data collected during research cruises occurring from 1993 through 2004. Dataset copied.F:\New_Vineyard\Stellwagen\videotracks\all_video\sbnmsallvid2005102716310300 No additional checks for topological consistency were performed on the data. Vector String 2894 SimplePolylineFALSE2894FALSEFALSE North American Datum of 1983 Geodetic Reference System 80 6378137.000000 298.257222 GCS_North_American_1983Decimal degrees0.0000000.000000 sbnmsallvid Shapefile Attribute Table Feature Class2894ESRI FID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. STA_STA_Number19Station number for associated video transect110.004207.00numeric count1.00USGS<blank>Station unidentifiedUSGSCRUISECRUISEString12Name of cruise on which video transect was takenUSGSCharacter string containing ship abbreviation, year and leg of cruiseYEARYEARNumber9Year of cruise Polyline vector segments illustrating the location of seafloor video collected during various mapping surveys conducted by the USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology Program in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Page C. Valentine U.S. Geological Survey Research Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2239 (508) 457-2310 pvalentine@usgs.gov Downloadable Data Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. SHP 0.442 1.6863.3ESRI shapefileThe SHP file contains the geospatial data. The SHX file contains the index of the geospatial data. The DBF file contains the attribute data in dBase format. The PRJ file contains the coordinate system information (optional). The AVL file contains the legend information (optional). The SBN and SBX files contain the spatial index of the geospatial data (optional). The XML file contains the metadata describing the data set <data set name>.shp.xml. An ASCII version of the metadata file. A browse graphic showing the data layer coverage and extent (optional).zip DVD-ROM 4.75GbytesUDF http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2005/2840/data/videotrack/sbnmsallvid.zip None These data are available in Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) shapefile format. The user must have ArcGIS® or ArcView® 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView or ArcGIS, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of the importing data. A free data viewer, arcexplorer, capable of displaying the data is available from ESRI at www.esri.com. 20051027 U.S. Geological Survey Page C. Valentine Research Geologist mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2239 (508) 457-2310 pvalentine@usgs.gov FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time enNoneNonehttp://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.htmlESRI Metadata Profile 20051027163222002005102716310300FALSE2005102716322200Project F:\G_DATA\SBNMSI-maps\dataforCD_081505\videotrack\sbnmsallvid.shp F:\G_DATA\SBNMSI-maps\dataforCD_081505\videotrack\sbnmsallvid_Project.shp PROJCS['NAD_1983_Mercator',GEOGCS['GCS_North_American_1983',DATUM['D_North_American_1983',SPHEROID['GRS_1980',6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM['Greenwich',0.0],UNIT['Degree',0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION['Mercator'],PARAMETER['False_Easting',0.0],PARAMETER['False_Northing',0.0],PARAMETER['Central_Meridian',-70.31666666666666],PARAMETER['Standard_Parallel_1',41.65],UNIT['Meter',1.0]] #{ED8BAB3C-66EE-420D-8854-F9B630CC3F55}20051027Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535sbnmsallvid-70.611927-70.03316742.7989542.084651-70.611927-70.03316742.7989542.084651ISO 19115 Geographic Information - MetadataDIS_ESRI1.0dataset002file://\\ERIHEFDTXP\dataforCD_081505\videotrack\sbnmsallvid.shpLocal Area Network1.686ShapefileGCS_North_American_19832894