Continuous and optimized 3-arcsecond elevation model for the United States west coast (32-bit GeoTiff, geographic, NAD83)

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Kevin M. Befus
Originator: Kevin D. Kroeger
Publication_Date: 2017
Title:
Continuous and optimized 3-arcsecond elevation model for the United States west coast (32-bit GeoTiff, geographic, NAD83)
Edition: 1.0
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: data release
Issue_Identification: DOI:10.5066/F7W37TGK
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Other_Citation_Details:
The first link is to the publication landing page. The second link is to the page containing the data. And the final link is a direct link to download the data.
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7W37TGK
Online_Linkage: Online_Linkage: Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Kevin M. Befus
Originator: Kevin D. Kroeger
Publication_Date: 2017
Title:
Continuous and optimized 3-arcsecond elevation model for United States east and west coasts
Edition: 1.0
Series_Information:
Series_Name: data release
Issue_Identification: DOI:10.5066/F7W37TGK
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Other_Citation_Details:
Suggested citation: Befus, K.M., Kroeger, K.D., 2017, Continuous and optimized 3-arcsecond elevation model for United States east and west coasts: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7W37TGK.
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7W37TGK
Online_Linkage:
Description:
Abstract:
Investigations of coastal change and coastal resources often require continuous elevation profiles from the seafloor to coastal terrestrial landscapes. Differences in elevation data collection in the terrestrial and marine environments result in separate elevation products that may not share a vertical datum. This data release contains the assimilation of multiple elevation products into a continuous digital elevation model at a resolution of 3-arcseconds (approximately 90 meters) from the terrestrial landscape to the seafloor for the contiguous U.S., focused on the coastal interface. All datasets were converted to a consistent horizontal datum, the North American Datum of 1983, but the native vertical datum for each dataset was not adjusted. Artifacts in the source elevation products were replaced with other available elevation products when possible, corrected using various spatial tools, or otherwise marked for future correction.
Purpose:
The purpose of this data release is to provide a new continuous elevation model of U.S. coastal environments from onshore to offshore for various coastal applications. This dataset was created to primarily supply a smooth coastal interface to inform groundwater models requiring continuous elevations from onshore to offshore. Alternative coastal elevation datasets either lack elevation data for both terrestrial topography and marine bathymetry, provide data for a specific region within the continental United States (i.e., not continuous for either the east or west coast), or contain sufficient artifacts from its creation to reduce the utility of the dataset for the purposes of providing constraints for coastal groundwater models. This data release contains the assimilation of multiple elevation products into a continuous digital elevation model at a resolution of 3-arcseconds (approximately 90 meters) from the terrestrial landscape to the seafloor for the contiguous U.S.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 2016
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -125.306216
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -115.998716
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 49.312078
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 30.999578
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier
Theme_Keyword: USGS:57ebe8dbe4b09082500ef4ad
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: oceans
Theme_Keyword: elevation
Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Theme_Keyword: USGS
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey
Theme_Keyword: Elevation
Theme_Keyword: Bathymetry
Theme_Keyword: Digital Bathymetry
Theme_Keyword: Sea Floor
Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Theme_Keyword: CMGP
Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC
Theme_Keyword: Gridded Data
Theme_Keyword: Depth
Theme_Keyword: Sea Floor Topography
Theme_Keyword: Morphology
Theme_Keyword: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association
Theme_Keyword: NOAA
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus
Theme_Keyword: digital elevation models
Theme_Keyword: geospatial datasets
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: California
Place_Keyword: Oregon
Place_Keyword: Washington
Place_Keyword: Monterey Bay
Place_Keyword: San Francisco Bay
Place_Keyword: Gulf of the Farallones
Place_Keyword: Puget Sound
Access_Constraints: none
Use_Constraints:
Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey as the originator of the dataset. These data are not for navigational use.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Kevin D. Kroeger
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2270
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: kkroeger@usgs.gov
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name: Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
Color image of terrain model for contiguous U.S. west coast marine coastlines and portions of Canada and Mexico. The source files are the 32-bit GeoTiff files associated with this data release.
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: PNG
Data_Set_Credit:
Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the source of this information.
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1 (64-bit);ESRI ArcGIS 10.3.1.4959;Python 2.7.11;Anaconda 2.3.0 (64-bit);SciPy 0.17.0;NumPy 1.11.0; PyShp 1.2.1;Shapely 1.5.12;GDAL 1.11.1;Hydroffice.bag 0.2.15
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
Digital elevation data from multiple sources were compared and those of highest quality and consistency for a given region were used.
Logical_Consistency_Report:
The individual and merged datasets were checked for accuracy in the coastal area using coloring schemes that highlighted elevations near sea level (e.g., -10 meters to 10 meters). Beyond this elevation range, the accuracy of the merged product is inherited from the underlying datasets.
Completeness_Report:
Data set is considered complete for the information presented. The coastal margins of the contiguous United States are included in this data release as two separate 32-bit GeoTiff rasters. Elevation data inland of the current data release can be supplemented with the U.S. Geological Survey National Elevation Dataset or other terrestrial elevation products. Bathymetric beyond the extents of this data release can be supplemented with the NOAA Coastal Relief Model or other bathymetric products. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
The horizontal accuracy of the terrain model inherits the horizontal accuracy from the source datasets. The horizontal accuracy is superceded in the final terrain models by the aggregation procedure that reduces the resolution of the original datasets to the final resolution.
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
The vertical accuracy of the terrain model inherits the vertical accuracy from the source datasets. The vertical accuracy is superceded in the final terrain models by the aggregation procedure that reduces the resolution of the original datasets to the final resolution. Where possible, datasets with a vertical datum of the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) were used. However, many datasets contain either no datum information or do not consolidate to a single datum. This conflict in vertical datums is one reason why the data release contains a horizontal resolution of 1-arcsecond (or about 100 meters): the real variability and range of elevation across the area of one raster cell is often larger than the offset of a particular datum choice (roughly 0 to 2 meters). Thus, while the resolution of the data is high in the terrestrial setting (reported by U.S. Geological Survey National Elevation Dataset as 0.01 meters), the bathmetric vertical accuracy is spatially variable and relative to the tidal range in a particular area. Thus, the vertical accuraccy of the final product is ~0.01 to ~2 meters.
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Publication_Date: unknown
Title: US Coastal Relief Model - Southern California Version 2
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Centers for Environmental Information
Publisher: NOAA
Other_Citation_Details:
The vertical datum was not specified in the creation of the dataset from multiple bathymetric products with variable tidal datums. The large spatial resolution leads to cells that span elevations equivalient to the datum uncertainty introduced by the tidal range, making the specification of a vertical datum from a mean tidal position impossible. The horizontal datum is NAD 1983. The original cell size is 1-arcsecond. Note that the data files for this reference were a zipped directory containing .grd format rasters, but the linkage incorrectly indicated the data were in NetCDF format on the retrieval date. Original disclaimer: "THIS DATA IS NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION. Although these data are of high quality and useful for planning and modeling purposes, they do not necessarily reflect current conditions, nor do they depict data which is on a nautical chart. For navigation please refer to the NOS nautical chart series."
Online_Linkage: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/grddas06/grddas06v2.htm
Type_of_Source_Media: Raster
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 20160601
Source_Currentness_Reference: retrieval date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: southern_calif_crm_v2_netcdf.zip
Source_Contribution:
All of the .grd files in the .zip were merged into a topography and bathymetry product. Elevations less than or equal to 0 meters were used to create the final elevation model.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Publication_Date: unknown
Title: US Coastal Relief Model - Central Pacific
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Centers for Environmental Information
Publisher: NOAA
Other_Citation_Details:
The vertical datum was not specified in the creation of the dataset from multiple bathymetric products with variable tidal datums. The large spatial resolution leads to cells that span elevations equivalient to the datum uncertainty introduced by the tidal range, making the specification of a vertical datum from a mean tidal position impossible. The horizontal datum is NAD 1983. The original cell size is 3-arcseconds. Original disclaimer: "THIS DATA IS NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION. Although these data are of high quality and useful for planning and modeling purposes, they do not necessarily reflect current conditions, nor do they depict data which is on a nautical chart. For navigation please refer to the NOS nautical chart series."
Online_Linkage: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/grddas07/grddas07.htm
Type_of_Source_Media: Raster
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 20160601
Source_Currentness_Reference: retrieval date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: central_pacific_crm_v1.flt
Source_Contribution:
All of the central_pacific_crm_v1 dataset was used for outlining artifacts in DEM_artfacts.shp. Only cells with an elevation equal to or less than 0 meters in the dataset datum were retained in the final topographic and bathymetry product. central_pacific_crm_v1 data were not directly used for areas with merging or channel type artifacts nor where other elevation data were used to replace central_pacific_crm_v1 data, outlined in DEM_artifacts.shp.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Publication_Date: unknown
Title: US Coastal Relief Model - Northwest Pacific
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Centers for Environmental Information
Publisher: NOAA
Other_Citation_Details:
The vertical datum was not specified in the creation of the dataset from multiple bathymetric products with variable tidal datums. The large spatial resolution leads to cells that span elevations equivalient to the datum uncertainty introduced by the tidal range, making the specification of a vertical datum from a mean tidal position impossible. The horizontal datum is NAD 1983. The original cell size is 3-arcseconds. Original disclaimer: "THIS DATA IS NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION. Although these data are of high quality and useful for planning and modeling purposes, they do not necessarily reflect current conditions, nor do they depict data which is on a nautical chart. For navigation please refer to the NOS nautical chart series."
Online_Linkage: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/grddas08/grddas08.htm
Type_of_Source_Media: Raster
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 20160601
Source_Currentness_Reference: retrieval date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: nw_pacific_crm_v1.flt
Source_Contribution:
All of the nw_pacific_crm_v1 dataset was used for outlining artifacts in DEM_artfacts.shp. Only cells with an elevation equal to or less than 0 meters in the dataset datum were retained in the final topographic and bathymetry product. nw_pacific_crm_v1 data were not directly used for areas with merging or channel type artifacts nor where other elevation data were used to replace nw_pacific_crm_v1 data, outlined in DEM_artifacts.shp.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: United States Geological Survey
Publication_Date: 2013
Title: U.S. Geological Survey national elevation dataset
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Online_Linkage: http://ned.usgs.gov/
Type_of_Source_Media: Raster
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 2013
Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: individual NED tiles
Source_Contribution:
1 by 1 degree seamless sections of the National Elevation Dataset (NED) were downloaded for U.S. coastal topography included within the potential area required for groundwater models of coastal areas. Elevations greater than 8 meters in the final product are all from NED data. Elevations between 8 and 0 meters may be NED values but the source depends on the availability of bathymetry for each grid cell.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Canadian Hydrographic Service
Publication_Date: 2014
Title: 500m Bathymetry
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Canadian Hydrographic Service
Publisher: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Other_Citation_Details:
The horizontal datum for the dataset is global Mercator (Mercator_1SP,EPSG 9804). The vertical datum is "Unknown". The cell size is 500 meters. Additional information can be found in the dataset metadata (http://geoportal.gc.ca/data/500m_Bathymetry/092G_Metadata.xml). DISCLAIMER: "This product has been produced by or for the U.S. Geological Survey and includes data provided by the Canadian Hydrographic Service of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The incorporation of data sourced from the Canadian Hydrographic Service of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans within this product does NOT constitute an endorsement by the Canadian Hydrographic Service or the Department of Fisheries and Oceans of this product."
Online_Linkage: http://geoportal.gc.ca/data/500m_Bathymetry/092G.bag
Type_of_Source_Media: Raster
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 2014
Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: 092G.bag
Source_Contribution:
This dataset was used to supply values where the merged CRM and NED datasets were missing bathymetry values.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 1. Download CRM regions: Coastal Relief Model (CRM) data were downloaded in binary float format except for southern California, which was downloaded as a zip folder of .grd files. The southern California individual .grd files were merged in alphabetical order using the ArcGIS 10.3 Data Management\Raster\Raster Dataset\Mosaic to new raster tool to a 32-bit float GeoTiff using a mosaic method order of "LAST" and all other options as defaults. This process step, and all subsequent process steps, were performed by the same person: Kevin M. Befus.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: southern_calif_crm_v2_netcdf.zip
Process_Date: 2016
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: socal_pacific_crm_v2.tif
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Kevin M. Befus
Contact_Organization: University of Wyoming
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: University of Wyoming
Address: 1000 E. University Ave.
Address: Dept. 3295
City: Laramie
State_or_Province: WY
Postal_Code: 82071
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 307-766-2390
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: kbefus@uwyo.edu
Contact_Instructions:
Kevin is currently with the University of Wyoming as an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Architectural Engineering Department. His contact information has been updated to reflect this.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 2. Download NED tiles: Individual 1-arcsecond National Elevation Dataset (NED) 1 degree by 1 degree tiles were downloaded within the extents of the CRM data. Each tile was downloaded and unzipped in Python 2.7.11 using the standard libraries zipfile and urllib2. For the U.S. east and west coast separately, the NED tiles were merged into a single NED DEM using the ArcGIS 10.3 Data Management\Raster\Raster Dataset\Mosaic to new raster tool to a 32-bit float GeoTiff using a mosaic method order of "LAST", an output cell size of 3-arcseconds, and all other options as defaults. No horizontal datum transformation was required for NED data.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: individual NED tiles
Process_Date: 2016
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: west_NED.tif
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 3. DEM inspection and artifact identification: Visual inspection of NED and CRM products revealed numerous artifacts associated with the creation of each dataset, primarily due to merging 1 degree x 1 degree subsets of the elevation data or due to interpolation in data-poor regions. Areas where grid merging created offsets in elevation were manually delineated with polygon features (DEM_artifacts.shp), indicating whether the merging problem was "terrestrial" (elevation greater than 0 meters), "offshore" (elevation of less than 0 meters), or "both". Other areas where data quality was questionable were also indicated with polygon features and assigned a type of "Merging", "Interp", or "Channel". Not all areas where artifacts were present were delineated. The primary focus of the artifact delineation was between -50 to 50 meters elevation. Only those interpolation artifacts that could be replaced by other data, were unavoidable/unfillable using other datasets, or were distinguishable from nearby bathymetry or topography were delineated and saved in DEM_artifacts.shp.
Process_Date: 2016
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: DEM_artifacts.shp
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 4. Supplementary data download: Additional bathymetry data were downloaded to replace the cells where the NED and CRM data contained artifacts or had no bathymetry data. These data were downloaded from the Canadian Hydrographic Service. The source name of this step corresponds to the source identifier name and is the original downloaded dataset.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: 092G.bag
Process_Date: 2016
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 5. Central and Northwestern Pacific region corrections: In the central_pacific_crm_v1.flt and nw_pacific_crm_v1.flt, coastal inlets and low elevation river channels with elevation artifacts were filled. First, the artifacts were identified as type = "channel" artifacts in DEM_artifacts.shp, although these artifacts were primarily associated with merging CRM 1 degree cells, and given a flag attribute to "fill" (Action="fill"). Then, the original CRM .flt's were individually filled using the ArcGIS 10.3 Spatial Analyst\Hydrology\Fill tool with default settings, yielding temporary rasters "nwp_filled" and "cp_filled". The features with the channel artifacts were then used to extract the filled elevation data by mask and were merged with the original CRM DEMs using the Extract by mask and Raster calculator merging procedure in Step 5 with the output extents set to the CRM .flt files.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: central_pacific_crm_v1.flt
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: nw_pacific_crm_v1.flt
Process_Date: 2016
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: central_pacific_crm_vc.tif
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: nw_pacific_crm_vc.tif
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 6. Add Vancouver bathymetry: To extend the bathymetric data smoothly into Canada on the west coast, an additional bathymetric dataset was required. The Vancouver data, 092G.bag, was converted to GeoTiff using Hydroffice.bag 0.2.15 BAGFile command to load the data and elevation.Elevation2Gdal to export the GeoTiff file ("CHS_Vancouver_500m_proj.tif"). The cooridinate system for CHS_Vancouver_500m_proj.tif was assigned with the ArcGIS 10.3 Data Management\Projections and Transformations\Define Projection tool with the Coordinate System specified as World_Mercator. CHS_Vancouver_500m_proj.tif was projected to the WGS_1984 geographic coordinate system as a temporary raster ("CHS_Vancouver_500m.tif") using ArcGIS 10.3 Data Management\Projections and Transformations\Raster\Project Raster tool using an output cell size of 3-arcseconds, BILINEAR interpolation for the resampling technique, and otherwise default values. CHS_Vancouver_500m.tif was first set to null above 0 meters elevation and then merged with nw_pacific_crm_vc.tif. CHS_Vancouver_500m.tif values were used directly for cells where nw_pacific_crm_vc.tif was null. The merge used the ArcGIS 10.3 Raster Calculator command "nw_pacific_crm_vc2.tif = Con(IsNull(SetNull(CHS_Vancouver_500m.tif greater than 0,CHS_Vancouver_500m.tif)),Con(IsNull(nw_pacific_crm_vc.tif),CHS_Vancouver_500m.tif,nw_pacific_crm_vc.tif),CHS_Vancouver_500m.tif)" with the cell size set to 1-arcsecond, the output coordinate system to the same as nw_pacific_crm_vc.tif, and the output extent to the union of inputs in the environmental settings. Raster Calculator automatically resampled CHS_Vancouver_500m.tif to match the output cell size. Low data density at the southern end of Vancouver Island in the nw_pacific_crm_vc2.tif led to unavoidable artifacts that persist to the final raster product, west_cdem_v1.tif.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: 092G.bag
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: nw_pacific_crm_vc.tif
Process_Date: 2016
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: nw_pacific_crm_vc2.tif
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 7. Bathymetry merge: After these region-specific corrections, the CRM region-based rasters were merged into two separate coastal datasets for the U.S. east and west coasts. The ArcGIS 10.3 Data Management\Raster\Raster Dataset\Mosaic to new raster tool was used to merge the CRM region-based rasters to temporary rasters ("east_CRM_WGS.tif","west_CRM_WGS.tif") with an output cell size of 3-arcseconds and a merge order of "FIRST". The order of the east coast regions was geographically in order along the coast from the northeast region to the western Gulf of Mexico. The order of the west coast regions was from south to north. The east_CRM_WGS.tif and west_CRM_WGS.tif rasters were transformed into the same horizontal datum as the NED data (NAD 1983 from WGS 1984) using the ArcGIS 10.3 Data Management\Projections and Transformations\Raster\Project Raster tool with a cell size of 1-arcsecond and otherwise default values.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: central_pacific_crm_vc.tif
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: nw_pacific_crm_vc2.tif
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: socal_pacific_crm_v2.tif
Process_Date: 2016
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: west_CRM_NAD.tif
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 8. Correct CRM merging: The final step for the CRM bathymetry data was to smooth any merging artifacts present in the merged CRM DEMs. For CRM grid cells within features from DEM_artifacts.shp that indicated a merging error in an offshore area where the dataset had an elevation of less than or equal to 0 meters (type = "Merging", Loc="offshore" or "both"), the SciPy 0.17.0 function griddata was used in Python 2.7.11 to bilinearly interpolate over the erroneous values (method="linear"). Grid cells with centers inside a stitching error feature had their values set to NaN (not a number), and the grid cell locations were then used as "unknown" value locations to receive the interpolated values. PyShp 1.2.1, Shapely 1.5.12, GDAL 1.11.1 were used in Python 2.7.11 to select the grid cells corresponding to the stitching artifacts. For the interpolation step, stitching errors above 0 meters elevation in the CRM data were not changed unless the stitching feature contained the additional flag of "higher" (DEM_artifacts.shp, Action="higher"), which set the maximum interpolation elevation to 5 meters instead of 0 meters. This "higher" option was only used for the seam between the northwest Pacific region and the Vancouver bathymetry data.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: west_CRM_NAD.tif
Process_Date: 2016
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: west_CRM.tif
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 9. Merge elevation products: Merging the CRM and NED data required multiple steps to extract the highest quality data from each source while ensuring a smooth boundary across the continuum between bathymetric and topographic elevations, chosen for visual purposes as -10 to 10 meters. The individual steps for the merge are expanded as substeps. Two differences between the CRM and NED datasets led to the development of this multiple step merging procedure. First, NED data are always based on a vertical datum of NAVD 88, but NED data are nominally assigned a value of 0.0 meters elevation for anywhere with an elevation less than or equal to 0 meters. However, many anomalous, non-zero values persist for marine or other coastal waters due to the source datasets as well as other processing used in NED creation. Thus, only using a cutoff of 0 meters elevation to snap CRM bathymetry data into NED will result in anomolous "islands". Additionally, in some coastal waterbodies, NED may have positive elevations, whereas CRM contains bathymetry with elevations below sea level. Secondly, CRM data above 0 meters elevation are only whole numbers with no non-zero decimals and also appear smoothed, potentially due to a processing step in CRM creation. This rounding in CRM smears the interface between bathymetric and topographic data (i.e., 0 to 1 meters) and creates the problem that coastal areas with elevations below 0.5 meters may have been assigned to 0 meters. Thus, no single value in neither NED nor CRM allowed the extraction and insertion of one dataset into the other. Instead, CRM values equal to and above 0 meters elevation were assigned values from NED. Then, NED elevations less than 8 meters above sea level (0 meters, NAVD88) were replaced with the edited CRM values. This assigned bathymetric data in coastal areas where it was available in CRM without relying on only one of the datasets to specify the coastal boundary (e.g., a coastal pond with a water elevation of 3 meters in NED can be supplied with CRM bathymetry data so long as CRM elevation is less than 0 meters).
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: west_NED.tif
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: west_CRM.tif
Process_Date: 2016
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: west_cdem.tif
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 9a. Fill NED data with CRM: CRM values were assigned where the NED data were null (i.e., in areas far offshore) using ArcGIS 10.3 and the Raster Calculator command "west_NED_filled.tif = Con(IsNull(west_NED.tif),west_CRM.tif,west_NED.tif)" with the output extent set to the union of inputs in Environment Settings.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: west_NED.tif
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: west_CRM.tif
Process_Date: 2016
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: west_NED_filled.tif
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 9b. Set CRM topography to null: CRM values were set to null values if they equaled or were above 0 meters of elevation using ArcGIS 10.3 and the Raster Calculator command "west_CRM_null.tif = SetNull(west_CRM.tif > 0 ,west_CRM.tif)" with default Environment Settings.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: west_CRM.tif
Process_Date: 2016
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: west_CRM_null.tif
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 9c. Fill CRM_null data with NED_filled: The filled NED elevations were used to assign elevation values to the nulled CRM resulting in a temporary raster with original CRM bathymetry below 0 meters elevation and NED elevations otherwise. This step used ArcGIS 10.3 and the Raster Calculator command "west_CRM_null_filled.tif = Con(IsNull(west_CRM_null.tif),west_NED_filled.tif,west_CRM_null.tif)" with the output extent set to the union of inputs in Environment Settings.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: west_NED_filled.tif
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: west_CRM_null.tif
Process_Date: 2016
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: west_CRM_null_filled.tif
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 9d. Merge adjusted CRM and NED datasets: The adjusted CRM and NED datasets were merged by extracting low elevation areas from the NED-filled CRM raster and higher elevations from the CRM-filled NED raster using ArcGIS 10.3 and the Raster Calculator command "west_cdem.tif = Con(west_NED_filled.tif < 8,west_CRM_null_filled.tif,west_NED_filled.tif)" with default Environment Settings.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: west_NED_filled.tif
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: west_CRM_null_filled.tif
Process_Date: 2016
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: west_cdem.tif
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Step 10. Extract coastal elevations: A polygonal mask was manually drawn around the extent of the planned coastal groundwater models ("dem_mask.shp"). The mask was extended offshore a considerable distance to allow the dataset to be used for other purposes. No consistent offshore extent was used (i.e., did not use a bathymetric contour or a buffer from shore). Instead, the mask was drawn a relatively consistent distance offshore that still contained bathymetric data. The terrestrial extent was chosen solely based on the potential groundwater model extents. The extraction was achieved by using ArcGIS 10.3 Spatial Analyst\Extraction\Extract by mask tool with default settings using dem_mask.shp as the mask. No data values in west_cdem_v1.tif and east_cdem_v1.tif represent both where the mask did not extract elevations and where the underlying datasets contained no data values or were not downloaded for a particular area. Both NED and CRM data outside of the mask can be joined to west_cdem_v1.tif and east_cdem_v1.tif using either the Raster Calculator conditional merging procedure in Step 5 or using the Mosaic tools in ArcGIS or software and environments capable of handling GeoTiff data.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: west_cdem.tif
Process_Date: 2016
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: dem_mask.shp
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: west_cdem_v1.tif
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:
Indirect_Spatial_Reference: Contiguous U.S. west coast and portions of Mexico and Canada.
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Raster
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Geographic:
Latitude_Resolution: 1.0
Longitude_Resolution: 1.0
Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal seconds
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.2572221
Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Altitude_System_Definition:
Altitude_Datum_Name:
Variable. North American Vertical Datum of 1988 above an elevation of 0 m (source: NED). Bathymetric data sources had different vertical datums that were not adjusted prior to merging due to the relatively large grid cell size.
Altitude_Resolution: 2
Altitude_Distance_Units: meters
Altitude_Encoding_Method:
Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: Elevation
Entity_Type_Definition: Elevation data
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: Other
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Value
Attribute_Definition: Elevation
Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: -3790.8
Range_Domain_Maximum: 4392.0
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Meters
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: Denver Federal Center, Building 810, Mail Stop 302
City: Denver
State_or_Province: CO
Postal_Code: 80225
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-888-275-8747
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sciencebase@usgs.gov
Resource_Description:
west_cdem_v1.zip: ZIP file contains the 32-bit GeoTiff and associated world file (.tfw), a browse thumbnail, and the associated FGDC metadata.
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: GeoTiff
Format_Version_Number: ArcGIS 10.3.1.4959
Format_Specification: 32-bit GeoTiff
Format_Information_Content:
This zipfile (7-Zip v9.20) contains a 32-bit GeoTiff, associated GeoTiff components, a browse thumbnail .png image, and metadata for west_cdem_v1.tif.
File_Decompression_Technique: Use 7-Zip, WinZip, pkUnzip, or similar to unzip.
Transfer_Size: 367
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Online_Option:
Computer_Contact_Information: Access_Instructions:
The first link is a direct link to download the data. The second link is to the page containing the data. And the final link is to the publication landing page.
Fees: none
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20211116
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Kevin M. Befus
Contact_Organization: University of Wyoming
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: University of Wyoming
Address: 1000 E. University Ave.
Address: Dept. 3295
City: Laramie
State_or_Province: WY
Postal_Code: 82071
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 307-766-2390
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: whsc_data_contact@usgs.gov
Contact_Instructions:
Kevin is currently with the University of Wyoming as an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Architectural Engineering Department. His contact information has been updated to reflect this. The metadata contact email address is a generic address in the event the metadata contact is no longer with the USGS or the email is otherwise invalid.
Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

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