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    "tag": 17777,
    "title": "Geotagged sea-floor images and location of bottom images collected in Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York, in fall 2017 and spring 2018 by the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Connecticut, and University of New Haven during field activities 2017-056-FA and 2018-018-FA (JPEG images, point shapefile, and CSV file)",
    "pubdate": "20201123",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/P9GK29NM",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/SB_data_release\/DR_P9GK29NM\/2017-056-FA_and_2018-018-FA_photos_meta.faq.html",
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    "descript": "Two marine geological surveys were conducted in Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York, in fall 2017 and spring 2018 by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), University of Connecticut, and University of New Haven through the Long Island Sound Mapping and Research Collaborative. Sea-floor images and videos were collected at 210 sampling sites within the survey area, and surficial sediment samples were collected at 179 of the sites. The sediment data and the observations from the images and videos are used to identify sediment texture and sea-floor habitats.",
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    "journal": null,
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "U.S. Geological Survey",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Ackerman, Seth D.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Huntley, Emily C.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Blackwood, Dann S.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Babb, Ivar G.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Zajac, Roman N.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Conroy, Christian W.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Auster, Peter J.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Schneeberger, Courtney L.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Walton, Olivia L.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
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            "code": "575",
            "name": "image collections",
            "scope": "Visible representations of objects or earth properties produced by cameras, spectral instruments, or as graphical representations of measurements."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "706",
            "name": "marine geology",
            "scope": "Branch of geology concerned with the composition, geologic history, and earth processes of the ocean floor and the continental margin."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "889",
            "name": "photography",
            "scope": "Process of using digital or film cameras to collect images of objects."
        },
        {
            "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": 2,
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            "name": "underwater photography",
            "scope": "Photographs taken below the water surface, usually in marine, lacustrine, and estuarine environments.  Subjects are typically benthic organisms and sedimentary structures on the bottom."
        },
        {
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            "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"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "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"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "123",
            "name": "continental shelf",
            "scope": "the gently sloping sea floor between the coast and the continental slope."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "719",
            "name": "marine geology",
            "scope": "used for geological and related studies of ocean basins and margins."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "476",
            "name": "photographic sampling",
            "scope": "photographic documentation of objects or features such as the sea floor, often collected systematically along a trackline to \"ground truth\" co-located data."
        },
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            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "445",
            "name": "photography",
            "scope": "limited to photography for scientific purposes."
        },
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            "scope": "a relatively long ocean inlet separating an island from the mainland or connecting two larger bodies of water; wider than a strait."
        }
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        {
            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/5de9bd31e4b02caea0eeda42\/?name=2017-056-FA_and_2018-018-FA_photos_browse.jpg",
            "description": "Map of sea-floor image locations in the survey area in Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York."
        }
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    "fan": [
        "2017-056-FA",
        "2018-018-FA"
    ]
}