Tracklines of a multibeam survey of the sea floor of the Atlantic Beach artificial reef (polyline shapefile, geographic, WGS 84)

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Identification_Information
Data_Quality_Information
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
Spatial_Reference_Information
Entity_and_Attribute_Information
Distribution_Information
Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
Originator: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Publication_Date: 2017
Title:

Tracklines of a multibeam survey of the sea floor of the Atlantic Beach artificial reef (polyline shapefile, geographic, WGS 84)

Edition: 1.0
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Series_Information:

Series_Name: data release
Issue_Identification: DOI:10.5066/F7J38RFK

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program

Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7J38RFK
Online_Linkage:

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/599f2f05e4b0e5eb065ec7a4

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Bradford Butman
Originator: William W. Danforth
Originator: John E. Hughes Clarke
Originator: Richard P. Signell
Publication_Date: 2017
Title:

Bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor of the Atlantic Beach artificial reef, offshore of New York

Edition: 1.0
Series_Information:

Series_Name: data release
Issue_Identification: DOI:10.5066/F7J38RFK

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Other_Citation_Details:

Suggested citation: Butman, Bradford, Danforth, W.W., Clarke, J.E.H., and Signell, R.P., 2017, Bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor of the Atlantic Beach artificial reef, offshore of New York: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7J38RFK.

Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7J38RFK

Description:

Abstract:

The Atlantic Beach artificial reef, located on the sea floor 3 nautical miles south of Atlantic Beach, New York in about 20 meters water depth, was built to create habitat for marine life. The reef was originally created by placing heavy materials such as tires, automobile bodies and other vehicles, barges, and rock from a dredging project on the sea floor. In 2000, the U.S. Geological Survey surveyed the area using a Simrad EM1000 multibeam echosounder mounted on the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) ship Frederick G. Creed. The purpose of this multibeam survey, done in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers when the Creed was in the New York region in April 2000, was to map the bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor in the area of the Atlantic Beach artificial reef. The data from this survey are bathymetry, backscatter intensity, and navigation trackline.

Purpose:

The navigation polyline shapefile shows the track followed by the Canadian Coast Guard ship Frederick G. Creed in the 2000 survey of the Atlantic Beach artificial reef. The shapefile can be used to identify line spacing, trackline orientation, and the location of data collection. The attributes record the latitude, longitude, date, and time at the start of each line. The tracklines run approximately east-west parallel to the local bathymetry.

Supplemental_Information:

Other datasets from the 2000 survey of the Atlantic Beach artificial reef may be found in Butman and others (2017) (see larger work citation). For more information on the field activity that collected these data, see the field activity page https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2000-015-FA.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20000420

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -73.743362
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -73.692773
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 40.541817
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 40.523638

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier
Theme_Keyword: USGS:599f2f05e4b0e5eb065ec7a4

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Theme_Keyword: tracklines
Theme_Keyword: polyline shapefile
Theme_Keyword: multibeam
Theme_Keyword: sea floor mapping
Theme_Keyword: Simrad EM1000
Theme_Keyword: Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) ship Frederick G. Creed
Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC field activity 2000-015-FA
Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC)
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Theme_Keyword: USACE New York District
Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP)
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Theme_Keyword: Canadian Hydrographic Service
Theme_Keyword: University of New Brunswick

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: oceans
Theme_Keyword: location

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus
Theme_Keyword: navigational data
Theme_Keyword: marine geophysics

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Place_Keyword: Atlantic Beach artificial reef
Place_Keyword: New York Bight
Place_Keyword: Middle Atlantic Bight
Place_Keyword: mid-Atlantic Bight
Place_Keyword: New Jersey
Place_Keyword: New York
Place_Keyword: North Atlantic Ocean

Stratum:

Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Stratum_Keyword: sea floor
Stratum_Keyword: seafloor

Temporal:

Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Temporal_Keyword: 2000

Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints: None
Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Bradford Butman

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x 2212
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bbutman@usgs.gov

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name:

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/599f2f05e4b0e5eb065ec7a4?name=abreef_nav_browsegraphic.jpg

Browse_Graphic_File_Description:

Browse graphic of the tracklines of a multibeam survey of the sea floor of the Atlantic Beach artificial reef.

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4095

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Publication_Date: Unknown
Title: Artificial reef locations
Online_Linkage: http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/71702.html

Data_Quality_Information:

Logical_Consistency_Report:

All navigation data were processed in the same manner. The Atlantic Beach survey was assigned a block of line numbers by the Canadian Hydrographic Service beginning with 2033. Line 2061 is about 800 m short on the eastern end which results in a strip of no data between adjacent lines 2059 and 2063.

Completeness_Report:

All tracklines from the multibeam survey of the Atlantic Beach artificial reef are included in the navigation shapefile.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

These are the Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) navigation points for the DGPS receiver; they are accurate to +/- 3 meters, horizontally.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Canadian Hydrographic Service
Originator: William W. Danforth
Originator: John E. Hughes Clarke
Publication_Date: Unpublished Material
Title: raw multibeam data

Type_of_Source_Media: disc
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20000420
Ending_Date: 20000420

Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: raw multibeam data
Source_Contribution:

The multibeam data were collected with a Simrad EM1000 multibeam echosounder mounted on the Canadian Coast Guard ship Frederick G. Creed. The Atlantic Beach artificial reef area was surveyed in a Zamboni pattern (for efficient turns at high speed) with lines running east-west. The Zamboni pattern yields blocks of eastward-run lines adjacent to blocks of westward-run lines. Navigation was by means of differential GPS. Operation of the Simrad EM1000 was carried out by hydrographers of the Canadian Hydrographic Service. The data were collected on Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center field activity 2000-015-FA (https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fa=2000-015-FA).

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

A suite of processing software, called SwathEd, developed by the Ocean Mapping Group at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, was used to process and grid the multibeam data, and to produce images. Navigation data were edited on-screen using the SwathEd routine jview to remove undesirable points, including turns at the ends of survey lines. Jview also rejects stray GPS fixes outside of the survey area, as set by the operator (see process steps for bathymetry available from the larger work citation).

Process_Date: 2000
Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: William W. Danforth

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2274
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bdanforth@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

1. Reformat ASCII navigation data collected by the DGPS receiver into an Excel csv formatted ASCII file using the UNIX awk utility. Spacing between points in the trackline is defined by time (1-second intervals).
2. Import the csv file as points into ArcGIS using the Import XY data under the tools menu.
3. Export the point data to a shapefile by right clicking on the point data in the data view window and selecting the Export Data function.
4. Reformat the point shapefile into a line shapefile using the VAC Extras tool -> FeatConv -> Points to line v2 bringing over the first occurrence of line number, longitude, latitude, year, Julian day, hour, minute, and second.

Process_Date: 2009
Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: William W. Danforth

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2274
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bdanforth@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Added keywords section with USGS persistent identifier as theme keyword.

Process_Date: 20200807
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:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: String
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 34

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: 298.257224

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: abreef_nav
Entity_Type_Definition: Trackline number for multibeam survey (beginning with 2033)
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FID
Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number
Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape
Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry
Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LineNum
Attribute_Definition: Trackline number assigned by Canadian Hydrographic Service
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 2033
Range_Domain_Maximum: 2066

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Lon
Attribute_Definition: Longitude in decimal degree (start of line)
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: -73.742457
Range_Domain_Maximum: -73.693155

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Lat
Attribute_Definition: Latitude in decimal degrees (start of line)
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 40.523887
Range_Domain_Maximum: 40.541467

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Year
Attribute_Definition: Year of data acquisition
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 2000
Range_Domain_Maximum: 2000

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: JulianDay
Attribute_Definition:

Julian Day, the integer number representing the interval of time in days since January 1 of the year of collection

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 111
Range_Domain_Maximum: 111

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Hour
Attribute_Definition: Hour of the start of line (in GMT)
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 5
Range_Domain_Maximum: 12

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Min
Attribute_Definition: Minute of start of line (in GMT)
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 59.0

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Sec
Attribute_Definition: Second of start of line (in GMT)
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.05
Range_Domain_Maximum: 59.0

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

This polyline shapefile shows the tracklines for the multibeam survey of the sea floor of the Atlantic Beach artificial reef.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: U.S. Geological Survey

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Federal Center
Address: Building 810
Address: Mail Stop 302
City: Denver
State_or_Province: CO
Postal_Code: 80225

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-888-275-8747

Resource_Description:

abreef_nav.zip: contains the shapefile of trackline navigation (abreef_nav.shp), other shapefile components, browse graphic (abreef_nav_browsegraphic.jpg), and associated FGDC-compliant metadata (CSDGM format)

Distribution_Liability:

Neither the U.S. Government, the Department of the Interior, nor the U.S. Geological Survey, nor any of their employees, contractors, or subcontractors, make any warranty, express or implied, nor assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, nor represent that its use would not infringe on privately owned rights. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of these data or related materials. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: shapefile
Format_Version_Number: ArcGIS 9.3
Format_Specification: Esri shapefile
Format_Information_Content:

Esri shapefile of navigation and associated metadata of a multibeam survey of the Atlantic Beach artificial reef compressed in a zip file.

File_Decompression_Technique: zip
Transfer_Size: 0.2

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/599f2f05e4b0e5eb065ec7a4

Network_Resource_Name:

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/599f2f05e4b0e5eb065ec7a4?name=abreef_nav.zip

Network_Resource_Name:

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/599f2f05e4b0e5eb065ec7a4

Network_Resource_Name: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7J38RFK

Access_Instructions:

The network resources offer the options of downloading all the files, individual files, accessing the landing page of the data, or accessing the main landing page of the data release.

Fees: none

Technical_Prerequisites:

The navigation polyline shapefile from the Atlantic Beach artificial reef survey is available in a zip file (abreef_nav.zip). To utilize these data, the user must have software capable of uncompressing the WinZip file.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20240319
Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Bradford Butman

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2212
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: whsc_data_contact@usgs.gov
Contact_Instructions:

The metadata contact email address is a generic address in the event the person is no longer with USGS. (updated on 20240319)

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

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