1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System
  3. Dataset 26908

Dataset description: 201410_Single_Beam_XYZ_ Wilderness_Breach.zip

Wilderness Breach Single-Beam XYZ point data
Keywordssea-floor characteristics, single-beam echo sounder, geomorphology, geophysics, geospatial datasets, GPS measurement, marine geology, bathymetry
Formatxyz
Amount4 MB

Contacts

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Timothy R Nelson
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Location of materials and files

Public fileshttps://doi.org/10.3133/ds1034
Metadatahttps://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/spcmsc/201410_Single_Beam_XYZ_Wilderness_Breach.xml
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Activities and equipment

ActivityEquipment
2014-325-FASinglebeam Echosounder
A singlebeam echosounder is a widely used hydrographic instrument for measuring water depth by sending a single acoustic pulse directly downward and recording the time it takes for the echo to return from the seabed.