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The sidescan-sonar data were collected and processed during USGS field activity 2000-005-FA to map the surficial geology of the Madison Swanson Marine Protected Area.
Danforth, W. W., T. F. O'Brien, and W. C. Schwab. 1991. US Geological Survey Image Processing System: Near Real-Time Mosaicking of High-Resolution Sidescan-Sonar Data. Sea Technology, Jan. 1991: 54-59.
Danforth, W., 1997, Xsonar/ShowImage; a complete system for rapid sidescan sonar processing and display: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-686, 77 p. Person who carried out this activity:
Paskevich, V. F. 1992. Digital Mapping of Sidescan Sonar Data with the Woods Hole Image Processing System Software. Open-File Report 92-536, 87 pp.
Paskevich, V. F. 1996. MAPIT: An Improved Method for Mapping Digital Sidescan Sonar Data using the Woods Hole Image Processing System (WHIPS) Software. Open-File Report 96-281, 73 pp.
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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 to be used for navigation.
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Data format: | GeoTIFF image file and TFW world file derived from sonar data collected during USGS field activity 2000-005-FA. This also includes associated metadata. in format GeoTIFF (version unknown) GeoTIFF image file Size: 195 |
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https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2000-005-FA/data/backscatter/2000-005-FA_MS_sss.zip https://doi.org/10.5066/F7JD4TVC https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2000-005-FA/ |
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