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    "tag": 17162,
    "title": "Interferometric sonar (swath bathymetry and acoustic backscatter) tracklines collected by the U.S. Geological Survey offshore of Fire Island, NY in 2011 (Geographic, WGS 84, Esri Polyline Shapefile)",
    "pubdate": "2015",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/F75X2704",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/field_activities\/2011_005_fa\/2011-005-FA_swathtrk.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mapped approximately 336 square kilometers  of the lower shoreface and inner-continental shelf offshore of Fire Island, New York in 2011 using interferometric sonar and high-resolution chirp seismic-reflection systems.  These spatial data support research on the Quaternary evolution of the Fire Island coastal system and provide baseline information for research on coastal processes along southern Long Island.  For more information about the WHCMSC Field Activity, see https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/fan_info.php?fan=2011-005-FA.",
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    "journal": null,
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "U.S. Geological Survey",
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        {
            "name": "Denny, Jane F.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Schwab, William C.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Baldwin, Wayne E.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Bergeron, Emile M.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Moore, Eric M.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "index_term": [
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "474",
            "name": "geospatial datasets",
            "scope": "Collections of related digital information that are geographically referenced."
        },
        {
            "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": "2078",
            "name": "navigational data",
            "scope": "Geospatial data indicating the locations of instruments, vessels, aircraft, or other vehicles used to collect scientific observations.  These data include horizontal coordinates in sequence, and may include time or vertical position."
        },
        {
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            "code": "013",
            "name": "location",
            "scope": "Positional information and services, for example addresses, geodetic networks, geodetic control points, postal zones and services, place names, geographic names"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
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    "image": [
        {
            "name": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/data\/field-activity-data\/2011-005-FA\/data\/bathymetry\/2011-005-FA_swathtrk.jpg",
            "description": "Image showing SWATHPlus interferometric sonar tracklines collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on the inner-continental shelf offshore of Fire Island, NY, 2011."
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