{
    "tag": 15266,
    "title": "Seafloor character--Offshore of Santa Barbara, California",
    "pubdate": "2013",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DS 781",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/pcmsc\/SeriesReports\/DS_DDS\/DS_781\/SantaBarbara\/SeafloorCharacter_OffshoreSantaBarbara_metadata.faq.html",
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    "descript": "This part of DS 781 presents data for the seafloor-character map of the Offshore of Santa Barbara map area, California. The raster data file is included in \"SeafloorCharacter_OffshoreSantaBarbara.zip,\" which is accessible from https:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/ds\/781\/OffshoreSantaBarbara\/data_catalog_OffshoreSantaBarbara.html. These data accompany the pamphlet and map sheets of Johnson, S.Y., Dartnell, P., Cochrane, G.R., Golden, N.E., Phillips, E.L., Ritchie, A.C., Greene, H.G., Krigsman, L.M., Kvitek, R.G., Dieter, B.E., Endris, C.A., Seitz, G.G., Sliter, R.W., Erdey, M.E., Gutierrez, C.I., Wong, F.L., Yoklavich, M.M., Draut, A.E., Hart, P.E., and Conrad, J.E. (S.Y. Johnson and S.A. Cochran, eds.), 2013, California State Waters Map Series\u2014Offshore of Santa Barbara, California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3281, 45 p., 11 sheets, scale 1:24,000, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3133\/sim3281.  This raster-format seafloor-character map shows six substrate classes of the Offshore of Santa Barbara map area. The six substrate classes mapped in this area have been colored to indicate which of the following California Marine Life Protection Act depth zones and slope classes they belong: Depth Zone 2 (intertidal to 30 m), Depth Zone 3 (30 to 100 m), and Slope Class 1, 0 degrees to 5 degrees (flat). Depth Zone 1 (intertidal), Depth Zones 4 and 5 (greater than 100 m), and Slope Classes 2 to 4, greater than 5 degrees (sloping to vertical) are not present in this map area. The map is created using a supervised classification method described by Cochrane (2008).  References Cited:  California Department of Fish and Game, 2008, California Marine Life Protection Act master plan for marine protected areas--Revised draft: California Department of Fish and Game, accessed April 5 2011, at http:\/\/www.dfg.ca.gov\/mlpa\/masterplan.asp.  Cochrane, G.R., 2008, Video-supervised classification of sonar data for mapping seafloor habitat, in Reynolds, J.R., and Greene, H.G., eds., Marine habitat mapping technology for Alaska: Fairbanks, University of Alaska, Alaska Sea Grant College Program, p. 185-194, accessed April 5, 2011, at http:\/\/doc.nprb.org\/web\/research\/research%20pubs\/615_habitat_mapping_workshop\/Individual%20Chapters%20High-Res\/Ch13%20Cochrane.pdf.  Sappington, J.M., Longshore, K.M., and Thompson, D.B., 2007, Quantifying landscape ruggedness for animal habitat analysis--A case study using bighorn sheep in the Mojave Desert: Journal of Wildlife Management, v. 71, p. 1,419-1,426.",
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    "journal": null,
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Phillips, Eleyne L.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Erdey, Mercedes D.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Cochrane, Guy R.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Golden, Nadine E.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
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            "thcode": 2,
            "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": "319",
            "name": "ecosystems",
            "scope": "The interacting populations of plants, animals, and  microorganisms occupying a certain area, and their relationship to the environment."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "474",
            "name": "geospatial datasets",
            "scope": "Collections of related digital information that are geographically referenced."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2046",
            "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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        {
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            "code": "700",
            "name": "maps and atlases",
            "scope": "Representation, usually on a flat surface, of a part or whole of the Earth or other parts of the universe.  Collections of maps linked digitally or bound together in a book are called atlases."
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            "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": "2053",
            "name": "sea-floor acoustic reflectivity",
            "scope": "Acoustic energy received by a sonar system, providing a measure of the roughness of the sea floor."
        },
        {
            "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,
            "code": "1083",
            "name": "sonar methods",
            "scope": "SOund Navigation And Ranging techniques to detect submerged objects and to determine depths to the bottom of a water body using reflections of sound waves."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1201",
            "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."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1350",
            "name": "videos",
            "scope": "Animation or other motion pictures, including videotape and DVD products."
        },
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            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "007",
            "name": "environment",
            "scope": "Environmental resources, protection and conservation, for example environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape, water quality, air quality, environmental modeling"
        },
        {
            "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",
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            "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": 23,
            "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."
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        {
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            "name": "Distributions",
            "scope": "Locations or patterns of a feature of interest across space and (or) time. These data can include point data, lines, polygons, and temporal data at any scale relevant to CMSP and can be produced by observation, interpolation, or modeling. Distributions can also include maps or statistics of climatology, the environmental values that are expected to be observed at the present time."
        },
        {
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            "name": "Physical Habitats and Geomorphology",
            "scope": "Includes measures of the geologic and structural characteristics of the coast or sea floor, such as the features defined in the Geoform Component of CMECS. Distributions are detailed topographic and bathymetric maps, geolocated photographs, or sea-floor descriptions; Distributions includes maps that interpret observations to categorize areas on the basis of geoform types such as those in CMECS. Assessment types include evaluations of ecological or human use value and can include models that project environmental or economic effects of erosion, climate change, dredging, and other stressors. Predictions are the results of models or projections of future distributions, values, or ecological impacts of physical habitats, including predicted changes due to natural and human forces; they are also from scenario-based models of resource losses, gains, or impacts on ecological or economic values under different management strategies (for example, mining, removal, relocation, or the building of structures)."
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        {
            "thcode": 23,
            "code": "23",
            "name": "Substrate",
            "scope": "Represents the character and composition of the surface and near surface of the sea floor in subtidal or intertidal areas, as defined in the Substrate Component of CMECS or in similar classification systems. Distributions are records of substrate characteristics based on visual or photographic inspection or on analysis of samples and cores, and they also include interpretive maps classifying areas on the basis of combinations of observations, hydrodynamic models, or geological models. Assessments include evaluations of present ecological or economic values of substrate distributions, drivers of substrate change, and functions of substrates. Predictions are the results of models or projections of future substrate distributions, values, or ecological impacts, including predicted substrate changes due to natural and human forces including erosion, accretion, sea-level change, extraction, trawling, or other factors; and they are the results of scenario-based models of substrate changes on ecological or economic values under different management strategies or other human alterations."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 62,
            "code": "GC-041",
            "name": "Bight",
            "scope": "Physiographic Setting: A broad bend or curve in a generally open coast. ..."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 62,
            "code": "GC-042",
            "name": "Borderland",
            "scope": "Physiographic Setting: An area of the continental margin (between the shoreline and the continental slope) that is topographically more complex than the continental shelf. ..."
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        {
            "thcode": 62,
            "code": "GC-044",
            "name": "Continental\/Island Shelf",
            "scope": "Physiographic Setting: That part of the continental margin that is between the shoreline and the continental slope (or a depth or 200 meters when there is no noticeable continental slope); it is characterized by its very gentle slope of 0.1\u00b0. ..."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 62,
            "code": "AS-013",
            "name": "Marine Nearshore Subtidal",
            "scope": "Tidal Zone: The substrate is generally continuously submerged in this zone and includes those areas below MLLW."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 62,
            "code": "AS-016",
            "name": "Marine Offshore Subtidal",
            "scope": "Tidal Zone: The substrate is subtidal and continuously submerged in this zone and includes those areas below MLLW."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 62,
            "code": "SC-026",
            "name": "Rock Substrate",
            "scope": "Substrate Class: Igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary rock with particle sizes greater than or equal to 4.0 meters (4,096 millimeters) in any dimension that cover 50% or greater of the Geologic Substrate surface."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 62,
            "code": "GC-037",
            "name": "Transform Continental Margin",
            "scope": "Tectonic Setting: A feature defined by the transform fault that develops during continental rifting. ..."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 62,
            "code": "SC-029",
            "name": "Unconsolidated Mineral Substrate",
            "scope": "Substrate Class: Geologic Substrates with less than 50% cover of Rock Substrate. ..."
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            "name": "https:\/\/pubs.usgs.gov\/ds\/781\/OffshoreSantaBarbara\/images\/SeafloorCharacterMap_OffshoreSantaBarbara.jpg",
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