Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: David C. Twichell Originator: VeeAnn A. Cross Publication_Date: 2005 Title: Area B (central portion) Sidescan-Sonar Mosaic, Pulley Ridge: Geographic Coordinate System Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: remote-sensing image Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1089/data/sidescan/geographic/area_b_geog.zip Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: VeeAnn A. Cross Originator: David C. Twichell Originator: Robert B. Halley Originator: Kate T. Ciembronowicz Originator: Bret D. Jarrett Originator: Erika S. Hammar-Klose Originator: Al C. Hine Originator: Stan D. Locker Originator: Dave F. Naar Publication_Date: 2005 Title: GIS Compilation of Data Collected from the Pulley Ridge Deep Coral Reef Region Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2005-1089 Publication_Information: 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/of/2005/1089 Description: Abstract: Pulley Ridge is a series of drowned barrier islands that extends almost 200 km in 60-100 m water depths. This drowned ridge is located on the Florida Platform in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico about 250 km west of Cape Sable, Florida. This barrier island chain formed during the initial stage of the Holocene marine transgression. These islands were then submerged and left abandoned near the outer edge of the Florida Platform. The southern portion of Pulley Ridge hosts zooxanthellate scleractinian corals, green, red and brown macro algae, and a mix of deep and typically shallow-water tropical fishes. This reef community is in unusually deep water, and its extent and the controls on its distribution were unknown. To address these questions scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geology Program in cooperation with scientists from the University of South Florida Department of Marine Sciences have completed a detailed mapping of the southernmost 35 km of Pulley Ridge. The area was mapped using multibeam bathymetry, sidescan-sonar imagery, and high-resolution seismic-reflection profiling to define the geologic framework on which the reef is established. Submersible dives, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) transects, and transects of bottom photographs and video were collected to identify the corals and to map their distribution. This extensive suite of data has been compiled and preliminary analysis of the data suggests that the reefs are not tied to the ridge system, but instead are more broadly distributed. Whether reef distribution is controlled by oceanographic conditions or by subtle differences in the substrate that overlies the barrier island system is unclear, and are topics of continued research. Purpose: This sidescan-sonar mosaic is used to map the morphology of the seafloor. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20010910 Ending_Date: 20010911 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -83.744269 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -83.636793 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.871469 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.756736 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Theme_Keyword: CMGP Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program Theme_Keyword: coral Theme_Keyword: coral reef Theme_Keyword: OF 2005-1089 Theme_Keyword: Open-File Report Theme_Keyword: reef Theme_Keyword: sidescan Theme_Keyword: sidescan sonar Theme_Keyword: TIFF Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey Theme_Keyword: USGS Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Science Center Theme_Keyword: DF-1000 Theme_Keyword: field activity serial number 01010 Theme_Keyword: field activity identifier S-1-01-GM Theme_Keyword: mosaic Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Place_Keyword: Florida Place_Keyword: Florida Shelf Place_Keyword: Gulf of Mexico Place_Keyword: North America Place_Keyword: Pulley Ridge Place_Keyword: United States Access_Constraints: None. Use_Constraints: The U.S. Geological Survey must be referenced as the originator of the dataset in any future products or research derived from these data. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: David C. Twichell Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Oceanographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2266 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dtwichell@usgs.gov Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: W.W. Danforth Originator: T.F. O'Brien Originator: W.C. Schwab Publication_Date: 1991 Title: USGS image processing system: near real-time mosaicking of high-resolution sidescan-sonar data Series_Information: Issue_Identification: Jan. 1991 Publication_Information: Publisher: Sea Technology Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: E.S. Hammar-Klose Originator: D.C. Twichell Originator: C.R. Worley Publication_Date: 2003 Title: Archive of sidescan-sonar data and DGPS navigation data, collected during USGS cruise SUNC01010, Pulley Ridge, Gulf of Mexico, 05 September - 12 September 2001 Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 02-155 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: V.F. Paskevich Publication_Date: 1992 Title: Digital mapping of sidescan sonar data with the Woods Hole Image Processing System software Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 92-536 Publication_Information: Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: V.F. Paskevich Publication_Date: 1996 Title: MAPIT: An improved method for mapping digital sidescan sonar data using the Woods Hole Image Processing System (WHIPS) Software Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 96-281 Publication_Information: Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Data_Quality_Information: Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: The ship was navigated with Differential GPS which has an assumed accuracy of better than 10 meters. A transponder was used to range to fish, which introduces additional positional accuracy of the sidescan imagery. Quantitative_Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Assessment: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Value: 30m Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: Sidescan-sonar imagery was collected using an EG&G DF1000 sidescan sonar system and logged to a Triton Elics QMIPS data logging computer. Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Erika Hammar-Klose Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Marine Geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2344 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 5084572310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ehammark@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The digital sidescan data were then processed and mapped to provide proper geographic locations of features identified in the imagery. The processing steps included subsampling the raw sidescan data using a median filtering routine to suppress speckle noise and reduce file size, and correct for slant-range distortion, signal attenuation, and dropped sonar lines using XSonar (Danforth et al., 1991). After these processing steps, the imagery was mapped into its proper geographic location using techniques summarized by Paskevich (1996). Individual sidescan swaths were mapped with each pixel geographically positioned at a resolution of 1 m/pixel. Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Erika Hammar-Klose Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Marine Geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2344 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 5084572310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ehammark@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Non-overlapping swaths were then brought into the remote sensing software package PCI. The techniques for generating the composite digital sidescan mosaic are summarized by Paskevich (1992). Process_Step: Process_Description: Once the mosaics were completed, noise and areas of no data were trimmed from the fringes of the completed mosaic. Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Marine Geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: A linear stretch was applied in PCI to the sidescan image. This stretch was from 0-255 with resulting values between 0 and 254. This was done so that the white background (255) could be made transparent in the GIS. Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Marine Geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The image was reprojected to geographic coordinates using BlueMarble Geographic Transformer version 5.1. The central latitude was auto-computed (24deg 48' 0.77" N). 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