U.S. Geological Survey
2016
Trackline navigation for swath interferometric bathymetry data collected in 2015 by the U.S. Geological Survey along the Delmarva Peninsula, MD and VA (Esri polyline shapefile, GCS WGS 84).
1.0
vector digital data
data release
DOI:10.5066/F7P55KK3
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
https://doi.org/10.5066/F7P55KK3
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2015-001-FA/data/bathymetry/tracklines/2015-001-FA_bathytracks.zip
Edward M. Sweeney
Elizabeth A. Pendleton
Seth D. Ackerman
Brian D. Andrews
Wayne E. Baldwin
William W. Danforth
David S. Foster
E. Robert Thieler
Laura L. Brothers
2016
High-resolution geophysical data collected along the Delmarva Peninsula 2015, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2015-001-FA
2.0
data release
DOI:10.5066/F7P55KK3
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
https://doi.org/10.5066/F7P55KK3
The Delmarva Peninsula is a 220-kilometer-long headland, spit, and barrier island complex that was significantly affected by Hurricane Sandy in the fall of 2012. The U.S. Geological Survey conducted cruises during the summers of 2014 and 2015 to map the inner continental shelf of the Delmarva Peninsula using geophysical and sampling techniques to define the geologic framework that governs coastal system evolution at storm-event and longer timescales. Geophysical data collected during the cruises include swath bathymetric, sidescan sonar, chirp and boomer seismic reflection profiles, grab sample and bottom photograph data. More information about the USGS survey conducted as part of the Hurricane Sandy Response-- Geologic Framework and Coastal Vulnerability Study can be found at the project website or on the WHCMSC Field Activity Web pages: https://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/delmarva/, https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2014-002-FA and https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2015-001-FA. Data collected during the 2014 survey can be obtained here: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7MW2F60
This dataset contains trackline navigation for approximately 5,500 km of swath interferometric bathymetry data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey during cruise 2015-001-FA along the Delmarva Peninsula, MD and VA. This information can help spatially correlate the bathymetric data with other data in the GIS.
20150610
20150714
ground condition; data were not collected on 20150628 (transition between Legs 1 and 2 of the survey)
None planned.
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U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
WHCMSC
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
CMGP
Interferometric bathymetry
SWATHplus-M
Bathyswath
swath bathymetry
shapefile
trackline navigation
survey line
interferometry
field activity number 2015-001-FA
bathymetry
Marine Geology
ISO 19115 Topic Category
oceans
location
None
Atlantic Ocean
Delmarva Peninsula
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
Assateague Island
Assateague Island National Seashore
Chincoteague Island
Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
Chincoteague Inlet
Chincoteague Bay
Wallops Island
Parramore Island
Cobb Island
Wreck Island
Ship Shoal Island
Myrtle Island
Smith Island
Fisherman Island
Hog 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 as the originator of the dataset.
Edward M. Sweeney
U.S. Geological Survey
Physical Scientist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
Massachusetts
02543-1598
USA
508-548-8700 x2256
508-457-2310
emsweeney@usgs.gov
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2015-001-FA/data/bathymetry/tracklines/2015-001-FA_bathytracks_browse.jpg
Thumbnail image of swath bathymetry tracklines for Delmarva Peninsula.
JPEG
Elizabeth A. Pendleton
Seth D. Ackerman
Wayne E. Baldwin
William W. Danforth
David S. Foster
E. Robert Thieler
Laura L. Brothers
2015
High-resolution geophysical data collected along the Delmarva Peninsula 2014, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2014-002-FA
3.0
webpage
data release
DOI:10.5066/F7MW2F60
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
https://doi.org/10.5066/F7MW2F60
These swath bathymetry data were collected at 200 meter line spacing. The M/V Scarlet Isabella can only survey in water depths greater than 8 meters, so there are some gaps in the survey lines where the vessel had to avoid crossing shallow shoals. Most of the gaps were planned with breaks in tracklines or maneuvers around the shoals. Most of the data were acquired roughly parallel to the orientation of Assateague Island at an average speed of 5 knots. Line numbering begins at line 1 and ends at line 183. Any spurious bathymetry navigation data points were removed during processing.
This shapefile includes trackline navigation from all the swath bathymetric data that was collected within the survey area. However, only quality sonar data along the main survey lines were included in the final bathymetry grid. Noisy or poor quality data were not included in the grid, but the line navigation are included in this shapefile. Data along tie and transit lines were not included in the final grid or in the navigation shapefile.
Navigation data were acquired in WGS 84 coordinate system with an Applanix Wavemaster POS MV, which blends Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) with acceleration data from a Motion Reference Unit (MRU) and GPS azimuthal heading. The POS MV uses a dual antenna array with a designated primary and secondary antenna. Positions from the primary (forward) Applanix antenna were sent via Ethernet satellite link (from a KVH Mini-VSAT Broadband receiver) to shore stations in MD and VA. Returned Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services (RTCM) 3.1 position corrections were passed through to the Applanix Wavemaster and applied to the Submetrix System for Real Time Kinematic (RTK) position solutions (accurate to less than 1 m, horizontally). Backup Differential Global Positioning System + Wide Area Augmentation System (DGPS+WAAS), which is accurate to within 2 m horizontally, were also acquired using an Ashtech Proflex 800; however, the backup DGPS and WAAS data were not implemented into the bathymetry data since the primary POS MV positioning provided continuous data throughout the survey. Positional offsets from the primary antenna to the MRU were corrected within the BathySwath acquisition software.
U.S. Geological Survey
Unpublished Material
raw swath bathymetry data
vector digital data
disc
20150610
20150714
ground condition; data were not collected on 20150628 (transition between Legs 1 and 2 of the survey).
raw bathymetry
USGS used a 234 kHz Systems Engineering and Assessment Ltd. (SEA) SWATHplus-M (now Bathyswath) interferometric sonar pole-mounted on the port side of the M/V Scarlett Isabella. Survey lines were run at an average speed of 5 knots and were spaced 200 m apart in the nearshore to approximately 3-km apart in the offshore. Full data coverage was obtained for sidescan sonar data, but not for bathymetric data. The SEA SWATHplus-M operates at a variable range (increased or decreased manually depending on water depth, but generally 85 m on both sides). The system was operated with a transmit power of 80 percent, a transmit length of 43 cycles, and 4096 samples per channel. Sound-velocity profiles were collected continuously with an ODIM MVP30 moving vessel profiler. Tides were corrected using a zone tidal model with observed tides from gauges in Atlantic City, NJ; Lewes, DE; Chesapeake Bay-Bridge-Tunnel, VA; and Duck, NC.
Survey navigation information is stored within each raw (.sxr) data file. Each raw SWATHPlus bathymetric sonar file (.sxr) was converted to a SWATHplus processed file (.sxp) using SEA SWATHplus Swath Processor (vers. 3.10.6.0). This step and subsequent steps were performed by Wayne Baldwin.
2015
U.S. Geological Survey
Wayne Baldwin
Physical Scientist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2226
508-457-2310
wbaldwin@usgs.gov
A new Computer Aided Resource Information System (CARIS) Hydrographic Information Processing System (HIPS) project (vers. 9.0.14) was created with projection information set to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N, WGS 84. Each SWATHplus processed file (sxp) was imported to the new CARIS project using the Import/Conversion Wizard. Navigation was checked and edited as needed using the Navigation Editor tool.
2015
U.S. Geological Survey
Wayne Baldwin
Physical Scientist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2226
508-457-2310
wbaldwin@usgs.gov
AWK, Python and Shell scripts were used to extract and reformat the navigation fixes stored in the CARIS HIPS database and add them to a geospatial SQLite (version 3.7.9) database. The processing flow for this step follows:
A. Extract navigation for each line in CARIS HDCS directory using the CARIS program printfNav for all the lines. (Extracted navigation file is tab-delimited in format YYYY-JD HH:MM:SS:FFF DD.LAT DD.LONG SSSSS_VVVVV_YYYY-JD_LLLL AR where YYYY=year, JD=Julian Day, HH=hour, MM=minute, SS=seconds, FFF=fractions of a second, DD.LAT=latitude in decimal degrees, DD.LONG=longitude in decimal degrees, SSSSS=survey name, VVVVV=vessel name, LLLL=linename, AR=accepted or rejected navigation fix). This step creates the directory of TXT navigation files for each survey line in the CARIS project.
B. The output TXT files from the printfNav process are parsed to remove rejected navigation records then reformatted into CSV files containing additional fields for survey ID, vessel name and system name using Shell and AWK scripts.
C. A Python script (pySQLBathNav) runs on each reformatted CSV file parsing the file from each record and adding points to a SQLite database (which is created if it does not already exist). The pySQLBathNav script creates both point and trackline navigation for each survey line.
D. When all of the survey lines have been processed into SQLite database, a polyline shapefile is exported from the database using the spatialite_tool command (Spatialite version 3.0.1).
Steps B, C and D were all run within a shell script called printfnavconv.
2015
U.S. Geological Survey
Wayne Baldwin
Physical Scientist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2226
508-457-2310
wbaldwin@usgs.gov
XTools Pro (version 12.0) for ArcGIS desktop was used (TABLE OPERATIONS - TABLE RESTRUCTURE) to rename long attribute headings in the polyline shapefile's attribute table. Table attributes for the survey line ('LineName' remained the same), Year and Julian day ('Year_JD_init' was changed to 'Yr_JD_ini') survey line started, Julian day and UTC time ('JD_UTC_init' was changed to 'JD_UTC_ini') survey line started, Year and Julian day that the survey line ended ('Year_JD_end' was changed to 'Yr_JD_end'), Julian day and UTC time that the survey line ended ('JD_UTC_end' remained the same), survey ID ('SurveyID' remained the same), survey vessel name ('VehicleID' remained the same), device used to collect the data ('DeviceID' remained the same) and length field ('Length_km' remained the same).
2015
U.S. Geological Survey
Edward M. Sweeney
Physical Scientist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2256
508-457-2310
emsweeney@usgs.gov
The online links to the data were updated to reflect the new server hosting the data. Additionally, other small edits could be made to the metadata, such as modifying http to https where appropriate. The metadata date (but not the metadata creator) was edited to reflect the date of these changes.
20170419
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
Vector
Entity point
706
0.000001
0.000001
Decimal degrees
D_WGS_1984
WGS_1984
6378137.000000
298.257224
2015-001-FA_bathytracks
Swath bathymetry tracklines for survey 2015-001-FA along the Delmarva Peninsula.
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.
LineName
Name of the trackline along which swath bathymetric data were collected in the format: line number (i.e. 'l1') + file number (i.e. 'f1') + bathymetry file type (i.e. '_sxp').
U.S. Geological Survey
Character set
Yr_JD_ini
Year and Julian date at the start of the survey line in the format: YYYY-JD; where Julian day is the integer number (although recorded here in text string format) representing the interval of time in days since January 1 of the year of collection.
U.S. Geological Survey
Character set
JD_UTC_ini
Julian day and UTC time at the start of the survey line in the format: JD:HH:MM:SS; Julian day is the integer number (although recorded here in text string format) representing the interval of time in days since January 1 of the year of collection.
U.S. Geological Survey
Character set
Yr_JD_end
Year and Julian date at the end of the survey line.
U.S. Geological Survey
Character set
JD_UTC_end
JulianDay:HH:MM:SS of the end of the survey line.
U.S. Geological Survey
Character set
SurveyID
WHCMSC field activity identifier (e.g. "2015-001-FA" where 2015 is the survey year, 001 is survey number of that year, and FA is Field Activity).
U.S. Geological Survey
Character set
VehicleID
Survey vessel name.
U.S. Geological Survey
Character set
DeviceID
Sonar device used to collect swath bathymetry.
U.S. Geological Survey
Character set
Length_km
Length of swath data line in kilometers (UTM Zone 18N, WGS84).
U.S. Geological Survey
0.14
22.218
kilometers
0.001
Edward M. Sweeney
U.S. Geological Survey
Physical Scientist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
Massachusetts
02543
USA
508-548-8700 x2256
508-457-2310
emsweeney@usgs.gov
USGS data release 2015-001-FA bathymetry trackline data from the Delmarva Peninsula area (2015-001-FA_bathytracks.zip). The zip file contains a folder with the following shapefile: 2015-001-FA_bathytracks.shp, a browse graphic (2015-001-FA_bathytracks_browse.jpg) and Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) metadata files (2015-001-FA_bathytracks.xml) in four standard formats are also included in the zip file.
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
Spatialite version 3.0.1
Shapefile
The WinZip (version 14.0) file contains a shapefile of swath tracklines collected by the U.S. Geological Survey - Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center along the Delmarva Peninsula, MD and VA and the associated metadata.
Use WinZip, 7zip, Peazip or pkUnzip
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https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2015-001-FA/data/bathymetry/tracklines/2015-001-FA_bathytracks.zip
https://doi.org/10.5066/F7P55KK3
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2015-001-FA/
Data can be downloaded via the Internet
none
This zip file contains data available shapefile format. The user must have software capable of reading shapefile format to use these data.
20170419
Edward M. Sweeney
U.S. Geological Survey
Physical Scientist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
Massachusetts
02543
USA
508-548-8700 x2256
508-457-2310
emsweeney@usgs.gov
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
local time