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    "tag": 12000,
    "title": "Repeat high-resolution bathymetry datasets collected between 2014 and 2016 of a field of crescent-shaped rippled scour depressions in northern Monterey Bay, California",
    "pubdate": "2018",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/F71C1W36",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/pcmsc\/DataReleases\/ScienceBase\/DR_F71C1W36\/repeat_bathymetry_datasets_NMB_2014_2016_metadata.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "Between November 2014 and June 2016 the U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) conducted eight repeat, high-resolution bathymetry and acoustic-backscatter surveys of a small patch of seafloor offshore Santa Cruz in northern Monterey Bay, California. PCMSC also collected oceanographic time-series data over the same two-year period. This metadata file describes the eight bathymetry datasets.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Dartnell, Peter",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Rosenberger, Kurt J.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Storlazzi, Curt D.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
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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": "82",
            "name": "bathymetry measurement",
            "scope": "Means of determining the depth to the floor of a body of water, especially the ocean."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "474",
            "name": "geospatial datasets",
            "scope": "Collections of related digital information that are geographically referenced."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2037",
            "name": "interferometric sonar",
            "scope": "Acoustic technique for determining depths or creating backscatter imagery in a wide swath of seafloor or lakebed centered below the instrument platform."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "707",
            "name": "marine geophysics",
            "scope": "Branch of earth sciences concerned with the physical processes of the oceans and continental margins.  We include here studies of large bodies of brackish and fresh water, such as lakes and rivers."
        },
        {
            "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."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "008",
            "name": "geoscientificInformation",
            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
        {
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            "code": "010",
            "name": "imageryBaseMapsEarthCover",
            "scope": "Base maps, for example land\/earth cover, topographic maps, imagery, unclassified images, annotations, digital ortho imagery"
        },
        {
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            "code": "22",
            "name": "Bathymetry and Elevation",
            "scope": "Includes measures of the height of a location above or below a reference surface. Bathymetry is 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 at mean lower low water. Distributions are topographic maps and bathymetric charts based on collected data and also include smoothed or gridded maps of bathymetry and elevation from observational data or other associated factors. Assessment data types include models of ecological value, economic value, or current rates of alterations due to erosion, accretion, climate change, and other stressors (for example, wetland habitat loss). Predictions are the results of models or projections of future distributions, values, or ecological impacts of bathymetry, including predicted changes due to natural and human forces such as erosion, deposition, sea-level rise, and dredging activities; predictions also include the results of scenario-based models of bathymetry changes under different management strategies."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "401",
            "name": "acoustic methods",
            "scope": " measurement of sound propagation in a given medium (such as water) for ranging or acoustical studies."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "734",
            "name": "geophysics",
            "scope": "physics applied to the study of the Earth."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "427",
            "name": "mapping",
            "scope": "in addition to traditional cartographic methods, this term is used for all field activities that document spatial relationships of scientific interest."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "163",
            "name": "ripple mark",
            "scope": "a small, undulating bedform created by waves, currents, or wind."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "173",
            "name": "seabed",
            "scope": "the floor of a sea or ocean."
        }
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            "description": "quick view image of June 2016 bathymetry data"
        }
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        "2014-673-FA",
        "2014-681-FA",
        "2015-604-FA",
        "2015-613-FA",
        "2015-627-FA",
        "2015-673-FA",
        "2016-621-FA",
        "2016-647-FA"
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