U.S. Geological Survey 2013 1.0 vector digital data Open-File Report 2013-1003 Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131003 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1003/data/botphotos/2012-002_023botphotos.zip http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1003/data/botphotos/2012-002_023botphotos.txt http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1003/data/botphotos/2012-002_023botphotos.xls http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1003/html/catalog.html K.Y. McMullen L.J. Poppe S.D. Ackerman D.S. Blackwood P.G. Lewit C.E. Parker 2013 1.0 Open-File Report 2013-1003 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey DVD-ROM http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1003/ The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is producing detailed geologic maps of the coastal sea floor. Bathymetric and sidescan-sonar data, originally collected by NOAA for charting purposes, provide a fundamental framework for research and management activities along this part of Block Island Sound, show the composition and terrain of the seabed, and provide information on sediment transport and benthic habitat. During June 2012, bottom photographs and surficial sediment data were acquired as part of a ground-truth reconnaissance survey of this area. Interpretations were derived from the multibeam-echosounder, sidescan-sonar, sedimentary, and photographic data collected in Block Island Sound. For more information on the ground-truth survey see <http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2012-002-FA>. The purpose of this dataset is to release the locations and identifiers of 129 bottom photographs collected at 26 stations based on topographic data of the seafloor in Block Island Sound. The photos were collected with a modified Van Veen grab sampler modified to carry still and video camera systems (small SEABOSS) during USGS survey 2012-002, in June 2012. 20120611 20120613 ground condition Complete None planned -71.596612 -71.484571 41.367510 41.318885 USGS Metadata Identifier USGS:a1c49e16-6e51-4deb-8a6b-7aaa1949b834 None U.S. Geological Survey USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program CMGP Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center WHCMSC R/V RAFAEL Esri Shapefile bottom photograph locations photo locations stations sea floor Field Activity Number 2012-002-FA ground-truth Open-File Report 2013-1003 point shapefile OFR 2013-1003 SEABOSS Info Bank ID R-02-12-LI ISO 19115 Topic Category location oceans geoscientificInformation USGS Thesaurus navigational data underwater photography geospatial datasets None Block Island Sound North America United States Atlantic Ocean U.S. East Coast Rhode Island 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. Katherine McMullen U.S. Geological Survey Field and Laboratory Technician mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2277 (508) 457-2310 kmcmullen@usgs.gov http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1003/data/botphotos/2012-002_023botphotos.gif Thumbnail image showing location and extent of bottom photo locations in Block Island Sound GIF Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.1850 Dann Blackwood Ken Parolski 2001 1.0 Sea Technology v. 42, no. 2, p. 39-43 L.J. Poppe W.W. Danforth K.Y. McMullen M.A. Blankenship K.A. Glomb D.B. Wright S.M. Smith 2012 Open-File Report 2012-1005 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey DVD-ROM http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1005/ K.Y. McMullen L.J. Poppe S.D. Ackerman D.S. Blackwood J.D. Schaer M.A. Nadeau D.A. Wood 2011 1.0 Open-File Report 2011-1005 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1005/ K.Y. McMullen L.J. Poppe T.A. Haupt J.M. Crocker 2009 1.0 Open-File Report 2008-1181 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1181/ All attributes were checked in a consistent manner No additional checks for topological consistency were performed on this data. Locations of all still photographs of the sea floor in the Block Island Sound H12023 study area collected during the R/V RAFAEL cruise 2012-002 were included in this dataset. Navigation was by differential GPS. Although GPS gave the ship's position rather than that of the SEABOSS, water depths were generally shallow and scope of the cable minimal. Therefore, SEABOSS offset from the antenna was less than 10 m. Information unavailable from original metadata. unknown The orignal metadata only had source information time period of content. In order to pass the metadata harvester, the rest of the required source information fields were populated. Information unavailable from original metadata. 20120611 20120613 ground condition Information unavailable from original metadata. Information unavailable from original metadata. Navigation and time recorded on videotape and in cruise logs were used to identify and register the still photographs. This information was input into an Excel (.xls) file (2003 version). 2012 2012-002_023botphotos.xls Katherine McMullen U.S. Geological Survey Field and Labratory Technician mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2277 (508) 457-2310 kmcmullen@usgs.gov ArcMap 9.2 was used to create a shapefile from the Excel file using Tools-Add XY Data to import the excel file with Longitude in the x field and Latitude in the y field. This file was changed to a shapefile by right clicking on the name, selecting Data-Export Data, exporting all features using the layer's source data coordinate system. 2012-002_023botphotos.xls 2012 2012-002_023botphotos.shp Katherine McMullen U.S. Geological Survey Field and Laboratory Technician mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543 USA 508-548-8700 x2277 508-457-2310 kmcmullen@usgs.gov ArcGIS 9.2 was used to define the projection of the Esri shapefile Geographic WGS84. 2012-002_023botphotos.shp 2012 2012-002_023botphotos.prj Katherine McMullen U.S. Geological Survey Field and Laboratory Technician mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543 USA 508-548-8700 x2277 508-457-2310 kmcmullen@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.). he orignal metadata only had source information time period of content. In order to pass the metadata harvester, the rest of the required source information fields were populated. 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. 20151204 U.S. Geological Survey VeeAnn A. Cross Marine Geologist mailing and physical address

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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

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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

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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

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 508-548-8700 x2251 508-457-2310 vatnipp@usgs.gov Vector Entity point 129 0.000001 0.000001 Decimal degrees D_WGS_1984 WGS_1984 6378137.000000 298.257224 2012-002_023botphotos 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. STATION Sequential identifier assigned to each sample site USGS Characters and numerics identifying sampling sites PHOTO Unique sequential identifier assigned to each photograph USGS Characters and numerics identifying photos DATE_ Month, day, and year when the photograph was taken USGS Character String: Months, days, and year as mm/dd/yyyy LATITUDE Latitude coordinate of photo location, WGS84 USGS 41.318885 41.367510 Decimal degrees 0.000001 LONGITUDE Longitude coordinate of photo location, WGS84 USGS -71.596612 -71.484571 Decimal degrees 0.000001 DEVICE Equipment used to collect the photograph USGS SMALL SEABOSS GRAB USGS Small Seabed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) USGS CRUISEID Cruise identifier USGS 2012-002-FA Field activity serial number assigned by Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center data archives USGS PROJECTID Name of project for which the photographs were taken. USGS SURVEY H12023 IN NORTHERN BLOCK ISLAND SOUND Project name assigned by Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center data archives USGS PRINCIPAL Name of Chief scientist during the cruise USGS KMCMULLEN Katherine McMullen USGS PHOTO_MR Relative disk location of medium-resolution photograph USGS Location of image file JDTIME Date and time when photo was taken in the format JJJ:HH:MM:SS where JJJ is the Julian day, HH is the hour, MM is the minute, and SS is the second. Time is in GMT. Scientist Numerics separated by colons Data layer attributes include date and position photograph was acquired; station and photograph identifiers. The naming convention for photographs is a 4-letter location identification (nbis, referring to northern Block Island Sound), the station number, and a letter of the photograph at that station (multiple photos are often taken at a single location), and the resolution of the photograph if it is not full resolution (mr for medium resolution, and tn for thumbnail). For instance, nbis_4amr.jpg is a photograph from northern Block Island Sound, station 4, photo a, medium resolution and is in JPEG format. Medium resolution photographs can be hyperlinked in this shapefile. In order to effectively utilize this attribute in ArcGIS, the user must follow a couple of steps. First, the user must open the Layer Properties of the bottom photograph shapefile within ArcMap - select the Display tab - and click on the check box next to "Support Hyperlinks using field:" and the field selected from the dropdown menu needs to be "PHOTO_MR". The hyperlink is set to a document. Additionally, a hyperlink base must be supplied in the ArcMap document (mxd) to complete the full path to the images. This is accomplished from File - Document Properties. On the Summary tab there is a section for "Hyperlink base". The text supplied here needs to be the disk information preceding "data" in the full path to the image. If the data are being read from a DVD, this would be the drive letter such as F:\. U.S. Geological Survey Katherine McMullen U.S. Geological Survey Field and Laboratory Technician mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2277 (508) 457-2310 kmcmullen@usgs.gov Downloadable Data Neither the U.S. Government, the Department of the Interior, nor the USGS, nor the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), nor any of their employees, contractors, or subcontractors, make any warranty, express or implied, nor assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, nor represent that its use would not infringe on privately owned rights. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS, or NOAA, 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. SHP ArcView 3.3 ESRI point shapefile A zip file containing the geospatial data, metadata describing the data set, the comma-delimited text file and Excel 2003 (.xls) file of the photograph data, and a browse graphic showing the data layer coverage and extent. zip archive 0.9 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1003/data/botphotos/2012-002_023botphotos.zip http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1003/html/catalog.html Data are downloadable via the Internet. DVD-ROM 4.75 Gbytes UDF XLS 2003 Excel file First record contains field headings no compression applied 0.05 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1003/data/botphotos/2012-002_023botphotos.xls http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1003/html/catalog.html Data are downloadable via the Internet. DVD-ROM 4.75 Gbytes UDF ASCII Information unavailable from original metadata. text file First record contains field headings. Data fields are comma separated. no compression applied 0.03 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1003/data/botphotos/2012-002_023botphotos.txt http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1003/html/catalog.html Data are downloadable via the Internet. DVD-ROM 4.75 Gbytes UDF None These data are available in Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) shapefile format. The user must have ArcGIS or ArcView 3.0 or greater software to read and process the data file. In lieu of ArcView or ArcGIS, the user may utilize another GIS application package capable of importing data. A free data viewer, ArcExplorer, capable of displaying the data is available from Esri at www.esri.com. The user must have software capable of uncompressing archived zip files, such as Winzip or Pkware. These data are available as an Excel formatted (.xls) file. The user must have a software program capable of reading Excel files. These data are available as a generic ASCII formatted text file. The user must have a software program capable of reading the comma-delimited data file. 2013 20211116 Katherine McMullen U.S. Geological Survey Field and Laboratory Technician mailing and physical address

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Woods Hole MA 02543-1598 USA (508) 548-8700 x2277 (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. FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time None None