Metadata: Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 2015 Title: Bottom Photographs in JPEG format acquired using a SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) within Barnegat Bay New Jersey by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2012, and 2013 Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data Series_Information: Series_Name: Data Series Issue_Identification: 937 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/10.3133/ds937 Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0937/downloads/hyperlink_images/bottom_photos/2013_030_FA_BP.zip Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0937/downloads/hyperlink_images/bottom_photos/2012_003_FA_BP.zip Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0937/downloads/hyperlink_images/bottom_photos/2013_014_FA_BP.zip Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Brian D. Andrews Originator: Jennifer L. Miselis Originator: William W. Danforth Originator: Barry J. Irwin Originator: Charles R. Worley Originator: Emile M. Bergeron Originator: Dann S. Blackwood Publication_Date: 2015 Title: Marine geophysical data collected in a shallow back-barrier estuary: Barnegat Bay, New Jersey Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Data Series Issue_Identification: 937 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds937 Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0937/ Description: Abstract: Water quality in the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary along the New Jersey coast is the focus of a multidisciplinary research project begun in 2011 by the U.S. Geological Survey in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. This narrow estuary is the drainage for the Barnegat Watershed and flushed by just three inlets connecting it to the Atlantic Ocean, is experiencing degraded water quality, algal blooms, loss of seagrass, and increases in oxygen -depletion events, seaweed, stinging nettles, and brown tide. The scale of the estuary and the scope of the problems within it necessitate a multidisciplinary approach that includes characterizing its physical characteristics (for example, depth, magnitude and direction of tidal currents, distribution of seafloor and subseafloor sediment) and modeling how the physical characteristics interact to affect the estuary's water quality. Scientists from USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program offices in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and St. Petersburg, Florida, began mapping the seafloor of the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary in November 2011 and completed in September 2013. With funding from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and logistical support from the USGS New Jersey Water Science Center, they collected data with a suite of geophysical tools, including swath bathymetric sonar for measuring seafloor depth, a sidescan sonar for collecting acoustic-backscatter data (which provides information about seafloor texture and sediment type), subbottom profiler for imaging sediment layers beneath the floor of the estuary, and sediment samples with bottom photographs for ground validation of the acoustic data. More information about the four surveys that were part of this project can be found at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Field Activity web pages: 2011-041-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2011-041-FA 2012-003-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2012-003-FA 2013-014-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2013-014-FA 2013-030-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2013-030-FA Purpose: The purpose of these bottom photographs is to ground-truth, or validate the marine geophysical (acoustic) collected in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20120410 Ending_Date: 20130918 Currentness_Reference: Ground condition of SEABOSS sampling dates at the end of three surveys, 20120410-20120412, 20130328-20130329, 20130918-20130918. No photographs were collected during 2011-041-FA. Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.305617 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.050009 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 40.059391 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 39.510267 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier Theme_Keyword: USGS:3f6b780e-b60b-42be-87ac-f5ef8ef2ebc3 Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey Theme_Keyword: USGS Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Theme_Keyword: St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center Theme_Keyword: RV Rafael Theme_Keyword: bottom photographs Theme_Keyword: marine geology Theme_Keyword: SEABOSS Theme_Keyword: JPEG Theme_Keyword: ground-truth Theme_Keyword: field activity serial number 2012-003-FA Theme_Keyword: field activity serial number 2013-014-FA Theme_Keyword: field activity serial number 2013-030-FA Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: oceans Theme_Keyword: environment Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: image collections Theme_Keyword: underwater photography Theme_Keyword: sea-floor characteristics Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Place_Keyword: United States of America Place_Keyword: State of New Jersey Place_Keyword: Barnegat Bay Place_Keyword: Metedeconk River Place_Keyword: Mantoloking Place_Keyword: Toms River Place_Keyword: Forked River Place_Keyword: Barnegat Inlet Place_Keyword: Tuckerton Place_Keyword: Little Egg Harbor Place_Keyword: Little Egg Inlet Stratum: Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Stratum_Keyword: sea floor Stratum_Keyword: seafloor Temporal: Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Temporal_Keyword: 2012 Temporal_Keyword: 2013 Access_Constraints: none Use_Constraints: none Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Brian Andrews Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2348 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bandrews@usgs.gov Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: barnbaybotphotos.jpg Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Example JPEG image of the seafloor of Barnegat Bay, New Jersey. File is included in the compressed zip file. Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG Data_Set_Credit: Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the source of this information. 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: D. Blackwood Originator: K. Parolski Publication_Date: 2001 Title: Seabed observation and sampling system Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Sea Technology Issue_Identification: v. 42, no 2, p. 39-43 Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: Gaps exist in sequential photograph numbers because photographs taken on deck, accidently triggered, or of poor quality were deleted. Completeness_Report: This data set includes 594 of bottom photographs collected during three separate SEABOSS surveys in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey (2012-003-FA, 2013-013-FA, and 2013-030-FA). Photographs of poor quality or otherwise unusable are not included. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: The JPEG photographs alone do not represent spatial data, however the shapefile "BarnBayBotPhotos" (http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0937/downloads/shapefile/BarnBayBotPhotos.zip)provides the geographic location of each photographs using the navigation data from each survey. The recorded position of each photo is actually the position of the GPS antenna on R/V Rafael, not the camera mounted on the SEABOSS. The SEABOSS was deployed approximately 1 meter astern of the GPS antenna off the starboard side of the R/V Rafael. No layback or offset was applied to the recorded position. In addition to the +/-1 meter offset the SEABOSS may additionally drift away from the survey vessel when deployed to the seafloor. Based on the various sources for horizontal offsets and the shallow depths of deployment, a conservative estimate the horizontal accuracy of the bottom photograph locations is 5 meters. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: Unpublished Material Title: JPEG Photographs Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: remote-sensing image Type_of_Source_Media: memory card Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20120410 Ending_Date: 20130918 Source_Currentness_Reference: Ground condition of SEABOSS sampling dates at the end of three surveys, 20120410-20120412, 20130328-20130329, 20130918-20130918. No photographs were collected during 2011-041-FA. Source_Citation_Abbreviation: JPEG photographs Source_Contribution: The SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) was designed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for rapid and effective collection of seabed images and sediment samples in coastal regions. The observations from video and still cameras and the sediment data are used to explore the nature of the seafloor and, in conjunction with high-resolution geophysical data, to make interpretive maps of sedimentary environments and validate the acoustic remote sensing data. The SEABOSS is a simple system that can be deployed from both small and large surface vessels and operates in water depths up to 200m. It incorporates two video cameras, a still camera, a depth sensor, and a modified Van Veen sediment sampler. The elements of this particular SEABOSS system are held within a stainless steel framework that measures 1.1 x 1.1 meters and weighs 167 kilograms overall. The digital camera, a Canon PowerShot G12, is mounted in a machined Delrin housing with a flat port and is set for 3648 x 2736 pixel images at the "fine" setting for compression. This allows the camera to be used for over 200 images with a 1 GB Compact Flash card without downloading. The system also has a PHOTOSEA strobe. Two lasers are set 20 cm apart (both as they are mounted on the SEABOSS frame and as seen in photographs and video on the seabed) for scale measurements. The red laser dots can usually be seen in the photo depending on the bottom type and the distance to the sea floor. A third laser is positioned at an angle so that when it intersects the other lasers, the SEABOSS is at the optimum height (approximately 75 cm) off the bottom for a still photograph. The camera is set to a manual focus and set to a default focus distance once the camera is powered up. The default focus distance is slightly less than the optimum height above the seafloor to account for optical distortion under water. All of the system's elements are powered from the surface vessel through a conducting cable. The winch operator views a video monitor so that the system can be maintained at an appropriate height above the bottom and obstacles can be avoided. Scientists also view video monitors and decide when to sample and take still photographs. Video displays include station number, water depth (from the depth sensor), and date, time, and geographic position (provided by a shipboard navigation system). The SEABOSS was deployed from a davit on the starboard side of the R/V Rafael. The vessel occupied one of the target stations and deployed the SEABOSS. The winch operator lowered the sampler until the seafloor was observed in the real-time bottom video. On most stations, the vessel and sampler drifted with wind and current for approximately 3-5 minutes. The SEABOSS operator monitored the real-time bottom video and acquired still bottom photographs at points of interest by remotely triggering the camera shutter. The number of photographs per station varied from 3-10 depending on the complexity of the bottom. The third laser on the system was set to an angle such that the optimum photograph height was 75 cm. The default focus on the camera was set to 50 cm. The imaged area is most often within 0.5 to 1.25 meters from left to right. Other camera settings are as follows: aperture is set at f/8; shutter speed is 1/250 second. Process_Step: Process_Description: Step 1: COLLECT PHOTOGRAPHS One-hundred and eighty six target stations were occupied in Barnegat Bay with the mini SEABOSS equipped with a Van Veen grab sampler, a digital still camera, and a video camera. JPEG photographs were acquired at user-define locations while drifting with wind and tide at each station. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: JPEG Photographs Process_Date: 201309 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Brian Andrews Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2348 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bandrews@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The shapefile containing the photo locations was exported to a comma-delimited text file based on each individual cruise. This was done in ArcMap 9.3.1 using XTools Pro 7.1. First the photos for a particular survey were selected, then XTools was used to export the following attributes: Latitude, Longitude, PhotoName, Time, Date_. The text editor VI v 7.3 was used to reformat the output so that DATE_ was in the format YYYYMMDD and the header line was removed. A Python version 2.7.3 script (andrews_write_exif.py) was then run that incorporated the information in the export text file, along with additional information supplied in a GUI of the script, into the appropriate locations in the EXIF header of each full-resolution JPEG image. The PYTHON script uses ExifTool (version 9.4.6.0) to write the information to the image headers. The full-resolution images will eventually be incorporated into the WHCMSC photo database and the EXIF header information is a requirement for the database. > The following tags were populated in the JPEG image headers. Information is duplicated in some tags. This was done because different software packages access different tags. The example below has the information for field activity 2012-003-FA. For the other two field activities, the appropriate field activity number was substituted. > GPS tags: The values populated are unique for each image and based on the information exported from the photo locations shapefile. > GPSLatitudeRef > GPSLatitude > GPSLongitudeRef > GPSLongitude > GPSTimeStamp > GSPDateStamp > JPEG tags: The tag is listed along with the information used to populate it - which is the same for every image of a given field activity. >Comment: Photo from down-looking camera on the USGS SEABOSS deployed from the R/V Rafael >during survey 2012-003-FA (http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2012-003-FA) >Released as part of publication DOI:10.3133/ds937 > EXIF tags: The tag is listed along with the information used to populate it - which is the same for every image. >ImageDescription: Photograph of the sea floor in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey from survey 2012-003-FA. > released as part of publication DOI:10.3133/ds937 > Artist: Brian Andrews > Copyright: Public Domain - please credit U.S. Geological Survey > > IPTC tags: The tag is listed along with the information used to populate it - which is the same for every image. > Credit: U.S. Geological Survey > Contact: WHSC_data_contact@usgs.gov >Keywords: Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, 2012-003-FA, SEABOSS, sea floor, USGS > CopyrightNotice: Public Domain - please credit U.S. Geological Survey >Caption-Abstract: Photograph of the sea floor in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey from survey 2012-003-FA. >released as part of publication DOI:10.3133/ds937 > XMP tags: The tag is listed along with the information used to populate it - which is the same for every image. > Caption: Photograph of the sea floor in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey from survey 2012-003-FA. > released as part of publication DOI:10.3133/ds937 > To extract the information from the image headers using ExifTool, the following command can be used (tested with ExifTool version 9.4.6.0): exiftool.exe -csv -f -filename -GPSTimeStamp -GPSDateStamp -GPSLongitude -GPSLatitude -n -Artist -Credit -comment -keywords -Caption -Copyright -CopyrightNotice -Caption-Abstract -ImageDescription imgtest/*.jpg > out.csv > The -csv flag writes the information out in a comma-delimited format. The -n option formats the latitude and longitude as signed decimal degrees. The folder "imgtest" would be replaced with the folder name containing the images. Process_Date: 20150106 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 Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2251 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: Changed incorrect data download links in the Online_linkage and Network_Resource_Name sections. Process_Date: 20160706 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Brian Andrews Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2348 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bandrews@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: USGS Thesaurus keywords added to the keyword section. Process_Date: 20180720 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 Process_Step: Process_Description: Crossref DOI link was added as the first link in the metadata. Process_Date: 20191115 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 Process_Step: Process_Description: Added keywords section with USGS persistent identifier as theme keyword. Process_Date: 20200908 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 Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Brian Andrews Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2348 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bandrews@usgs.gov Resource_Description: 2012_003_FA_BP.zip, 2013_014_FA_BP.zip, and 2013_030_FA_BP.zip: contain bottom photographs in JPEG format collected during each of the three field activities where the SEABOSS was deployed along with associated metadata Distribution_Liability: Neither the U.S. Government, the Department of the Interior, nor the USGS, 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 USGS 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: JPEG Format_Version_Number: none Format_Specification: JPEG photographs Format_Information_Content: WinZip file 2012_003_FA.zip contains bottom photographs collected in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey and associated metadata from field activity 2012-003-FA. File_Decompression_Technique: WinZip (v. 14.0) Transfer_Size: 545 Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0937/downloads/hyperlink_images/bottom_photos/2012_003_FA_BP.zip Access_Instructions: Data can be downloaded via the World Wide Web (WWW) Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: JPEG Format_Version_Number: none Format_Specification: JPEG photographs Format_Information_Content: WinZip file 2013_014_FA.zip contains bottom photographs collected in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey and associated metadata from field activity 2013-014-FA. File_Decompression_Technique: WinZip (v. 14.0) Transfer_Size: 453 Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0937/downloads/hyperlink_images/bottom_photos/2013_014_FA_BP.zip Access_Instructions: Data can be downloaded via the World Wide Web (WWW) Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: JPEG Format_Version_Number: none Format_Specification: JPEG photographs Format_Information_Content: WinZip file 2013_030_FA.zip contains bottom photographs collected in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey and associated metadata from field activity 2013-030-FA. File_Decompression_Technique: WinZip (v. 14.0) Transfer_Size: 42 Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0937/downloads/hyperlink_images/bottom_photos/2013_030_FA_BP.zip Access_Instructions: Data can be downloaded via the World Wide Web (WWW) Fees: none Technical_Prerequisites: The user must have an image viewer capable of view JPEG images. Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20240318 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Brian Andrews Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2348 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 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 20240318) Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998 Metadata_Time_Convention: local time