Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Center for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch
2012
NOAA TIFF Image - 50m Rugosity, Charleston Bump - Deep Coral Priority Areas - Little Hales - (2003), UTM 17N NAD83
1st
raster digital data
Silver Spring, MD
NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS), National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)
https://products.coastalscience.noaa.gov/collections/benthic/e49s_atlantic/default.aspx
This dataset contains a unified GeoTiff with 30x30 meter cell size representing the bathymetry of the Charleston Bump off of the South Atlantic Bight, derived from data collected in 2003 by the NOAA Ship Little Hales. NOAA's NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Branch, in collaboration with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, as well as the NOAA Ship Little Hales , and private sector partners, acquired multibeam bathymetry data off the Charleston Bump from 06/24/2003 to 06/30/2003. Data was acquired with a hull-mounted Kongsberg Simrad Single Beam Echosounder. It was processed by interpolating a bathymetrical surface from feature class points using the spatial analyst natural neighbor tool with 9 neighbor cell radius. The raster surface was exported as a 30m GeoTiff. Rugosity was derived from this surface using NOAA's Benthic Terrain Modeler extension.
This multibeam data was processed as part of a mulitagency cooperative deep-sea coral assessment. The multibeam component of the cruise was intended to both provide fine scale acoustic imagery of known deep coral sites, as well as serve as a nautical survey for charting purposes. The rugosity component will be used to characterize the seafloor topography to identify and predict deep water coral habitats.
20030624
20030630
ground condition
None Planned
-79.029172
-78.707401
31.50588
31.25385
NCEI Geoportal FilterCoRIS_Metadata
NOS Data Explorer Topic Category
Bathymetry/Topography
CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus
Geographic Information > Habitats
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Rugosity
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Reef Habitat > Description
None
Coral
Seafloor
Reef
SoNAR
Benthic
SBES
Habitat
GIS
Simrad
NOAA Ship Little Hales
Biogeography
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
Ocean Explorer
NOAA
Raster
Singlebeam
Grid
Bathymetry
Rugosity
South Atlantic Bight
Charleston Bump
South Carolina
ISO 19115 Topic Category
elevation
006
environment
007
geoscientificInformation
008
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
010
oceans
014
None
South Carolina
Charleston Bump
Continental Shelf
South Atlantic Bight
South Atlantic Ocean
CoRIS Place Thesaurus
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > South Carolina > South Atlantic Bight (32N077W0001)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > North Atlantic Ocean > South Atlantic Bight > South Carolina (32N077W0001)
None
2001
Please cite any use of this data.
Note: NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION. These data were prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, make any warranty, expressed or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed in this report, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference therein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. Any views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof. Although all data have been used by NOAA, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by NOAA as to the accuracy of the data and/or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by NOAA in the use of these data or related materials.
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch
Project Manager - Deep Coral Project
mailing and physical
1305 East West Highway, SSMC4, N/SCI 1
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028
(301) 713-4384
Contact info is for CCMA general reception. Please ask for current Biogeography Branch project manager for the Deep Coral Project.
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Dr. George Sedberry, NMAO and the personnel and R/V Whiting
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 30xx) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 10.x
As the survey was not conducted to meet IHO standards, all users should independently analyze the dataset according to their own needs and standards to determine data usability.
This GeoTiff is sourced from a CARIS gridded dataset. The original full-resolution singlebeam data was used to create a downsampled uniform-resolution CARIS BASE (Bathymetry Associated with Statistical Error) surface grid with a best depth component. The downsampled grid nodes from that depth surface were then exported and used to generate the ESRI Grid. Some positional shifts may have occurred between the original data points and the transformed grid.
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch
Unpublished material
Raw Singlebeam Data
vector digital data
external hard drive
20030624
20030630
ground condition
Raw Singlebeam Data
Original raw full resolution dataset.
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch
Unpublished material
HDCS Processed Singlebeam Data
vector digital data
external hard drive
20030624
20030630
ground condition
HDCS Processed Singlebeam Data
Processed, cleaned, and corrected full resolution dataset. Sourced from raw .all (SIMRAD) data.
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch
Unpublished material
CARIS BASE Surface
raster digital data
external hard drive
20030624
20030630
ground condition
BASE Surface
Downsampled CARIS BASE (Bathymetry Associated with Statistical Error) grid with best depth layer. Sourced from processed HDCS data.
For this project, data was collected aboard the NOAA Ship Little Hales from 06/24/03 to 06/30/03. Singlebeam data were acquired in .all format with a hull-mounted Kongsberg Simrad Singlebeam echosounder (95 kHz). Backscatter snippet collection was enabled. Line spacing for acquisition was three times the water depth, and data was retained out to 60 degrees from nadir. Heave, roll, pitch and heading correctors were collected using an Applanix POS/MV Model 320 V4 inertial measurement unit (IMU) and associated Trimble GPS antennas. Sound velocity profiles were acquired with a Seabird Electronics SeaCat SBE19P CTD profiler and processed using NOAA's Velocwin V8.85 software, then applied directly to the raw data. Positioning was obtained using Trimble Zephyr GPS receivers. Data was reduced to Mean Lower-Low Water (MLLW) using final approved tides from NOAA COOPS, based on National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON).
2012
Raw .all data were converted and processed using CARIS HIPS v6.0 software, resulting in a CARIS HDCS format dataset with all correctors applied. Attitude and SWMB data was cleaned of fliers, and SWMB data was reviewed in subset mode by a NOAA contractor.
Raw Singlebeam Data
2012
After being submitted to CCMA by the contractor, CARIS HIPS v6.0 was used to generate a CARIS BASE surface (similar to a DTM), based on weighted swath angle, from the processed HDCS data. Then CARIS export tool "BASE Surface to ASCII" was used to export a point feature class in NAD83 UTM zone 17N.
HDCS Processed Singlebeam Data
2012
The feature class points were interpolated into a grid using ArcMap 10.0 with the spatial analyst natural neighbor interpolation tool, which generated a 30m DTM raster by weighting averages of 9 cell neighborhoods to create a smooth interpolated surface. The grid was exported as GeoTiff in the UTM North American Datum (1983) Zone 17 N. Rugosity was derived from this surface using NOAA's Benthic Terrain Modeler extension.
BASE Surface
2012
Raster
Grid Cell
2257
1723
1
Universal Transverse Mercator
17
0.999600
-81.000000
0.000000
500000.000000
0.000000
row and column
30.000000
30.000000
meters
North American Datum of 1983
Geodetic Reference System 80
6378137.000000
298.257222
Mean lower low water
0.00001
meters
Explicit depth coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Branch
Project Manager - Deep Coral Project
mailing and physical
1305 East West Highway, SSMC4, N/SCI 1
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028
(301) 713-4384
Contact info is for CCMA general reception. Please ask for current Biogeography Branch project manager for the Deep Coral Project.
Downloadable Data
These data were prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, make any warranty, expressed or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed in this report, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference therein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. Any views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof. Although all data have been used by NOAA, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by NOAA as to the accuracy of the data and/or related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by NOAA in the use of these data or related materials.
TIFF
6.683
https://products.coastalscience.noaa.gov/collections/benthic/e49s_atlantic/default.aspx
None
20230728
20130827
2015
Will Sautter
NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Branch
Acoustic Mapping Specialist
mailing and physical
1305 East West Highway, SSMC4
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028
(301) 713-4384
FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
local time
https://www.coris.noaa.gov/metadata/records/html/littlehales_deepcoral_rugosity_2003.html
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