Page C. Valentine
2021
Video transects of the sea floor on Stellwagen Bank during U.S. Geological Survey field activity 2016-004-FA, aboard the R/V Auk, January 28, 2016
1.0
vector digital dataset (polyline)
data release
DOI:10.5066/P934L7PN
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program
https://doi.org/10.5066/P934L7PN
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2016-004-FA/
Page C. Valentine
VeeAnn A. Cross
2021
Station Information, Seabed Imagery, and CTD Instrument Data Collected on Stellwagen Bank in January 2016, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2016-004-FA
1.0
data release
DOI:10.5066/P934L7PN
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
Suggested citation: Valentine, P.C., and Cross, V.A., 2021, Station information, seabed imagery, and CTD instrument data collected on Stellwagen Bank in January 2016, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2016-004-FA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P934L7PN .
https://doi.org/10.5066/P934L7PN
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2016-004-FA/
This field activity is part of the effort to map geologic substrates of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts. The overall goal is to develop high-resolution (1:25,000) interpretive maps, based on multibeam sonar data and seabed sampling, showing surficial geology and seabed sediment dynamics. This cruise was conducted in collaboration with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the data collected will aid research on the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the region. The Sanctuary's research vessel, R/V Auk, visited 19 locations on Stellwagen Bank at which a customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a CTD was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties.
These video tracklines indicate where imagery data of the sea floor were collected. This information will be used in making the seabed geologic map.
Additional information regarding the field activity can be obtained from https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-004-FA . The grain-size analyses of the sediment samples collected during this field activity are available in a separate publication (Valentine and Cross, 2019; link available from the cross-reference citation).
20160128
Ground condition of when data were collected. There was one day of data collection: January 28, 2016.
None planned
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USGS Metadata Identifier
USGS:80954c7f-6106-475f-937f-4ae6a23d3461
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U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program
CMHRP
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
WHCMSC
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA
SEABed Observation and Sampling System
SEABOSS
stations
navigation
video
trackline
polyline shapefile
ISO 19115 Topic Category
oceans
location
USGS Thesaurus
videos
navigational data
marine geology
videography
Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB) keywords
video observation
None
North America
United States
Massachusetts
Atlantic Ocean
Stellwagen Bank
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
SBNMS
Massachusetts Bay
None.
None.
U.S. Geological Survey
Page C. Valentine
Research Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2239
(508) 457-2310
pvalentine@usgs.gov
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2016-004-FA/data/imagery/2016-004-FA_video_driftlines_browse.jpg
Browse graphic showing the video drift lines.
JPEG
D.S. Blackwood
K.F. Parolski
2001
Seabed observation and sampling system
Sea Technology
v. 42, no. 2, p.39-43
Arlington, VA
Compass Publications, Inc.
This is an article describing the development of the SEABOSS. This can be helpful to get an idea of what the system looks like, even though specific equipment associated with it has changed over time.
P. Valentine
D. Blackwood
K. Parolski
2000
Seabed observation and sampling system
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet
FS-142-00
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
This is a short, older publication describing the SEABOSS. This can be helpful to get an idea of what the system looks like, even though specific equipment associated with it has changed over time.
https://doi.org/10.3133/fs14200
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs142-00/
Page C. Valentine
VeeAnn A. Cross
2019
Location and analyses of sediment samples collected on Stellwagen Bank off Boston, Massachusetts from November 5, 2013 to April 30, 2019 on U.S. Geological Survey field activities
data release
DOI:10.5066/P9FWFLPD
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
This publication includes the sediment sample analyses information associated with this field activity and 19 other field activities.
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FWFLPD
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5d95153ee4b0c4f70d10a4f7
Each record within the shapefile has the same fields and the attribute values were derived in the same manner.
This dataset represents the video trackline information for every video drift obtained during this cruise.
The location information for stations was acquired from a satellite navigation receiver (Furuno Satellite Compass SC-30 GPS receiver) at two-second intervals with a horizontal accuracy of 10 m. The navigation antenna is located 5.3 m forward of the SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) deployment location. This offset was not accounted for in the navigation acquisition (navigation fixes represent antenna location). The SEABOSS may also drift away from the survey vessel when deployed to the sea floor.
Seabed videos were collected using two battery-operated, high-definition (1920 x 1080 pixels) GoPro Hero 4 Black digital video cameras mounted on the SEABOSS. See the cross-references for additional description of the SEABOSS system. The SEABOSS system had two GoPro cameras and a SeaViewer 6000 HD Sea-Drop video camera attached to it. The SeaViewer camera had a live feed to the surface and was used only to observe obstacles, like gill nets and lobster gear, in order to avoid entanglement. One of the GoPro cameras was the primary video acquisition camera and in case of camera failure, the additional cameras provided backup video.
As the SEABOSS drifted over the seabed, the GoPro cameras imaged the seabed at a rate of 60 frames per second from an altitude of ~1 meter. Lighting was provided by two, battery-operated Keldan LED video lights. Each light provided a light flux of up to 9000 lumens at a correlated color temperature of 5000 kelvins. Two parallel red lasers mounted 20 centimeters apart provided a scale in the video images.
Video imagery includes the launch and recovery of the SEABOSS, transit through the water column, and the drift over the seabed. The duration of individual video files ranges from 3.3 to 5.6 minutes. Video files are archived in .MP4 format and range in size from 0.8 to 1.3 gigabytes.
These video files are not available as part of this data release. Video files are archived at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, 384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543.
The position (latitude and longitude) and time of the start of the video drift was recorded from the navigation receiver by hand in the log book when the SEABOSS reached the seabed and when it left the seabed. Latitude and longitude positions recorded by hand in the log book were later adjusted to match the data recorded in the GPS navigation file based on time. Video was recorded during the descent through the water column (1-2 minutes), during the drift over the seabed, and during the ascent.
2016
U.S. Geological Survey
Page C. Valentine
Research Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2239
(508) 457-2310
pvalentine@usgs.gov
The original raw $GPGGA navigation was run through an AWK script (awkauk_rndissue.gpgga, on a machine running Cygwin - www.cygwin.com) to reformat the latitudes and longitudes into decimal degrees and output the data into a comma-delimited text file with the following columns of information: latitude (decimal degrees out to five decimal places), longitude (decimal degrees out to five decimal places), hour, minute, second, Julian day, and year. The Julian day was determined by the original date in the filename of the navigation file as the GPGGA string does not contain any date information. The script made sure to round the latitude and longitude values to five decimal places in the same way that Excel would round the values. The AWK script also made sure that there were no duplicate records in terms of time, such as two navigation points recorded at 16:38:23. Depending on the boat drift rate, navigation fixes carried out to only five decimal places could have duplicate fixes. The individual navigation files were concatenated into a single file in order of acquisition. This process step and the remaining process steps were performed by the same person, VeeAnn A. Cross.
2020
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
Another AWK script (awkdrift_pullstartend) was run on the stations summary CSV file to extract the following columns of information: station, Julian day of video start, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) time of video start, Julian day of video end, UTC time of video end, and year.
2020
A Python script (driftlog_gui_v5.py) run from Python IDLE version 2.7.14 on Windows 10 was used to extract all the navigation points from the navigation file based on the start and end time of the video drift and combine these into polylines. Ideally, there is a match of the same time (with a corresponding navigation fix) in the GPS file to the start and end video times recorded in the log book. However, if this situation does not exist, then the closest (in time) navigation record to the start and end time of the video transect is used, along with all the navigation points in between those two times. These extracted points were then combined into a polyline shapefile. The resulting shapefile has a polyline for every video drift. Based on the navigation system, the coordinate system of the dataset was set to geographic coordinates, WGS 84.
2020
Vector
String
19
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0.00001
Decimal degrees
D_WGS_1984
WGS_1984
6378137.000000
298.257224
2016-004-FA_video_driftlines.shp
polyline shapefile of video drift transects
U.S. Geological Survey
FID
Internal feature number.
Esri
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Shape
Feature geometry.
Esri
Coordinates defining the features.
ID
Unique identifier for each record in the polyline shapefile.
U.S. Geological Survey
0
19
Survey
Name or number of cruise on which the sample was collected. The cruise identifier is in the format YYYY-XXX-FA where YYYY is the survey year, XXX is the survey number of that year, and FA is Field Activity.
U.S. Geological Survey
Character string.
Station
Sample or station name or number as assigned in the field by the Chief Scientist.
U.S. Geological Survey
Character set. Although numeric, stations could have a decimal number indicating a reoccupation of a station.
Year
Year the station was occupied.
U.S. Geological Survey
2016
2016
JD
Julian day of the video drift based on the date in UTC time at the deployment of the SEABOSS. Julian day is the integer number representing the interval of time in days since January 1 of the year of collection.
U.S. Geological Survey
28
28
LineStart
Start time of the video drift when the SEABOSS reached the seabed as recorded in the log book in UTC time in the format HH:MM:SS.
U.S. Geological Survey
Number represented as a text field.
LineEnd
End time of the video drift when the SEABOSS left the seabed as recorded in the log book in UTC time in the format HH:MM:SS.
U.S. Geological Survey
Number represented as a text field.
GPSStart
Time in the GPS navigation file that is closest to the start time of the video drift as recorded in the log book in UTC time in the format HH:MM:SS.
U.S. Geological Survey
Number represented as a text field.
GPSEnd
Time in the GPS navigation file that is closest to the end time of the video drift as recorded in the log book in UTC time in the format HH:MM:SS.
U.S. Geological Survey
Number represented as a text field.
U.S. Geological Survey
Page C. Valentine
Research Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
USA
(508) 548-8700 x2239
(508) 457-2310
pvalentine@usgs.gov
2016-004-FA_video_driftlines.zip contains the video drift lines shapefile (2016-004-FA_video_driftlines.shp and other files associated with a shapefile), the browse graphic (2016-004-FA_video_driftlines_browse.jpg), and FGDC CSDGM metadata in XML format.
Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data for other purposes, nor on all computer systems, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. The USGS or the U.S. Government shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. Neither the U.S. Government, the Department of the Interior, nor the USGS, 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 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.
Shapefile
ArcGIS 10.6.1
The ZIP file contains the video drift transects polyline shapefile, browse graphic, and FGDC CSDGM metadata.
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https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2016-004-FA/data/imagery/2016-004-FA_video_driftlines.zip
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2016-004-FA/
https://doi.org/10.5066/P934L7PN
The first link is to download the data in a ZIP file. The second and third links, the latter of which is the DOI designation of the publication, both go to the landing page of the data.
none
The ZIP file contains data in Esri shapefile format. The user must have software capable of uncompressing the ZIP file and reading the data format.
20210524
U.S. Geological Survey
VeeAnn A. Cross
Marine Geologist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2251
508-457-2310
vatnipp@usgs.gov
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998