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    "tag": 11999,
    "title": "Repeat high-resolution acoustic-backscatter 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_backscatter_datasets_NMB_2014_2016_metadata.faq.html",
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    "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 acoustic-backscatter datasets.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Dartnell, Peter",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Rosenberger, Kurt J.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Storlazzi, Curt D.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
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        },
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            "name": "image mosaics",
            "scope": "Composite images formed by overlapping existing images, typically arranged to achieve greater spatial coverage."
        },
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            "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."
        },
        {
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            "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."
        },
        {
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            "name": "sea-floor acoustic reflectivity",
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        },
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            "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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        },
        {
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            "name": "acoustic methods",
            "scope": " measurement of sound propagation in a given medium (such as water) for ranging or acoustical studies."
        },
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            "name": "geophysics",
            "scope": "physics applied to the study of the Earth."
        },
        {
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            "name": "mapping",
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