Jane F. Denny
2003
02031 - Geophysical Surveys of Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho, September 2002 - Sidescan-sonar Tracklines (SSS_TRK)
digital vector data
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr03150
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-150/arcview/shape/tracks/sss_trk.zip
J.F. Denny
S.M. Colman
2003
Geophysical Surveys of Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho, September, 2002
1.0
Open-File Report
03-150
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-150/
Bear Lake is a tectonic lake that has existed for at least several hundred thousand years. The lake basin is a relatively simple half graben, a spoon-shaped depression tilted toward the main fault on the east side of the lake. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with researchers from several universities, has been studying the sediments of Bear Lake since 1996. The general purpose of this effort is to reconstruct past limnological conditions and regional climate on a range of timescales, from hundreds of years to hundreds of thousands of years. This research relates to a variety of human concerns, including water usage in the Bear River basin. Past work has included several coring operations, a seismic-reflection survey, sediment-trap deployments, a barge-mounted drilling operation with the GLAD800 drill rig, and a variety of other studies.
The objectives of the September, 2002 operations, preliminarily reported here, were (1) to compile a detailed bathymetric map of the lake using swath-mapping techniques, in order to provide baseline data for a variety of applications and studies, and (2) to complete a sidescan-sonar survey of the lake, providing a nearly complete acoustic image of the lake floor. Limited amounts of subbottom acoustic-reflection data (chirp) were also collected, along with samples of lake-floor sediments representative of different kinds of backscatter patterns. These surveys followed an earlier subbottom acoustic-reflection survey (1997), using boomer and 3.5 kHz systems (S. M. Colman, unpublished data).
These data represent sidescan-sonar trackline navigation data during geophysical survey in Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho.
20020904
20020916
publication date
None planned
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42.2
41.08
USGS Metadata Identifier
USGS:8ce66bc3-2585-43ad-9184-873deb788054
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Sidescan-Sonar
Edgetech
CW System
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
CMGP
Woods Hole Science Center
WHSC Field Activity Number 02031
ISO 19115 Topic Category
transportation
location
geoscientificInformation
USGS Thesaurus
navigational data
geophysics
geospatial datasets
none
Bear Lake
Utah
Idaho
North America
United States
None
The U.S. Geological Survey must be referenced as the originator of the dataset in any future publications.
Jane F. Denny
U.S. Geological Survey
Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2311
(508) 457-2310
jdenny@usgs.gov
ArcView version 3.2 shapefile format
These navigation data have been stripped from the header of sidescan-sonar data. They have been quality checked by comparing these data to navigation data acquired during cruise operations.
Complete
WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) Navigation was used to acquire navigation information. WAAS is considered to have a horizontal accuracy of < 3 meters. The WAAS data were recorded in the header of the sidescan-sonar raw data. The sidescan-sonar tow-vehicle was towed close to the surface at a static height, adjacent to the vessel. WAAS locations were assumed for the sidescan-sonar tow-vehicle. The sidescan-soanr tow-vehicle was assumed to be navigated to an accuracy of +/- 5 meters.
The sidescan-sonar navigation is received by the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) GPS network, sent directly to the sidescan-sonar acquisition system from the Coastal Oceanographics, Inc. Hypack navigation system, and recorded in the QMIPS header of each file. The navigation is later extracted from the header, and formatted into a comma-delimited ArcView Ungenerate text format. The file is then imported into ArcView, and a vector line shapefile is generated. The line numbers for each trackline are stored in an ASCII file listing unique track ID and line number. This file is imported into ArcView 3.2 as a table. The file is then joined to the line shapefile by the unique track ID. The table for the trackline file is the editted, a new field created, the line number information written to this new field, the join removed, and the file saved. This permantely saves the line number with the corresponding trackline.
2003
Jane F. Denny
U.S. Geological Survey
Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2311
(508) 457-2310
jdenny@usgs.gov
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Woods Hole
MA
02543
508-548-8700 x2251
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USGS Thesaurus keywords added to the keyword section.
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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
Vector
Complete chain
39
0.000089992
0.000089992
decimal degrees
WGS84
WGS84
6378137.0000000
298.26
Sidescan-Sonar System: Trackline
Shapefile attribute table
ArcView 3.2
FID
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Shape
internal ArcView 3.2 ID
ArcView 3.2
ArcView 3.2
LENGTH
Information unavailable from original metadata.
Information unavailable from original metadata.
Information unavailable from original metadata.
Length
ArcView 3.2 internal ID
ESRI ArcView 3.2
ArcView 3.2
LINE
Information unavailable from original metadata.
Information unavailable from original metadata.
Information unavailable from original metadata.
ID
ArcView 3.2 internal ID
ArcView 3.2
ArcView 3.2
Line
Line Number
SEG-Y header
Line Number
Jane F. Denny
U.S. Geological Survey
Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2311
(508) 457-2310
jdenny@usgs.gov
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SHP
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Jane F. Denny
U.S. Geological Survey
Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2311
(508) 457-2310
whsc_data_contact@usgs.gov
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