6-m resolution gray-scale image of shaded-relief multibeam bathymetry in western Massachusetts Bay map Quadrangle 3 (Q3_SRELIEF.TIF)

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Bradford Butman
Originator: William W. Danforth
Publication_Date: 2007
Title:
6-m resolution gray-scale image of shaded-relief multibeam bathymetry in western Massachusetts Bay map Quadrangle 3 (Q3_SRELIEF.TIF)
Edition: 1.0
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: remote-sensing image
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/ds99
Online_Linkage: Online_Linkage: https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/99/webpages/quad3.html
Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Butman, Bradford
Originator: Valentine, Page C.
Originator: Middleton, Tammie J.
Originator: Danforth, William W.
Publication_Date: 2007
Title:
A GIS Library of Multibeam Data for Massachusetts Bay and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Offshore of Boston, Massachusetts
Edition: 1.0
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:
map, raster digital data, remote-sensing image, tabular digital data, vector digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Data Series
Issue_Identification: 99
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Online_Linkage: https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/99/
Description:
Abstract:
The U.S. Geological Survey has conducted geologic mapping to characterize the sea floor offshore of Massachusetts. The mapping was carried out using a Simrad Subsea EM 1000 Multibeam Echo Sounder on the Frederick G. Creed on four cruises conducted between 1994 and 1998. The mapping was conducted in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and with support from the Canadian Hydrographic Service and the University of New Brunswick.
The long-term goal of this mapping effort is to produce high-resolution geologic maps and a Geographic Information System (GIS) project that presents images and grids of bathymetry, shaded relief bathymetry, and backscatter intensity data from these surveys that will serve the needs of research, management and the public.
Purpose:
This GeoTIFF (Tagged Image File Format) image shows shaded-relief multibeam bathymetry in western Massachusetts Bay map Quadrangle 3 as grayscale at 6-m resolution.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 1994
Ending_Date: 1998
Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.788907
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.599983
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.322212
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.203333
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier
Theme_Keyword: USGS:8337bab2-3608-425b-98a6-50a7a4e14b0d
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: bathymetry
Theme_Keyword: shaded-relief bathymetry
Theme_Keyword: multibeam
Theme_Keyword: image
Theme_Keyword: GeoTIFF
Theme_Keyword: 6-m resolution
Theme_Keyword: sea floor
Theme_Keyword: sea floor mapping
Theme_Keyword: USGS Map I-2733
Theme_Keyword: Simrad
Theme_Keyword: EM 1000
Theme_Keyword: Frederick G. Creed
Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Science Center
Theme_Keyword: WHSC
Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Theme_Keyword: CMGP
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey
Theme_Keyword: USGS
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: oceans
Theme_Keyword: elevation
Theme_Keyword: imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus
Theme_Keyword: sea-floor characteristics
Theme_Keyword: multibeam sonar
Theme_Keyword: marine geophysics
Theme_Keyword: computational methods
Theme_Keyword: geospatial datasets
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: Massachusetts Bay
Place_Keyword: western Massachusetts Bay
Place_Keyword: western Massachusetts Bay map Quadrangle 3
Place_Keyword: Boston
Place_Keyword: Gloucester
Place_Keyword: Massachusetts
Place_Keyword: Stellwagen Basin
Place_Keyword: MWRA ocean outfall
Place_Keyword: MWRA
Place_Keyword: Gulf of Maine
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: North Atlantic Ocean
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 (USGS) as the source of this information.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Bradford Butman
Contact_Position: Oceanographer
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 x2212
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2309
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bbutman@usgs.gov
Hours_of_Service: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.780
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report: There are no attributes associated with a GeoTIFF image.
Logical_Consistency_Report: Information unavailable from original metadata.
Completeness_Report:
The multibeam bathymetric data, on which this image is based, were corrected for tidal elevation during the survey using sea level measured at the NOAA Boston tide gage. This assumes that the tidal elevation and phase are the same as Boston across the survey area. Further processing to correct for the spatial and temporal changes in tidal elevation across the survey area would improve the sounding data and may be undertaken at a later time.
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
These data were navigated with a Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS); they are accurate to +/- 3 meters, horizontally.
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
These data have been corrected for vessel motion (roll, pitch, heave, yaw) and tidal offsets, and referenced to mean lower low water. The theoretical vertical resolution of the Simrad EM-1000 multibeam echosounder is 1% of water depth; roughly 30 - 50 cm within the study area. However, we found that the working vertical resolution of the system is roughly +/- 50 cm for water depths of 30 - 50 meters based on comparisons of grids from multi-year surveys of the same area.
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Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
Publication_Date: Unpublished Material
Title:
Multibeam bathymetric survey data collected by USGS in western Massachusetts Bay map quadrangle 1, 1994-1998
Type_of_Source_Media: Information unavailable from original metadata.
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 1994
Ending_Date: 1998
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Information unavailable from original metadata.
Source_Contribution: Information unavailable from original metadata.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
A suite of processing software (called SwathEd) (www.omg.unb.ca/~jhc/SwathEd.html), developed by the Ocean Mapping Group at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, was used to process and grid the multibeam bathymetric soundings and produce shaded-relief images. The metadata for the grids describes the processing steps applied to the navigation and bathymetric soundings. The following processing steps produced the image of shaded-relief bathymetry:
1. Create a 6-m grid of the bathymetric soundings for Massachusetts Bay using the SwathEd routine weighgrid.
Command line: weigh_grid -fresh_start -omg -tide -coeffs -mindep -2 -maxdep -800 -beam_mask -beam_weight -custom_weight EM1000_Weights -butter -power 2 -cutoff 12 -lambda 3 gridFile filename.merged
2. Create a shaded relief image of the bathymetry using SwathEd routine addSUN (sun elevation of 45 degrees from 350, vertically exaggerating 4 times).
Command line: addSUN -elev 45 -azi350 -vert_exag 4.0 gridFile.r4 filename.shade
3. Use a two-point linear contrast stretch to enhance the shaded relief image:
Command line: stretchacres -low 150 -high 200 -in filename.shade -out filename_shade.stretch
4. Convert the contrast-stretched shaded relief image from SwathEd format to a tiff file using the netpbm utilities (http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/):
Command line: rawtopgm -headerskip 1024 image_width image_height filename_shade.stretch | pnmtotiff -none - > filename.tif
5. Create an ESRI world file (tfw) for the shaded relief tiff image for import to ArcView or ArcGIS. Copy bounding box and resolution information from the jview program output to the tfw file.
Command line: jview filename_shade.stretch
Process_Date: Unknown
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: William Danforth
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Operational Geologist
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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 x2274
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bdanforth@usgs.gov
Hours_of_Service: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Image shifted 1/2 grid cell to northwest (using the ArcMap/Data Management Tools/Projections and Transformations/Raster/Shift tool) to correct for an error identified in the SwathEd gridding algorithm in 2007. Correct world file.
Process_Date: 200702
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: q3_srelief.tif
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: q3_srelief.tfw
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Edits to the metadata were made to fix any errors that MP v 2.9.36 flagged. This is necessary to enable the metadata to be successfully harvested for various data catalogs. In some cases, this meant adding text "Information unavailable" or "Information unavailable from original metadata" for those required fields that were left blank. Other minor edits were probably performed (title, publisher, publication place, etc.). Attempted to modify http to https where appropriate. The source information was incomplete and had to be modified to meet the standard. The metadata date (but not the metadata creator) was edited to reflect the date of these changes. The metadata available from a harvester may supersede metadata bundled within a download file. Compare the metadata dates to determine which metadata file is most recent.
Process_Date: 20170206
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Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
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Standard_Parallel: 41.650000
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Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222
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Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bbutman@usgs.gov
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Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data. 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.
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Address: Box 25286 Denver Federal Center
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Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data. 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.
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Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Oceanographer
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City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
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Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2212
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