Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean
Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Program
200603
Bathymetry 2M Grid, US Virgin Islands, 2005, UTM 20 NAD83
1st
raster digital data
Silver Spring, MD
NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS), National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)
https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/projects/detail?key=263
This dataset contains a unified ESRI Grid with 2 meter cell size representing the bathymetry of selected portions
of seafloor around St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John in the US Virgin Islands, derived from data collected in 2005.
NOAA's NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Team, in collaboration with NOAA vessel Nancy Foster and territory, federal, and
private sector partners, acquired multibeam bathymetry data in the US Virgin Islands from 2/1/05 to 2/12/05. Data
was acquired with a pole-mounted Reson 8101 ER multibeam echosounder (240 kHz) and processed by a NOAA contractor
using CARIS HIPS v5.4 software. Data has all correctors applied (attitude, sound velocity) and has been reduced to
mean lower low water (MLLW) using final approved tides and zoning from NOAA COOPS. Data is in UTM zone 20 north,
datum NAD83. The processed CARIS data was used to generate a CARIS BASE surface based on swath angle. An ASCII XYZ
file was exported from the BASE surface and opened in ESRI ArcMap 9 as an XY event. Then the ArcToolbox conversion
tool 'Feature to Raster' was used to generate the final ESRI Grid.
The project was conducted to meet IHO Order 1 and 2 accuracy standards, dependant on the project area and depth.
All users should individually evaluate the suitability of this data according to their own needs and standards.
This multibeam data was collected as IOCM (Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping) project NF-05-05 during the
second year of an ongoing NOAA scientific research mission in the US Caribbean to characterize nearshore coral reef
habitats at depths down to 300 meters. The mission purpose is to better understand the resources within the surveyed
reef habitats, and ultimately develop species utilization models linking physical habitats with biological information.
The multibeam backscatter, multibeam bathymetry, and ground truth video footage collected during the 2005 mission
will be used internally to characterize sea floor topography and to create benthic habitat maps, helping NOAA meet
its mapping commitment to the US Coral Reef Task Force. The resulting publicly-distributed data is also a contribution
to the greater scientific community interested in the USVI seafloor.
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As needed
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NCEI Geoportal FilterCoRIS_MetadataCRCP ProjectSeafloor Characterization of the Buck Island Reef and the US Virgin Islands National Coral Reef Monuments
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CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Bathymetry
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > GIS
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs > Coral Reef Ecology > Habitats
EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Benthic Habitat
None
Grid
Multibeam
SWMB
Raster
Biogeography
Nancy Foster
Reson 8101
Seafloor
MBES
NF0505
Sonar
NPS
IOCM
Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping
ISO 19115 Topic Category
elevation
006
CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus
Geographic Information > Bathymetry
CoRIS Place Thesaurus
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Virgin Islands > St. John (18N064W0011)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > St. John > St. John (18N064W0011)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Leeward Islands > St. Thomas (18N064W0033)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > St. Thomas > St. Thomas (18N064W0033)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Virgin Islands > St. Croix (17N064W0003)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > St. Croix > St. Croix (17N064W0003)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Buck Island > Buck Island (17N064W0006)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > St. Croix > Buck Island (17N064W0006)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > St. Croix > Buck Island Reef (17N064W0001)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > St. Croix > Buck Island Reef (17N064W0001)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > St. Croix > Salt River Bay (17N064W0022)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > St. Croix > Salt River Bay (17N064W0022)
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Lesser Antilles > U. S. Virgin Islands (17N064W0000)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > U. S. Virgin Islands > U. S. Virgin Islands (17N064W0000)
None
Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument
VICRNM
Grammanik
Grammanik Bank
Mid Shelf Reef
MSR
Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Reserve
BUIS
VIIS
VICR
CoRIS Region
USVI
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 Program
Project Manager - US Virgin Islands
mailing and physical address
1305 East West Highway, SSMC4
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028
(301) 713-4388
Contact info is for CCMA general reception. Please ask for current Biogeography project manager
for USVI.
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS),
Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Program
NOAA - NMAO personnel and R/V NANCY FOSTER
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535
While the project was conducted to meet IHO Order 1 and 2 accuracy standards, dependant on
project area and depth, all users should independently analyze the dataset according to their own needs and standards
to determine data usability.
This ESRI Grid is sourced from a gridded dataset. The original full-resolution multibeam 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.
See Data Acquisition and Processing Report (DAPR) for NF-05-05.
See Data Acquisition and Processing Report (DAPR) for NF-05-05.
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean
Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Program
Unpublished Material
NF-05-05 GSF Raw Multibeam Data
vector digital data
external hard drive
200502
200502
ground condition
NF-05-05 GSF Raw Multibeam 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 Program
Unpublished Material
NF-05-05 HDCS Processed Multibeam Data
vector digital data
external hard drive
200502
200502
ground condition
NF-05-05 HDCS Processed Multibeam Data
Processed, cleaned, and corrected full resolution dataset. Sourced from raw GSF data.
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean
Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Program
Unpublished Material
NF-05-05 CARIS BASE Surface
raster digital data
external hard drive
200502
200502
ground condition
NF-05-05 BASE Surface
Downsampled CARIS BASE (Bathymetry Associated with Statistical Error) grid with best depth
layer. Sourced from processed HDCS data.
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean
Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Program
200603
NOAA XYZ Text File of 2m Multibeam Bathymetry of the US Virgin Islands, Project NF-05-05, 2005, UTM 20N NAD83
tabular digital data
https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/projects/detail?key=263
external hard drive
200502
200502
ground condition
NF-05-05 ASCII XYZ Multibeam Data
Downsampled ASCII text file containing XYZ values. XYZ = northing, easting, and depth in meters.
Sourced from CARIS BASE surface.
For this project, the Chief Scientist was NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CCMA's Tim Battista and the Lead
Hydrographer was independent contractor Jay Lazar. Data was collected aboard the NOAA ship Nancy Foster from
2/1/05 to 2/12/05, as project number NF-05-05-VI. Multibeam data was acquired in GSF format with a pole-mounted
Reson 8101 ER multibeam echosounder (240 kHz), with options 033, 037, and 040. Reson backscatter snippet collection
was enabled. SAIC ISS 2000 software was used to interface with the Reson system. Line spacing for acquisition was
three times the water depth, and data was retained out to 60 or 70 degrees from nadir, depending on project area.
Heave, roll, pitch and heading correctors were collected using an Applanix POS/MV Model 320 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 Seabird Seaterm software, then applied directly to the raw GSF data.
Positioning was obtained using Northstar 941X GPS receivers with differential correctors from U.S. Coast Guard
CORS beacon Isabel, Puerto Rico. Data was reduced to Mean Lower-Low Water (MLLW) using final approved tides from
NOAA COOPS, based on National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON) primary tide stations at Charlotte Amalie,
VI (9751639) and Lime Tree Bay, VI (9751401).
NF-05-05 GSF Multibeam Data
200502
Raw SWMB data in GSF (generic sensor format) format were converted and processed using CARIS
HIPS v5.4 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.
Process Date Range: 200502 - 200511
NF-05-05 HDCS Multibeam Data
200511
After being submitted to CCMA by the contractor, CARIS HIPS v5.4 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 comma delimited ASCII XYZ file, with Easting, Northing, and
Depth values, using ground position units (NAD83 UTM zone 20N).
NF-05-05 BASE Surface
200512
The ASCII XYZ file was opened in ArcMap 9 and the 'Display XY Data' option was used to add the
XY data as an event with spatial reference NAD83 UTM zone 20N. Finally, the ArcToolbox 9 conversion tool "Feature
to Raster" was then used to convert the XY event into an ESRI Grid, based on the depth field Z. These steps were
accomplished using an inhouse Arc script which combined these functions and allowed bulk processing.
NF-05-05 ASCII XYZ Multibeam Data
200512
Metadata imported.
D:\Metadata\2005 Templates\2005_MB_Grid_MetadataTemplate.xml
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Raster
Grid Cell
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20642
1
Universal Transverse Mercator
20
0.999600
-63.000000
0.000000
500000.000000
0.000000
Row and Column
2.000000
2.000000
meters
North American Datum of 1983
Geodetic Reference System 80
6378137.000000
298.257222
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
National Ocean Service (NOS), Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA), Biogeography Program
Project Manager - US Virgin Islands
mailing and physical address
1305 East West Highway, SSMC4
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028
(301) 713-4388
Contact info is for CCMA general reception. Please ask for current Biogeography project
manager for USVI.
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.
ESRI Grid
https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/projects/detail?key=263
None
20200329
NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography
Project Manager
mailing and physical address
1305 East West Highway, SSMC4
Silver Spring
MD
20910
USA
(301) 713-3028
FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
20070425065100
None
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20050212
https://www.coris.noaa.gov/metadata/records/html/nccos_bathymetry_2m_grid_usvi_2005.html
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