U.S. Geological Survey National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2007 1.0 remote-sensing image Open-File Report 2006-1357 Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program Also available on DVD-ROM https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20061357 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1357/html/catalog.html http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1357/data/sidescan/geo/h11076_geo_1msss.zip http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1357/data/sidescan/geo/ L.J. Poppe S.D. Ackerman D.S. Foster D.S. Blackwood B. Butman M.S. Moser H.F. Stewart 2007 1.0 Open-File Report 2006-1357 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey 1 DVD-ROM http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1357/ The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (MA CZM), is producing detailed geologic maps of the coastal sea floor. Imagery, originally collected by NOAA for charting purposes, provide a fundamental framework for research and management activities along this part of the Massachusetts coastline, show the composition and terrain of the seabed, and provide information on sediment transport and benthic habitat. Interpretive data layers were derived from multibeam echo-sounder and sidescan sonar data collected in the vicinity of Quicks Hole, a passage through the Elizabeth Islands that extend in a chain southwestward off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In June 2005, bottom photographs and surficial sediment data were acquired as part of a ground-truth reconaissance survey. To release a GeoTIFF of the 100-kHz sidescan sonar data generated during National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) survey H11076 in Quicks Hole, Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts, in geographic. 2004 ground condition Complete None planned -70.883908554049 -70.802235022629006 41.490687233954496 41.407905092340499 USGS Metadata Identifier USGS:db4fa99b-985d-4756-8ae0-baa21d870975 None U.S. Geological Survey USGS Woods Hole Science Center Sidescan Sonar Coastal and Marine Geology Program CMGP WHSC Klein 5250 NOAA Survey H11076 H11076 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA GeoTIFF Open-File Report 2006-1357 ISO 19115 Topic Category oceans geoscientificInformation imageryBaseMapsEarthCover Data Categories for Marine Planning distributions physical habitats and geomorphology Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB) Keywords seabed sidescan sonar marine geophysics USGS Thesaurus sidescan sonar image mosaics marine geophysics sea-floor characteristics sea-floor acoustic reflectivity None Massachusetts Elizabeth Islands Cape Cod U.S. East Coast United States North America Atlantic Ocean Quicks Hole None Public domain data are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as the originators of this information. U.S. Geological Survey Larry Poppe Geologist mailing and physical address

384 Woods Hole Road

Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 (508) 548-8700 x2314 (508) 457-2310 lpoppe@usgs.gov http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1357/data/sidescan/geo/h11076_geo_1msss.gif Thumbnail image showing the sidescan sonar imagery produced from data collected during NOAA survey H11076 GIF Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.2.1350 Information unavailable from original metadata. All collected data were processed and used to produce this dataset. Navigation was by differential GPS Information unavailable from original metadata. Assumed to be NOAA unknown The source information was incomplete and had to be modified to meet the standard. Only the source media, time period of content, and source contribution were supplied. DVD-ROM 2004 ground condition Information unavailable from original metadata. The original sidescan sonar data acquired with Klein 5250 echosounders during NOAA survey H11076 aboard the NOAA ship Thomas Jefferson. The sidescan sonar data was acquired with a Klein 5250 sidescan sonar tow fish set to sweep 100 m to either side of the launch tracks. The tow fish emits two 50-degree-wide beams tilted down 20-degree from horizontal, and transmits at 100 kHz. The data were acquired in XTF (extended Triton data format), recorded digitally through an ISIS data acquisition system, and processed using CARIS SIPS (Sidescan Image Processing) software for quality control, and to produce an image at 1-m resolution. As part of this process, the sidescan-sonar data were multiplexed and filtered to convert the data into the desired processing format and to remove speckle noise and to correct for slant-range distortions. Image 'shine through', to account for areas of overlap, and auto-contrast adjustment were applied. Tonal artifacts caused by inaccurate across-track normalization present on the sidescan-sonar imagery are minor. Contrast enhancement based on the dynamic range of the data was applied to the mosaic and it was then projected into UTM Zone 19 to produce the final enhanced image. Unknown qh_1m_sss_mosaic.tif Marc Moser National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Field Operations Officer mailing address

439 West York Street

Norfolk VA 23510 (757) 441-6726 The image was imported into a graphics application and the grayscale was inverted to make hard returns light tones and softer returns darker tones. qh_1m_sss_mosaic.tif 2006 h11076_utm19_1msss.tif Seth Ackerman Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management GIS Specialist mailing and physical address

384 Woods Hole Road

Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 (508) 548-8700 x2315 (508) 457-2310 The UTM Zone 19 GeoTIFF was reprojected into Geographic (Datum WGS 84) with the Blue Marble Geographic Transformer software. h11076_utm19_1msss.tif 2006 h11076_geo_1msss.tif Seth Ackerman Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management GIS Specialist mailing and physical address

384 Woods Hole Road

Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 (508) 548-8700 x2315 (508) 457-2310 Edits to the metadata were made to fix any errors that MP v 2.9.30 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.). The source information was incomplete and had to be modified to meet the standard. Only the source media, time period of content, and source contribution were supplied. The geodetic model needed information added to meet the standard. 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. 20151130 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 Keywords section of metadata optimized for discovery in USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Data Catalog. 20170214 U.S. Geological Survey Alan O. Allwardt Contractor -- Information Specialist Mailing and Physical

2885 Mission Street

Santa Cruz CA 95060 831-460-7551 831-427-4748 aallwardt@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 Raster Pixel 9194 6799 1 0.000009 0.000012 Decimal degrees D_WGS_84 WGS84 6378137.000000 298.257224 Larry Poppe U.S. Geological Survey Geologist mailing and physical address

384 Woods Hole Road

Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 (508) 548-8700 x2314 (508) 457-2310 Downloadable Data Although this data set has 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. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. TIFF Information unavailable from original metadata. GeoTIFF The GeoTIFF image (h11076_geo_1msss.tif), world file, and browse graphic. zip archive 30.6 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1357/data/sidescan/geo/h11076_geo_1msss.zip http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1357/data/sidescan/geo/ http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1357/html/catalog.html Data are downloadable via the World Wide Web (WWW). DVD-ROM 4.75 Gbytes UDF None This image is available as a GeoTIFF image with an accompanying world file. To utilize this data, the user must have an image viewer, image processing or GIS software package capable of importing a GeoTIFF image. 2007 20211111 U.S. Geological Survey Larry Poppe Geologist mailing and physical address

384 Woods Hole Road

Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 (508) 548-8700 x2314 (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 FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time None None