Valerie Paskevich
20010702
Location of bottom photographs taken along the U.S. Atlantic East Coast as part of the Continental Margin Program (1963-1968, BPHOTOS)
1.0
vector digital data
Open-File Report
01-154
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr01154
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/of01-154/data/bphotos.zip
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/of01-154/htmldocs/data.htm
V. F. Paskevich
L. J. Poppe
M. E. Hastings
J. C. Hathaway
2001
SEA-FLOOR PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE CONTINENTAL MARGIN PROGRAM: A Pictorial Survey of Benthic Character and Habitats
1.0
Open-File Report
01-154
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/of01-154/
In 1962, Congress authorized the Continental Margin Program, a joint program between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to conduct a geological reconnaissance investigation of the continental shelf and slope off the Atlantic coast of the United States. As part of this program 464 photographs were collected at 378 stations from the Canadian border to the southern tip of Florida. Bottom photography was conducted at many of these stations in conjunction with sediment sampling for grain size, mineralogy, geochemistry, and biology. Those photographs have been scanned and are archived here to release a digital version of the historical dataset.
This ArcView shapefile contains the locations of bottom photographs taken along the U.S. Atlantic East Coast as part of the Continental Margin Program and may be utilized as a data layer in any Geographic Information System (GIS).
The bottom photographs in this gallery are especially important because they can be used to appraise bottom variability, faunal communities, and sedimentary processes around stations distributed over a wide geographic area. These photographs also document bedrock outcrops, boulder fields, and coarse gravelly areas where statistically meaningful samples could not be collected. It is precisely because of this inability to collect adequate gravel samples that this fraction is often under-represented in many sediment grain-size databases (Hastings and others, 2000).
1963
1968
completion of the Continental Margin Program sampling
None planned
-81.8167
-59.9833
44.8500
24.4083
USGS Metadata Identifier
USGS:b2054b92-f420-4dcb-a8a5-a88c67c23f74
None
U.S. Geological Survey
Woods Hole Field Center
Continental Margin Program
bottom photographs
surficial sediments
seafloor photography
marine photography
black and white photography
photograph locations
Geographic Information System
GIS
USGS
CMGP
ISO 19115 Topic Category
oceans
location
environment
USGS Thesaurus
navigational data
underwater photography
geospatial datasets
None
U.S. Atlantic East Coast
continental United States
east coast
Atlantic Margin
continental shelf
North America
Augmented FIPS 10-4 and FIPS 6-4, version 1.0
US10 = Delaware
US12 = Florida
US13 = Georgia
US23 = Maine
US24 = Maryland
US25 = Massachusetts
US34 = New Jersey
US36 = New York
US37 = North Carolina
US44 = Rhode Island
US45 = South Carolina
US51 = Virginia
None
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.
Valerie Paskevich
U.S. Geological Survey
Computer Specialist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2281
(508) 457-2310
vpaskevich@usgs.gov
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of01-154/htmldocs/images/browse/thumb/bphotos.gif
Thumbnail image showing location and distribution of bottom photographs along the U.S. east coast
GIF
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of01-154/htmldocs/images/browse/bphotos.gif
Image showing location and distribution of bottom photographs along the U.S. east coast
GIF
The locations associated with the bottom photographs were extracted from the surficial sediment database held at the USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Science Center.
ESRI ArcView shapefile
L.J. Poppe
S.J. Williams
V.F. Paskevich
2005
USGS East-Coast Sediment Analysis: Procedures, Database, and GIS Data
1.0
Open-File Report
2005-1001
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1001/
Attributes were extracted with the bottom photograph location from the East coast surficial samples database.
No additional checks for topological consistency were performed on this data set.
This data set is complete inasmuch as it contains the location of those bottom photos that could be recovered from the archives at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Individuals should be careful when assuming precise positional accuracy because of the navigational equipment used to locate the bottom photography stations. Most of the stations were navigated with Loran-A; some near-shore stations were navigated by radar and line of sight. As a general rule of thumb, Loran-A had an average expected accuracy of 1 percent of the distance between the navigator and the onshore Loran stations (U.S. Coast Guard, 1949).
John C. Hathaway (comp.)
1971
DATA FILE: CONTINENTAL MARGIN PROGRAM ATLANTIC COAST OF THE UNITED STATES
Vol. 2 Samples Collection and Analytical Data
Woods Hole, MA
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
L.J. Poppe (ed.)
C.F. Polloni (ed.)
2000
U.S. Geological Survey East-Coast Sediment Analysis: Procedures, Database, and Georeferenced Displays
Vol. 2 Samples Collection and Analytical Data
Open-File Report
00-358
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/openfile/of00-358/
disk file
1963
1971
publication date
sd022395.db
Data from report 71-15 were digitally transcribed to create a Paradox database. This database was the foundation of the USGS East Coast Sediment Texture database referenced as the Larger_Work_Citation in the Source_Information.
The records pertaining to the bottom photos were extracted from the sediment database.
sd022395.db
20010305
stations.xls
U. S. Geological Survey
M.E. (Polly) Hastings
database specialist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2289
(508) 457-2310
phastings@usgs.gov
The Excel spreadsheet was exported as an ASCII text file with tab delimited fields.
stations.xls
20010515
stations.txt
U. S. Geological Survey
Valerie Paskevich
Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2281
(508) 457-2310
vpaskevich@usgs.gov
The file, stations.txt, was imported into ArcView to create a table. The table was then converted to an ArcView shapefile to be used as a GIS data layer. Also, at this time the ArcView legend file, bphotos.avl, was created and saved.
stations.txt
20010608
bphotos.dbf
bphotos.shp
bphotos.shx
bphotos.sbn
bphotos.sbx
bphotos.avl
U. S. Geological Survey
Valerie Paskevich
Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2281
(508) 457-2310
vpaskevich@usgs.gov
The ArcView shapefile was modified to add the field URL. This new field holds the relative path to the HTML formatted page containing the bottom photograph associated with the FIELD_ID for the data record.
bphotos.dbf
20010608
bphotos.dbf
U. S. Geological Survey
Valerie Paskevich
Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2281
(508) 457-2310
vpaskevich@usgs.gov
Edits to the metadata were made to fix any errors that MP v 2.9.32 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.). Removed a bad link in the Identification_Information section to coastalmap. The distribution format name was modified in an attempt to be more consistent with other metadata files of the same data format. 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.
20160608
U.S. Geological Survey
VeeAnn A. Cross
Marine Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543
508-548-8700 x2251
508-457-2310
vatnipp@usgs.gov
USGS Thesaurus keywords added to the keyword section.
20180720
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
Crossref DOI link was added as the first link in the metadata.
20191118
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
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
Point
Point
378
.17
.24
Decimal degrees
North American Datum of 1927
Clarke 1866
6378206.4
294.98
bphotos.dbf
Shapefile Attribute Table
ESRI
FID
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Shape
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Coordinates defining the features.
Point
Shapefile point data
ESRI
FIELD_ID
Field identifier - sample name or number as assigned in the field.
User Defined
24.4083
44.8500
signed decimal degrees
AREA
General geographic area to identify location of bottom photograph. The "area" is general enough to easily locate the area on a map.
User Defined
Character String
LATITUDE
Latitude coordinate portion of position of bottom photo location. Value is recorded in decimal-degrees. South latitudes are recorded as negative values.
User Defined
24.4083
44.8500
signed decimal degrees
.0001
LONGITUDE
Longitude coordinate portion of position of bottom photo location. Value is recorded in decimal-degrees. West longitudes are recorded as negative values.
User Defined
-81.8167
-59.9833
signed decimal degrees
.0001
DEPTH_M
Depth or sounding in meters - Measured depth of water, in meters, overlying sediment at sample time. Depth value is not corrected for tides.
User Defined
7
4861
meters
1
CRUISE_ID
Name or number of cruise on which sample collected. (text)
User Defined
Character String
DEVICE
Sampling device used to collect the sample
User Defined
Character String
LITHOLOGY
General lithologic description of sample (text)
User Defined
Character String
NO_PHOTOS
number of photos taken at station (integer)
User Defined
1
6
count
1
URL
URL (Uniform Resource Locator) link to HTML formatted page containing thumbnail(s) view of the bottom photograph for the given station. The HTML formatted page also includes links to a larger, browse image and the full-resolution bottom photograph. (text)
User Defined
Character String
Attributes include cruise identifier, depth of the sample, a text description of the recovered sediment sample, and the name and relative location of the associated bottom photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey
U. S. Geological Survey
Valerie Paskevich
Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2281
(508) 457-2310
vpaskevich@usgs.gov
Downloadable Data
Although this derived data set and its sources have been used by the USGS, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS as to the accuracy of the data and/or related materials. 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.
Shapefile
ArcView 3.2
shapefile
The six files comprising the ArcView shapefile representing the Continental Margin bottom photograph locations and an ASCII version of the metadata file.
zip
0.03
http://pubs.usgs.gov/openfile/of01-154/data/bphotos.zip
Data may be retrieved via any WWW browser.
CD-ROM
650
Mbytes
ISO 9600
The user must have a system with a CD-ROM capable of reading an ISO-9660 standard CD-ROM disk. To browse the information contained on this disk, the user must also have a current version of WWW browser available.
none
The Continental Margin bottom photograph locations overlay is available as an ArcView shapefile format. The user must have ESRI's ArcView 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing the data.
Access to the data and information contained on this CD-ROM was developed using the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) utilized by the World Wide Web (WWW) project. Development of the CD-ROM documentation and user interface in HTML allows a user to access the information by using a variety of WWW information browsers to facilitate browsing and locating information and data. To access the information contained on this disk with a WWW client browser, open the file 'index.htm' at the top level directory of this CD-ROM with your selected browser.
This CD-ROM should be readable by a variety of operating systems including Windows 95/98/NT, Macintosh and UNIX.
2001
20211116
Valerie Paskevich
U. S. Geological Survey
Information Specialist, GIS Coordinator
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2281
(508) 457-2310
whsc_data_contact@usgs.gov
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.
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
local time
None
None