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    "tag": 13297,
    "title": "1 m digital bathymetric contours from NOAA charts as organized for the Long Island Sound Study Geographic Information System (LISSGIS) library (LISBATHY.SHP)",
    "pubdate": "20020630",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "2004-1003",
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    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "The Long Island Sound Study (LISS) compiled data from a number of different sources, integrated new data, and assembled a comprehensive spatial database for areas of the States of Connecticut, New York, and portions of Rhode Island which border Long Island Sound.",
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        {
            "name": "DiGiacomo-Cohen, Mary L.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Tedesco, Mark",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Poppe, Lawrence J.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Paskevich, Valerie F.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Moser, M. S.",
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        {
            "name": "Christman, E. B.",
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            "code": "80",
            "name": "bathymetry",
            "scope": "The elevation of the earth's surface beneath a body of water, especially the ocean, typically determined by measurements of depth from the water surface."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2092",
            "name": "contouring",
            "scope": "Derivation of contours, or other lines of constant value, that visually summarize the spatial variation of some characteristic over an area, for example elevation."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "474",
            "name": "geospatial datasets",
            "scope": "Collections of related digital information that are geographically referenced."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1025",
            "name": "sea-floor characteristics",
            "scope": "Geomorphic features and geographic, compositional, and textural variation in the materials composing the ocean floor. Includes both large-scale structures (such as seamounts and rises) and fine-scale variations in rocks and deposits on the sea floor."
        },
        {
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            "code": "003",
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            "scope": "Legal land descriptions, for example political and administrative boundaries, governmental units, marine boundaries, voting districts, school districts, international boundaries"
        },
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            "name": "elevation",
            "scope": "Height above or below sea level, for example altitude, bathymetry, digital elevation models, slope, derived products, DEMs, TINs"
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            "name": "oceans",
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            "name": "https:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/of\/2004\/1003\/data\/bathy\/lisbathy.gif",
            "description": "Image showing extent of 1 m bathymetry contours for Long Island Sound GIS project area."
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