Dataset description: FI_sonar5m

Dataset description: FI_sonar5m

5-meter bacscatter mosaic of Bathyswath SWATHplus sonar image collected by the USGS offshore of Fire Island, NY in 2011 (UTM zone 18N, WGS 84, 24-bit continuous unsigned integer GeoTIFF format).

Version	1
Keywords	interferometric sonar, image mosaics, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, geospatial datasets, marine geophysics
Data types	Interferometric
Format	GeoTIFF
Amount	11 MB

Contacts

Contact	William C Schwab WHSC_data_contact@usgs.gov

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Location of materials and files

Public files	https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141203 https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1203/ofr2014-1203-data_catalog.html
Metadata	https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/whcmsc/open_file_report/ofr2014-1203/fi_sonar_5m.xml Outline - Questions and answers - Text - XML

Activities and equipment

Activity	Equipment
2011-005-FA	SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz SWATHplus is a pole-mounted swath bathymetry sonar that can achieve swath widths of ~5 times the water depth. Owned by Woods Hole and Santa Cruz. (wh-sfm)

Geometries linked to this dataset

Map	Name	Description
Map	2011-005-FA_fi_bathy_seis_sonar_footprint	Footprint of 5-meter swath bathymetric grid collected by the U.S. Geological Survey offshore of Fire Island, NY in 2011. Also applies the the 10 m bathymetry as well as the seismic interpreted horizons and the sonar mosaic.