Page C. Valentine
2019
Sample still images in JPEG format of the sediment surface in the grab sampler, collected on Stellwagen Bank during U.S. Geological Survey field activity 2017-009-FA, aboard the R/V Auk, Jan. 30, 2017
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data release
DOI:10.5066/P9THIZBB
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9THIZBB
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2017-009-FA/
Page C. Valentine
VeeAnn A. Cross
2019
Sea Floor Sediment Samples, Seabed Imagery, and CTD Water Column Data Collected on Stellwagen Bank in January 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2017-009-FA
1.0
data release
DOI:10.5066/P9THIZBB
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
Suggested citation: Valentine, P.C., and Cross, V.A., 2019, Sea floor sediment samples, seabed imagery, and CTD water column data collected on Stellwagen Bank in January 2017, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2017-009-FA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9THIZBB .
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9THIZBB
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2017-009-FA/
This field activity is part of the effort to map geologic substrates of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts. The overall goal is to develop high-resolution (1:25,000) interpretive maps, based on multibeam sonar data and seabed sampling, showing surficial geology and seabed sediment dynamics. This cruise was conducted in collaboration with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the data collected will aid research on the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the region. The Sanctuary's research vessel, R/V Auk, visited 13 locations on Stellwagen Bank at which a customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a CTD was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties.
Photos were collected of the sediment sample in the grab sampler to document the texture of the seabed surface, the degree of disturbance during sampling, biological features such as worm tubes, and to estimate the volume of sediment collected.
Additional information regarding this field activity is available from https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2017-009-FA .
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ground condition of when data were collected.
None planned
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USGS Metadata Identifier
USGS:6d9838bc-903a-4cd9-a683-5b3713a0111d
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U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
CMGP
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
WHCMSC
grab sample images
sample photographs
ground-truth
JPEG
SEABed Observation and Sampling System
SEABOSS
sediment sample images
ISO 19115 Topic Category
oceans
geoscientificInformation
USGS Thesaurus
image collections
sea-floor characteristics
marine geology
field monitoring stations
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North America
United States
Massachusetts
Atlantic Ocean
Stellwagen Bank
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
SBNMS
Massachusetts Bay
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U.S. Geological Survey
Page C. Valentine
Research Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2239
(508) 457-2310
pvalentine@usgs.gov
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2017-009-FA/data/imagery/2017-009-FA_sampleimage_browse.jpg
Browse graphic of an example grab sample still image on Stellwagen Bank.
JPEG
D.S. Blackwood
K.F. Parolski
2001
Seabed observation and sampling system
Sea Technology
v. 42, no. 2, p.39-43
P. Valentine
D. Blackwood
K. Parolski
2000
Seabed observation and sampling system
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet
FS-142-00
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs142-00/
The image names are in the format: staXXXX_Y.JPG. The designation XXXX is the station number; Y represents R or L, the right and left hand sides of the sample surface in the grab sampler. Each sediment sample has a maximum of two images – one showing the sediment surface in the right hand side of the sampler, and the other showing the sediment surface in the left hand side of the sampler. Exceptions are stations 4565, 4566, 4570, and 4573-4576 where only one side was photographed. The clock on the camera was not perfectly synced to the GPS time, so the GPSTimeStamp value in the EXIF header will not match the time portion of the DateTime, DateTimeOriginal, or DateTimeDigitized elements in the EXIF header.
Sediment samples were collected at all 13 stations. Sediment samples have a maximum of two images – one showing the sediment surface in the right hand side of the sampler, and the other showing the sediment surface in the left hand side of the sampler. For 7 stations (4565, 4566, 4570, 4573-4576) only one side was photographed (7 images) because both sides of the sampler were identical in sediment character and volume. For the other 6 samples, both right hand and left hand sides were photographed (12 images); giving a total of 19 images.
Although the images do not represent spatial data, the spatial information is available in the EXIF header of each image, which is derived from the station data summary file (available from the Larger Work citation). The location information for stations was acquired from a satellite navigation receiver (Furuno satellite compass SC-30, GPS receiver) at two second intervals with a horizontal accuracy of 10 m. The navigation antenna is located 5.3 m forward of the SEABOSS deployment location. This offset was not accounted for in the navigation acquisition (navigation fixes represent antenna location).
Still images of sediment sample surfaces were collected using a hand-held Nikon 7100 digital camera with a resolution of 24 megapixels (6000 x 4000 pixels), using a 18-200x zoom lens with an aperture ranging from f3.5 to f5.6. A Nikon macro Speedlight was used for illumination. After retrieval of the SEABOSS and placement on its wooden stand, the two doors (right and left) in the top of the Van Veen grab sampler were opened and a photo was taken of the sediment surface in one or both sides of the sampler bucket. The centimeter scale in the image allows measurement of the distance from the top of the grab bucket to the top of the sediment surface and provides a qualitative measure of the volume of sediment collected by the grab, which is 15 cm deep in the deepest part of the sampler. There is no centimeter scale shown for stations 4565 and 4566 as the sample bucket was full.
20170130
U.S. Geological Survey
Page C. Valentine
Research Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2239
(508) 457-2310
pvalentine@usgs.gov
Using the 2017-009-FA_station_data_summary.csv, the approximate time and location of each photo was derived. Three stations in the summary file were for plankton tows, so those records were deleted for this process. The station location (latitude and longitude), date and time for each station was extracted from the CSV file. This information was reformatted using an awk script (awksampleimages_2017-009-FA on a machine running Cygwin) so that the following columns of information were available: image name (based on the station number), julian day, GPS date (in the format YYYYMMDD), GPS time (in the format HH:MM:SS), latitude, and longitude. This information was written to a CSV file - 2017-009-FA_grabimage_locations.csv. This CSV files was then manually edited to remove records that referenced "L" or "R" images that did not exist. Also, the image name was manually edited to change "jpg" to "JPG". This process step and subsequent process steps (unless otherwise noted), were performed by the same person - VeeAnn A. Cross.
2017-009-FA_station_data_summary.csv
20181107
2017-009-FA_grabimage_locations.csv
U.S. Geological Survey
VeeAnn A. Cross
Marine Geologist
Mailing and Physical
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2251
508-457-2310
vatnipp@usgs.gov
A python script (writeexif_2_readfile_11_24_15.py executed with IDLE version 2.7.3) was then run that incorporated the information from 2017-009-FA_grabimage_locations.csv, along with additional information, into the appropriate locations in the EXIF header of each grab image at each station. The PYTHON script uses ExifTool (version 9.4.6.0) to write the information to the image headers of the full-resolution images. 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.
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.
comment:Photo of grab sample in sampler from a hand-held Nikon 7100 digital camera aboard the R/V Auk during survey 2017-009-FA (https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2017-009-FA).
EXIF tags: The tag is listed along with the information used to populate it - which is the same for every image.
>ImageDescription:Photo of grab sample in sampler from a sample on Stellwagen Bank, MA from survey 2017-009-FA
>Artist: Page C. Valentine
>Copyright: Public Domain - please credit the 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: Stellwagen Bank, Massachusetts, 2017-009-FA, SEABOSS, sea floor, USGS, ground-truth
>CopyrightNotice: Public Domain - please credit U.S. Geological Survey
>Caption-Abstract: Photo of grab sample in sampler from a sample on Stellwagen Bank, MA from survey 2017-009-FA
XMP tags: The tag is listed along with the information used to populate it - which is the same for every image.
Caption: Photo of grab sample in sampler from a sample on Stellwagen Bank, MA from survey 2017-009-FA
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 -GPSLongitude -GPSLatitude -n -Artist -Credit -comment -keywords -Caption -Copyright -CopyrightNotice -Caption-Abstract -ImageDescription *.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.
2017-009-FA_grabimage_locations.csv
*.JPG
2019
*.JPG
Added keywords section with USGS persistent identifier as theme keyword.
20200908
U.S. Geological Survey
VeeAnn A. Cross
Marine Geologist
Mailing and Physical
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2251
508-457-2310
vatnipp@usgs.gov
Location information in the EXIF header and also indicated by the station location in the station data summary data file (available from the Larger Work citation).
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0.000001
Decimal degrees
D_WGS_1984
WGS_1984
6378137.000000
298.257224
Although the images do not have attributes per se, the EXIF header information can be extracted or viewed to give additional information about each image.
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Geological Survey
Page C. Valentine
Research Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2239
(508) 457-2310
pvalentine@usgs.gov
2017-009-FA_SampleImages.zip contains the 19 JPEG images, the browse graphic (2017-009-FA_sampleimage_browse.jpg) and the FGDC CSDGM metadata in TXT, XML, and HTML formats.
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The zip file contains JPEG image files, browse graphic, and the associated FGDC CSDGM metadata.
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https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2017-009-FA/data/imagery/2017-009-FA_SampleImages.zip
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9THIZBB
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2017-009-FA/
The first link is to download the data in a zip file. The second and third links are to the landing page of the data. Although the last two links go to the same place, one is the DOI designation of the publication.
none
The zip file contains images in JPEG format. The user must have software capable of uncompressing the zip file and viewing the JPEG images.
20200908
U.S. Geological Survey
VeeAnn A. Cross
Marine Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2251
508-457-2310
vatnipp@usgs.gov
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998