1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System
  3. Dataset 38879

Dataset description: composite_sHatteras_backscatter_enhanced

4 meter sidescan-sonar GeoTIFF image of inner shelf with stretched histogram, from Cape Hatteras, NC to Cape Lookout, NC (composite_shatt_str.tif, UTM, Zone 18N, WGS84)
Version1
Keywordssidescan sonar, image mosaics, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, geospatial datasets, marine geophysics
Data typesSidescan
FormatGeoTIFF;
Amount480 MB

Contacts

Contact
E. Robert Thieler
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Location of materials and files

Public fileshttps://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20111015
Metadatahttps://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/whcmsc/open_file_report/ofr2011-1015/composite_shatt_str.xml
Outline - Questions and answers - Text - XML

Activities and equipment

ActivityEquipment
2003-003-FAKlein 3000
Dual frequency sidescan-sonar, 132/445 kHz
2004-003-FAKlein 3000
Dual frequency sidescan-sonar, 132/445 kHz