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Range of values | |
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Minimum: | -8500 |
Maximum: | -0 |
Units: | meters |
Resolution: | 10 |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) for creating the ETOPO2 dataset from which the contours were derived.
To supplements the main featured mosaic images of the Puerto Rico trench survey with a Caribbean Sea below ocean surface relief model.
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Are there legal restrictions on access or use of the data?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.
Although these data sets are used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by NOAA or 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 NOAA or the USGS in the use of these data.
Data format: | The individual files that comprise the shapefiles: bathy_500m.dbf, bathy_500m.prj, bathy_500m.sbn, bathy_500m.shp, and bathy_500m.shx are in the zip file. in format Shapefile (version ArcView 3.2) ESRI polygon shapefile Size: 11.405 |
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Network links: |
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1066/data/bathymetry/bathy_500m/bathy_500m.zip |
Media you can order: |
DVD-ROM
(Density 4700
Mbyte)
(format UDF)
Note: The user must have a computer system with a DVD-ROM available. To browse the information contained on this DVD-ROM, the user must have a current WWW browser available. The user must also have software installed on their computer to unzip the archived file. |
The data is available in Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) shapefile format. The user must have ArcView 3.+ or ArcGIS 8.+ to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView/ArcGIS, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing data.