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    "tag": 7808,
    "title": "o199sc.m77t and o199sc.h77t: MGD77T data and header file for single-beam bathymetry for field activity O-1-99-SC in Southern California from 06\/05\/1999 to 06\/17\/1999",
    "pubdate": "2013",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": null,
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/spcmsc\/DS757_o199sc.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "Single-beam bathymetry data along with DGPS navigation data was collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey cruise O-1-99-SC. The cruise was conducted in Southern California from June 5 to June 17, 1999. The chief scientist was Bill Normark from the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology office in Menlo Park, CA. The purpose of this cruise was to study pollution transport and accumulation in Santa Monica Bay. The geophysical source was an ODEC 12 kilohertz (kHz) echosounder. These data are reformatted from space-delimited ASCII text files located in the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) InfoBank field activity catalog at http:\/\/walrus.wr.usgs.gov\/infobank\/o\/o199sc\/html\/o-1-99-sc.meta.html into MGD77T format provided by the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC). The MGD77T format includes a header (documentation) file (.h77t) and a data file (.m77t). More information regarding this format can be found in the publication listed in the Cross_reference section of this metadata file.",
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            "name": "U.S. Geological Survey",
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        },
        {
            "name": "USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Schreppel, Heather A.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Degnan, Carolyn H.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Metzger, Dan R.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Dadisman, Shawn V.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
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            "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."
        },
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        },
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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": "single-beam echo sounder",
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        },
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        },
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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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