Metadata: Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 2000 Title: 4 meter composite sidescan sonar mosaic of the New York Bight Apex (APEX_OF.TIF) Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: remote-sensing image Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 02-152 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/ofr2002152 Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/of02-152/ARCVIEW/MOSAIC/APEX_TIF.ZIP Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Schwab, William C. Originator: Denny, Jane F. Originator: Foster, David S. Originator: Lotto, Linda L. Originator: Allison, Mead A. Originator: Uchupi, Elazar Originator: Swift, B. Ann Originator: Danforth, William W. Originator: Thieler, E. Robert Originator: Butman, Bradford Publication_Date: 2002 Title: High-Resolution Quaternary seismic stratigraphy of the New York Bight Continental Shelf Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 02-152 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/of02-152/ Description: Abstract: In 1995, the USGS, in cooperation with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, began a program designed to generate reconnaissance maps of the sea floor offshore of the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, one of the most populated coastal regions within the United States. The goal of this mapping program is to provide a regional synthesis of the sea-floor environment, including a description of sedimentary environments, sediment texture, sea-floor morphology, geologic history, and the geometry and structure of the Quaternary strata. This mapping effort differs from previous studies of these area by obtaining digital, sidescan-sonar images that cover 100 percent of the sea floor. The sidescan-sonar data were digitally mosaicked to provide a base suitable for use in the geographic information system (GIS) of the New York Bight region. Purpose: In 1995, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), began a program to generate reconnaissance maps of the sea floor offshore of the New York - New Jersey metropolitan area and within the southern Long Island nearshore area. Our methods include high-resolution sidescan sonar and subbottom profiling techniques, along with surface grab and vibracore sampling to verify the geophysical interpretations. The goal of the investigation is to provide a regional synthesis of the sea-floor environment, to determine regional-scale availability of sand as a resource for beach nourishment programs, and to investigate the role that inner-shelf morphology and geologic framework have in the evolution of the coastal region within the New York Bight Apex and southern Long Island. Maps derived from interpretation of the subbottom profiles show information on the geometry and distribution of the Quaternary sediments and the underlying coastal-plain unconformity. This seismic stratigraphy yields a regional framework on which explanations of present (and past) sediment movement, dispersal, and erosion processes are based. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1995 Ending_Date: 1998 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.288380 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -73.190715 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 40.648632 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 40.150426 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier Theme_Keyword: USGS:e39b0576-ae59-4dd6-9d5f-476fbba58318 Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey Theme_Keyword: USGS Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program Theme_Keyword: CMGP Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Science Center Theme_Keyword: WHSC Theme_Keyword: sonar Theme_Keyword: Sidescan-sonar mosaic Theme_Keyword: backscatter Theme_Keyword: geophysics Theme_Keyword: grey scale image Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: oceans Theme_Keyword: imageryBaseMapsEarthCover Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: sea-floor acoustic reflectivity Theme_Keyword: image mosaics Theme_Keyword: sidescan sonar Theme_Keyword: marine geophysics Theme_Keyword: geospatial datasets Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Place_Keyword: New York Bight Place_Keyword: US East Coast Place_Keyword: US Northeast Place_Keyword: Inner Continental Shelf Place_Keyword: New York Bight Place_Keyword: New York Bight Apex Place_Keyword: Southern Long Island Place_Keyword: New York Place_Keyword: New Jersey Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean Place_Keyword: United States Place_Keyword: North America 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_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Jane F. Denny Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geologist Contact_Address: 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 x2311 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jdenny@usgs.gov Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722 Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: These data are internally consistent and accurate. Logical_Consistency_Report: These data are logically consistent; they were acquired with a Datasoncis SIS-1000 sidescan-sonar system, and processed following an identical procedure. Completeness_Report: These data are complete. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: DGPS is assumed to be accurate within 1-2 meters. Standard GPS is assumed accurate within 5-10 meters. 99% of the positional data is DGPS. Unless noted, all GPS/DGPS data is referenced to WGS84 (NAD83). Slant-range distance is recorded between the sidescan-sonar tow vehicle and a sidemount rigged with an acoustic transponder. Offset between the sidemount and GPS antennae is measured. Basic trigonomic calculations use the slant-range offset to calculate a 'fish' (tow-vehicle) navigation. An assumption in these calculations is that the tow-vehicle is traveling directly behind the vessel; movement to port or starboard is not accounted for within 'fish' navigation. Thus, the horizontal accuracy of the sidescan-sonar tow-vehicle is +/- 15 meters. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Jane F Denny Originator: William C. Schwab Publication_Date: 1999 Title: Archive of sidescan-sonar data and Differential Geographic Positioning System navigation data collected during USGS cruise Seax95007, 8 May - 24 May 1995. Edition: 1,0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Raw digital QMIPS sonar data Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 99-356 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Other_Citation_Details: These publications are not online. The data would need to be acquired from Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. Type_of_Source_Media: DVD Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 19950508 Ending_Date: 19950524 Source_Currentness_Reference: Date of Field Work Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Data Archive - SEAX95007 Source_Contribution: These are the raw QMIPS sidescan-sonar data that were used to generate the sidescan-sonar mosaic. Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Jane F Denny Originator: William C. Schwab Originator: William W. Danforth Originator: Thomas F. O'Brien Originator: Dave S. Nichols Originator: Barry Irwin Publication_Date: 2000 Publication_Time: unknown Title: Archive of sidescan-sonar data and Differential Geographic Positioning System navigation data collected during USGS cruise ALPH98013, September10-23, 1998. Edition: 1 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Raw digital QMIPS sonar data Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 98-590 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Other_Citation_Details: These publications are not online. The data would need to be acquired from Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. Type_of_Source_Media: DVD Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 19980910 Ending_Date: 19980923 Source_Currentness_Reference: Date of Field Work Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Data Archive - ALPH98013 Source_Contribution: These are the raw QMIPS sidescan-sonar data that were used to generate the sidescan-sonar mosaic. Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Erika Hammar-Klose Originator: Jenna Hill Originator: William C. Schwab Publication_Date: 2002 Publication_Time: unknown Title: Archive of sidescan-sonar data and Differential Geographic Positioning System navigation data collected during USGS cruise DIAN97032, September 25 - October 19, 1997. Edition: 1 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Raw digital QMIPS sonar data Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 99-356 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Other_Citation_Details: These publications are not online. The data would need to be acquired from Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. Online_Linkage: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov Type_of_Source_Media: DVD Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 19970925 Ending_Date: 19971019 Source_Currentness_Reference: Date of Field Work Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Data Archive - SEAX97032 Source_Contribution: These are the raw QMIPS sidescan-sonar data that were used to generate the sidescan-sonar mosaic. Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Jenna Hill Originator: William C. Schwab Originator: William Danforth Publication_Date: 2000 Publication_Time: unknown Title: Archive of sidescan-sonar data and Differential Geographic Positioning System navigation data collected during USGS cruise Seax96004, New York Bight, 1 May - 9 June 1996. Edition: 1 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Raw digital QMIPS sonar data Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 00-153 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Schwab, William C. Originator: Denny, Jane F. Originator: Foster, David S. Originator: Lotto, Linda L. Originator: Allison, Mead A. Originator: Uchupi, Elazar Originator: Swift, B. Ann Originator: Danforth, William W. Originator: Thieler, E. Robert Originator: Butman, Bradford Publication_Date: 2002 Title: High-Resolution Quaternary seismic stratigraphy of the New York Bight Continental Shelf Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Maps, remote sensing imagery, tabular digital data, and raster and vector digital data Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 02-152 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program Online_Linkage: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/newyork Type_of_Source_Media: DVD Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 19960501 Ending_Date: 19960609 Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Data Archive - SEAX96007 Source_Contribution: These are the raw QMIPS sidescan-sonar data that were used to generate the sidescan-sonar mosaic. Process_Step: Process_Description: The sidescan-sonar data were acquired with a Datasonics SIS 1000 CHIRP sonar system, which operates in a frequency range of 100 - 120 kHz. The sidescan-sonar imagery of the New York Bight region is comprised of data acquired on seven geophysical cruises operated by the USGS during 1995 - 1998. All sidescan-sonar data were logged digitally at a sample rate resulting in a 0.18-m pixel size in the across-track direction and approximately 0.14-m in the along-track direction following the methodology outlined in Danforth and others (1991). A median filtering routine (Malinverno and others, 1990) was applied to the sidescan-sonar data to remove speckle noise, resulting in a 0.73-m pixel size. The data for each survey were further processed and digitally mosaicked using PCI Geomatica Software and procedures described in Danforth and others (1991), Danforth (1997), and Paskevich (1992) resulting in an enhanced, geographically correct, sidescan-sonar mosaic with 4 meters/pixel resolution. The seven individual images were then mosaicked to form one composite sidescan-sonar image for the New York Bight region. The composite mosaic has a resolution of 16 meters/pixel. The composite mosaic was exported as a TIFF image, with an associated ESRI world file. Process_Date: 1999 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Jane F. Denny Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geologist Contact_Address: 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 x2311 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jdenny@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The sidescan-sonar image was clipped to the extent of the 1995 and 1996 geophysical surveys using the GRIDCLIP script within ArcView 3.2. Process_Date: 2000 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Jane F. Denny Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geologist Contact_Address: 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 x2311 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jdenny@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The TIFF image (sonar.tif) was compressed using LizardTech, MrSID GeoSpatial Encoder 1.3.1. This software compresses the image at a specified ratio, which is 20:1 by default. An associated sdw file accompanies the .sid file. The .sdw is an ESRI world file for the given .sid image file. In order to view these data within ArcView, the MrSID Image Support extension must be loaded. Once, the extension is loaded, the .sid image file can be loaded into ArcView as an Image. Process_Date: 2000 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Jane F. Denny Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geologist Contact_Address: 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 x2311 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jdenny@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: 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.). Reformatted the source contribution information - adding the information that the data are not available online. 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: 20160413 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: An error was fixed in one of the originator names. Process_Date: 20180130 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: 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: 20191118 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. 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To utilize this data, the user must have an image viewer, image processing or GIS software package capable of importing a GeoTIFF image. Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20240318 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Jane F. Denny Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geologist Contact_Address: 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 x2311 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. 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