MB_BATHYGS30M.TIF - 30-m resolution gray-scale image of multibeam bathymetry in Massachusetts Bay
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: Bradford Butman
- Originator: Page C. Valentine
- Originator: William W. Danforth
- Publication_Date: 2007
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MB_BATHYGS30M.TIF - 30-m resolution gray-scale image of multibeam bathymetry in Massachusetts Bay
- Edition: 1.0
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: remote-sensing image
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- Series_Name: Data Series
- Issue_Identification: 99
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- Publication_Place: Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
- Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
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<http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/99/massbay_gis/2_multibeam/imagery/mb_bathygs30m.zip>
- Online_Linkage: <http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/99/webpages/massbay.html>
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- Originator: Butman, Bradford
- Originator: Valentine, Page C.
- Originator: Middleton, Tammie J.
- Originator: Danforth, William W.
- Publication_Date: 2007
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A GIS Library of Multibeam Data for Massachusetts Bay and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Offshore of Boston, Massachusetts
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- Series_Name: Data Series
- Issue_Identification: 99
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- Publication_Place: Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
- Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
- Online_Linkage: <http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/99/>
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- Abstract:
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The U.S. Geological Survey has conducted geologic mapping to characterize the sea floor offshore of Massachusetts. The mapping was carried out using a Simrad Subsea EM 1000 Multibeam Echo Sounder on the Frederick G. Creed on four cruises conducted between 1994 and 1998. The mapping was conducted in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and with support from the Canadian Hydrographic Service and the University of New Brunswick.
The long-term goal of this mapping effort is to produce high-resolution geologic maps and a Geographic Information System (GIS) project that presents images and grids of bathymetry, shaded relief bathymetry, and backscatter intensity data from these surveys that will serve the needs of research, management and the public.
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This GeoTIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image shows multibeam bathymetry in Massachusetts Bay as grayscale at 30-m resolution. Range is -200 m (0, black) to 0 m (255, white).
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- Beginning_Date: 1994
- Ending_Date: 1998
- Currentness_Reference: ground condition
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- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
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- Bounding_Coordinates:
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.788907
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.599983
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.322212
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.203333
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- Theme_Keyword: bathymetry
- Theme_Keyword: gray-scale bathymetry
- Theme_Keyword: multibeam
- Theme_Keyword: image
- Theme_Keyword: GeoTIFF
- Theme_Keyword: 30-m resolution
- Theme_Keyword: sea floor
- Theme_Keyword: sea floor mapping
- Theme_Keyword: USGS Map I-2734
- Theme_Keyword: Simrad
- Theme_Keyword: EM 1000
- Theme_Keyword: Frederick G. Creed
- Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Science Center
- Theme_Keyword: WHSC
- Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program
- Theme_Keyword: CMGP
- Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey
- Theme_Keyword: USGS
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
- Theme_Keyword: oceans
- Theme_Keyword: oceans and estuaries
- Theme_Keyword: oceans and coastal
- Theme_Keyword: elevation
- Theme_Keyword: imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
- Place_Keyword: Massachusetts
- Place_Keyword: Massachusetts Bay
- Place_Keyword: Boston
- Place_Keyword: Gloucester
- Place_Keyword: Stellwagen Basin
- Place_Keyword: Stellwagen Bank
- Place_Keyword: Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
- Place_Keyword: SBNMS
- Place_Keyword: Jeffreys Ledge
- Place_Keyword: MWRA ocean outfall
- Place_Keyword: MWRA
- Place_Keyword: Massachusetts Bay Disposal Site
- Place_Keyword: MBDS
- Place_Keyword: Tillies Bank
- Place_Keyword: Race Point Channel
- Place_Keyword: Gulf of Maine
- Place_Keyword: United States
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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.
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- Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
- Contact_Person: Bradford Butman
- Contact_Position: Oceanographer
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- 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 x2212
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The multibeam bathymetric data, on which this image is based, were corrected for tidal elevation during the survey using sea level measured at the NOAA Boston tide gage. This assumes that the tidal elevation and phase are the same as Boston across the survey area. Further processing to correct for the spatial and temporal changes in tidal elevation across the survey area would improve the sounding data and may be undertaken at a later time.
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These data were navigated with a Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS); they are accurate to +/- 3 meters, horizontally.
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These data have been corrected for vessel motion (roll, pitch, heave, yaw) and tidal offsets, and referenced to mean lower low water. The theoretical vertical resolution of the Simrad EM-1000 multibeam echosounder is 1 % of water depth; roughly 30 - 50 cm within the study area.
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Multibeam bathymetric survey data collected by USGS in Massachusetts Bay, 1994-1998
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- Beginning_Date: 1994
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A suite of processing software (called SwathEd) (www.omg.unb.ca/~jhc/SwathEd.html), developed by the Ocean Mapping Group at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, was used to process and grid the multibeam bathymetric soundings and produce shaded-relief images. The metadata for the grids describes the processing steps applied to the navigation and bathymetric soundings. The following processing steps produced the grayscale image of depth values:
1. Anomalous soundings which were not edited in the field were removed using SwathEd (see metadata for bathymetric grids for description).
2. Create a grayscale image from the binary swathed grids that depicts the depth range. For this we used a low value of -200 (black) and a high value of 0 (white):
Command line: r4to8bit -low -200 -high 0 gridFile.r4 gridFile.8bit
3. Create a tiff from the grayscale depth image using the netpbm utilities (<http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/>):
Command line: rawtopgm -headerskip 1024 image_width image_height gridFile.8bit | pnmtotiff -none - > grayscaleDepths.tif
4. Create an ESRI world file (tfw) for the mosaic tiff image for import to ArcView or ArcGIS. Copy bounding box and resolution from the jview program output to the .tfw file.
Command line: jview gridFile.8bit
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
- Contact_Person: Tammie J. Middleton
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
- City: Woods Hole
- State_or_Province: MA
- Postal_Code: 02543-1598
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
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Reprocessing to correct projection error
An error in the UNB processing software that resulted in the multibeam observations not being properly projected onto a plane was discovered in 2003. These software errors were corrected and the data re-gridded. The images of backscatter intensity in the Stellwagen Bank region presented here may differ from preliminary versions included in the following publications:
Butman, B., and Lindsay, J.A. (Eds.), 1999, A marine GIS Library for Massachusetts Bay: focusing on Disposal sites, Contaminated Sediments, and Sea Floor Mapping: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-439, 1 CD-ROM. (Also available on line at <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of99-439/start.htm>)
Gutierrez, B.T., Butman, Bradford, and Blackwood, D.S., 2001, Photographs of the sea floor of western Massachusetts Bay, offshore of Boston, Massachusetts, July 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-427, 1 CD-ROM. (Also available on line at <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of00-427/>)
Valentine, P.C., Middleton, T., and Fuller, S., 2001, Maps showing sea floor topography, sun-illuminated sea floor topography, and backscatter intensity of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts: USGS Open-File Report #00-410, 1 CD-ROM, scale 1:60,000. (Also available on line at <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of00-410/>)
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- Contact_Person: William Danforth
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- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2274
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Image shifted 1/2 grid cell to northwest (using the ArcMap/Data Management Tools/Projections and Transformations/Raster/Shift tool) to correct for an error identified in the SwathEd gridding algorithm in 2007. Correct world file.
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Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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