Metadata: Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Originator: Coastal and Marine Geology Program Publication_Date: 2013 Title: f690sc.m77t and f690sc.h77t: MGD77T data and header files for single-beam bathymetry data for field activity F-6-90-SC in Southern California, Monterey Canyon from 06/19/1990 to 07/12/1990 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: tab-delimited ASCII text files Publication_Information: Publication_Place: St. Petersburg, FL Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/757/data/m77t/f690sc.m77t Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Heather A. Schreppel Originator: Carolyn H. Degnan Originator: Dan R. Metzger Originator: Shawn V. Dadisman Publication_Date: 2013 Title: Archive of U.S. Geological Survey selected single-beam bathymetry datasets, 1969-2000 Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Digital Document Series_Information: Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series Issue_Identification: 757 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: St. Petersburg, FL Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/757 Description: Abstract: Single-beam bathymetry data along with Loran-C RHO-RHO and GPS navigation data was collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey cruise F-6-90-SC. The cruise was conducted in Southern California, Monterey Canyon from June 19 to July 12, 1990. The chief scientists were Jim Gardner from the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology office in Menlo Park, CA and Doug Masson. The purpose of this cruise was to survey with midrange sidescan sonar (TOBI: towed ocean bottom instrument).The geophysical source was 12 kilohertz (kHz), 7 kHz, and 3.5 kHz systems. 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/f/f690sc/html/f-6-90-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. Purpose: These data and information are intended for science researchers,students, policy makers, and general public. These data are not to be used for navigation purposes. The data are reformatted into MGD77T standard format for inclusion into NOAA's NGDC geophysical database. From there the data will be made available to GeoMapApp (http://www.geomapapp.org/) and Virtual Ocean (http://www.virtualocean.org/) Earth-browsing software. Access to the data is also provided via the USGS Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System (http://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/). Supplemental_Information: The navigation data are digitally collected using Loran-C RHO-RHO and a Global Positioning System (GPS). The GPS is a space-based satellite navigation system maintained by the United States government and is accessible using a GPS receiver. Data accuracy is based on individual receiver models, and most GPS data are collected in the WGS84 horizontal datum. Loran-C was a federally provided radionavigation service managed by the U.S. Coast Guard. Low frequency radio signals transmitted by fixed land based radio beacons served the 48 continental states, their coastal areas, and parts of Alaska. Loran-C could be utilized in different modes of operation; one of these was circular mode, also known as, range-range or RHO-RHO. It only needed a fix from two stations in order to establish a position and an accuracy of 20 to 40 m was achievable. The Data Acquisition, Processing, and Storage (DAPS) group performs a number of processing steps to the navigation data once it is collected which can vary by cruise. These steps are outlined within the header information in each individual digital navigation (.0xx, .6xx) space-delimited ASCII data file. The header information rows are indicated by lines beginning with the character "!".The single-beam bathymetry data are collected both digitally and as analog records with 12 kHz, 7 kHz, and 3.5 kHz systems. The bathymetry datasets were commonly processed using three programs: (A) Batred, which calculates depth from travel times; (B) nosamebathy, which eliminates identical adjacent bathymetry values; and (C) nozerobathy, which removes records with a depth value of "0.0". However, not all of the datasets included in this report were processed with one or more of these programs. If the data was not run through these programs it was reformatted using the most recent "best file" on InfoBank, often these were categorized by InfoBank as raw bathymetry files. Details about which processing steps were taken by the DAPS group can be found in the header information of the bathymetry and navigation ASCII files downloaded from InfoBank. Prior to reformatting the data into MGD77T format the "best" bathymetry and navigation files from InfoBank were edited to remove the header information and reformatted using Excel 2010 to separate the data into columns based on tabs. Next the bathymetry and navigation files were merged based on time and latitude and longitude. The combined navigation and bathymetry was saved as a .txt file. This combined bathymetry and navigation file was used as an input file into the GEODAS ReFormat to MDG77T program developed by NOAA's NGDC. The program outputs the reformatted data as a tab-delimited .m77t file. The program is available for use at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gdas/gx_announce.Html. For information regarding fields found within the MGD77T files, please refer to the publication, Hittelman and others (2010), found within the Cross-reference section of this metadata file. Each MGD77T data file also has an accompanying header file (.h77t). The fields within these header files are also defined in the aforementioned publication. Fields are populated based on InfoBank metadata records, digital data file headers, and accompanying publications (often cruise reports) for the survey. If a field is unknown or did not apply to the dataset it is intentionally left blank. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 19900619 Ending_Date: 19900712 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -125.01812 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -122.01059 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 37.83203 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 33.72801 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier Theme_Keyword: USGS:92f52e10-37cb-4e8d-8adf-74d0cd921921 Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: geoscientificinformation Theme_Keyword: oceans Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: Marine Geology Theme_Keyword: Marine Geophysics Theme_Keyword: Single-beam Bathymetry Theme_Keyword: Water Depth Theme_Keyword: Seafloor Topography Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Data Categories for Marine Planning Theme_Keyword: distributions Theme_Keyword: bathymetry and elevation Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB) Keywords Theme_Keyword: single-beam echo sounder Theme_Keyword: marine geophysics Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: single-beam echo sounder Theme_Keyword: bathymetry measurement Theme_Keyword: bathymetry Theme_Keyword: marine geophysics Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Place_Keyword: State of California Place_Keyword: North Pacific Ocean Place_Keyword: Southern California Place_Keyword: Monterey Canyon Place_Keyword: Monterey Access_Constraints: None. These data are held in the public domain. Use_Constraints: This information is not intended for navigational purposes. Read and fully comprehend the metadata prior to data use. Uses of these data should not violate the spatial resolution of the data. Where these data are used in combination with other data of different resolution, the resolution of the combined output will be limited by the lowest resolution of all the data. Acknowledge the U.S. Geological Survey in products derived from these data. Share data products developed using these data with the U.S. Geological Survey. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical Address: 600 4th Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 803-8747, ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Data_Set_Credit: Jim Gardner (Chief Scientist, USGS Western Region); Doug Masson (Chief Scientist) Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Hittelman, Allen M., Groman, Robert C., Haworth, Richard T., Holcombe, Troy L., McHendrie, Graig, Smith, Stuart M., and Metzger, Dan R. Publication_Date: 2010 Title: The marine geophysical data exchange format - MGD77 / MGD77T Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Boulder, CO Publisher: National Geophysical Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Other_Citation_Details: 25 p. Online_Linkage: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/dat/geodas/docs/mgd77.pdf Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: The validity or accuracy of bathymetry and navigation data is highly qualitative and depends on equipment and operating condition variables. Data quality is unknown, MGD77T files were formatted from InfoBank files identified as best available version. Logical_Consistency_Report: This data set is from one field activity with unknown instrument calibrations. Processed bathymetric depths were spot checked based on latitude and longitude against the Global Multi-Resolution Topography (GMRT) grid within GeoMapApp to ensure reasonable values. Completeness_Report: Start and end date/times of data according to DAPS group. Reasons for gaps in data varies by cruise, see InfoBank for more details. >Navigation Data (f-6-90-sc.051 [SINS]) >YYYYMMDDHHMMSST YYYYMMDDHHMMSST >199006191644130 199006191656140 >199006191702560 199006202250040 >199006202257000 199006210657040 >199006210714170 199006211530010 >199006211538520 199006211553000 >199006211559390 199006211559390 >199006211629490 199006212237040 >199006212243590 199006220504040 >199006220509240 199006222234040 >199006222241070 199006230310000 >199006230333310 199006230338000 >199006230356190 199006230413090 >199006230421160 199007012155000 >199007012202120 199007122032000 >YYYYMMDDHHMMSST YYYYMMDDHHMMSST >Bathymetry Data (f-6-90-sc.300_051) >YYYYMMDDHHMMSST YYYYMMDDHHMMSST >199006231900000 199006241120000 >199006241748000 199006291648000 >199006291706000 199006300836000 >199006300854000 199007011927000 >199007012324000 199007020212000 >199007021600000 199007021617000 >199007022006000 199007022036000 >199007022048000 199007022300000 >199007022312000 199007030206000 >199007030218000 199007031148000 >199007031200000 199007032042000 >199007032100000 199007071142000 >199007071154000 199007080030000 >199007080042000 199007080900000 >YYYYMMDDHHMMSST YYYYMMDDHHMMSST Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Unspecified Vertical_Positional_Accuracy: Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Unspecified Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: Below are the details about which processing steps were taken by the DAPS group that can be found in the header information of the ASCII files downloaded from InfoBank. Navigation Data >Converted to time format with year at start. > Process_Date: 19960205 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology (CMG) Contact_Person: Carolyn H. Degnan Contact_Position: Geophysicist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: USGS Pacific Coastal & Marine Science Center, 400 Natural Bridges Drive City: Santa Cruz State_or_Province: CA Postal_Code: 95060-5792 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (831) 460-7452 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (831) 427-4748 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: infobank@octopus.wr.usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Below are the details about which processing steps were taken by the DAPS group that can be found in the header information of the ASCII files downloaded from InfoBank. Bathymetry Data >10/31/1998 /lion/f/f690sc/bath/f-6-90-sc.300_051 >/bear/programs/edit/automerge/automerge > >Input was... >Converted to time format with year at start. > >09/04/90 CAROLYN DRS$DATA:[F690SC.CDI]F690SC.300;1 >DUA0:[DRS.REFMT]REFORMAT.EXE; >Raw depth (bathymetry) data >Hand-digitized meters depth from John Barber for southernmost area. > >Input was... >Converted to time format with year at start. > >time, lat, long, time(sec) to nearest nav fix, data values Process_Date: 19981031 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology (CMG) Contact_Person: Carolyn H. Degnan Contact_Position: Geophysicist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: USGS Pacific Coastal & Marine Science Center, 400 Natural Bridges Drive City: Santa Cruz State_or_Province: CA Postal_Code: 95060-5792 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (831) 460-7452 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (831) 427-4748 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: infobank@octopus.wr.usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: A navigation file identified as the best available version in InfoBank for this cruise was copied and saved as an ASCII text file to be combined with the best available bathymetry file for processing to MGD77T format. For details regarding processing steps performed on these best available files from InfoBank, please see the header information within the original files at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/ and previous processing steps. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: f-6-90-sc.051.txt Process_Date: 2012 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: f690scnav.txt Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to the U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 600 4th Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-803-8747 ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: A bathymetry file identified as the best available version in InfoBank for this cruise was copied and saved as an ASCII text file to be combined with the best available navigation file for processing to MGD77T format. For details regarding processing steps performed on these best available files from InfoBank, please see the header information within the original files at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: f-6-90-sc.300_051.txt Process_Date: 2012 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: f690scbathy.txt Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to the U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 600 4th Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-803-8747 ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The best available bathymetry and navigation text files were concatenated into one tab-delimited file using Excel 2010 and several Visual Basic Applications (VBA) macros. InfoBank header information is removed and text is broken into columns and the rows are combined based on the presence of the same values in the time and latitude and longitude columns. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: f690scbathy.txt, f690scnav.txt Process_Date: 2012 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: f690scall.txt Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to the U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 600 4th Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-803-8747 ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The combined bathymetry and navigation file was used as an input file into the GEODAS ReFormat to MDG77T program developed by NOAA's NGDC. The program outputs the reformatted data as a tab-delimited .m77t file. The program is available for use at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gdas/gx_announce.Html Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: f690scall.txt Process_Date: 2012 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: f690sc.m77t Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to the U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 600 4th Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-803-8747 ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: To create the accompanying header files (.h77t), an excel spreadsheet was supplied from NGDC with already populated required field names. For information for header field requirements and definitions see: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/dat/geodas/docs/mgd77.pdf. When creating a header file for each cruise, fields were populated in the header spreadsheet based on InfoBank metadata records, digital data file headers, and accompanying publications (often cruise reports) for the survey. If a field was unknown or did not apply to the dataset it was intentionally left blank. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/f/f690sc/html/f-6-90-sc.meta.html Process_Date: 2012 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: f690sc.h77t Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to the U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 600 4th Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-803-8747 ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Keywords section of metadata optimized for discovery in USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Data Catalog. Process_Date: 20161229 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Alan O. Allwardt Contact_Position: Contractor -- Information Specialist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 2885 Mission Street City: Santa Cruz State_or_Province: CA Postal_Code: 95060 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 831-460-7551 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 831-427-4748 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: aallwardt@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Added keywords section with USGS persistent identifier as theme keyword. Process_Date: 20201013 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross Contact_Position: Marine Geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2251 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Indirect_Spatial_Reference: Southern California, Monterey Canyon from 06/19/1990 to 07/12/1990 Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.000001 Longitude_Resolution: 0.000001 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_WGS_1984 Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.25722210100002 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: f690sc.m77t Entity_Type_Definition: MGD77T single-beam bathymetry data file for F690SC Entity_Type_Definition_Source: NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center, See Hittelman and others (2010) Cross_Reference section above for details about the MGD77T format and citation information. Attribute: Attribute_Label: SURVEY_ID Attribute_Definition: Survey identifier supplied by the contributing organization Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: This identifier varies in format and is supplied by the contributing organization Attribute: Attribute_Label: TIMEZONE Attribute_Definition: Time-zone correction Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: In our datasets, no correction was applied. All values equal 0. Attribute: Attribute_Label: DATE Attribute_Definition: Survey Date Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 19900619 Range_Domain_Maximum: 19900712 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: YYYYMMDD, (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day) Attribute: Attribute_Label: TIME Attribute_Definition: Time Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0 Range_Domain_Maximum: 2359.0667 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: hours and decimal minutes Attribute: Attribute_Label: LAT Attribute_Definition: Latitude Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 33.72801 Range_Domain_Maximum: 37.83203 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees Attribute: Attribute_Label: LON Attribute_Definition: Longitude Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: -125.01812 Range_Domain_Maximum: -122.01059 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees Attribute: Attribute_Label: POS_TYPE Attribute_Definition: Indicates how lat/lon was obtained Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Observed fix Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 3 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Interpolated fix Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: nil Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: unspecified Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute: Attribute_Label: BAT_TTIME Attribute_Definition: Bathymetry, 2-way travel time Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 5.308 Range_Domain_Maximum: 7.41333 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: seconds Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: f690sc.h77t Entity_Type_Definition: MGD77T single-beam bathymetry header file for F-6-90-SC Entity_Type_Definition_Source: NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center, See Hittelman and others (2010) Cross_Reference section above for details about the MGD77T format and citation information. Attribute: Attribute_Label: SURVEY_ID Attribute_Definition: Survey identifier supplied by the contributing organization Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: This identifier varies in format and is supplied by the contributing organization Attribute: Attribute_Label: FORMAT_77 Attribute_Definition: Format Acronym Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: PARAMS_CO Attribute_Definition: Parameters surveyed codes. Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Status of geophysical parameters for this survey. See Hittelman and others (2010) from the Cross_Reference section above for details. Attribute: Attribute_Label: INST_SRC Attribute_Definition: Source Institution Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: COUNTRY Attribute_Definition: Country Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: PLATFORM Attribute_Definition: Platform name Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: PLAT_TYPCO Attribute_Definition: Platform type code Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: nil Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Unspecified Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Surface Ship Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 2 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Submersible Ship Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 3 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Aircraft Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 4 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Buoy Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 5 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Mobile land Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 6 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Fixed land Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 7 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Deep tow Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute: Attribute_Label: PLAT_TYP Attribute_Definition: Platform type Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: CHIEF Attribute_Definition: Chief Scientist(s) Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: PROJECT Attribute_Definition: Project, cruise, leg Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: FUNDING Attribute_Definition: funding Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: DATE_DEP Attribute_Definition: survey departure date Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 19770427 Range_Domain_Maximum: 20000629 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: YYYYMMDD (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day) Attribute: Attribute_Label: PORT_DEP Attribute_Definition: port of departure Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: DATE_ARR Attribute_Definition: survey arrival date Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 19770427 Range_Domain_Maximum: 20000629 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: YYYYMMDD (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day) Attribute: Attribute_Label: PORT_ARR Attribute_Definition: port of arrival Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: NAV_INSTR Attribute_Definition: navigation instrumentation Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: POS_INFO Attribute_Definition: position determination method/ geodetic datum Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: BATH_INSTR Attribute_Definition: bathymetry instrumentation Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: BATH_ADD Attribute_Definition: additional forms of bathymetry Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: LAT_TOP Attribute_Definition: Latitude Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 16.38240 Range_Domain_Maximum: 89.98766 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees Attribute: Attribute_Label: LAT_BOTTOM Attribute_Definition: Latitude Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 16.38240 Range_Domain_Maximum: 89.98766 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees Attribute: Attribute_Label: LON_LEFT Attribute_Definition: Longitude Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 10.30551 Range_Domain_Maximum: -117.13802 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees Attribute: Attribute_Label: LON_RIGHT Attribute_Definition: Longitude Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 10.30551 Range_Domain_Maximum: -117.13802 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees Attribute: Attribute_Label: BATH_DRATE Attribute_Definition: general digitizing rate of bathymetry Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: SOUND_VEL Attribute_Definition: assumed sound velocity Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: VDATUM_CO Attribute_Definition: bathymetric vertical datum Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: In our datasets, no correction was applied. All values equal 0. Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: Bathymetry and navigation data for U.S. Geological Survey bathymetry survey F-6-90-SC in MGD77T format. Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: Attributes are obtained from MGD77T data files created from the navigation and bathymetry best files. MGD77T is the standard, defined data format used for geophysical data in the National Geophysical Data Center. The MGD77T format contains more attributes than defined here. Attributes that were null for this data were not included. Details about other attributes can be found in Hittelman and others (2010), see Cross_Reference section above for citation details. Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20201013 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to the U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: U.S. Geological Survey, 600 Fourth Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 803-8747, ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998