CRED Simrad em300 multibeam backscatter data from the islands and banks in the Mariana archipelago, 2007.
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- Citation:
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- Originator:
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Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Publication_Date: 20080730
- Title:
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CRED Simrad em300 multibeam backscatter data from the islands and banks in the Mariana archipelago, 2007.
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: digital data
- Online_Linkage: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/
- Description:
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- Abstract:
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Multibeam backscatter imagery extracted from gridded
bathymetry of the Mariana archipelago between the U.S. Territory
of Guam and Uracas Island in the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands. These data provide coverage between -100 and -3600
meters. The backscatter dataset includes data collected using
the Simrad em300multibeam sonar. The sonars frequency is 30 kHz.
These metadata are for the 5 m grid cell size Simrad em300
multibeam backscatter data only.
- Purpose:
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The GeoTIFFs and netCDF grids of backscatter imagery were
created using data gathered from multibeam soundings for use as
a planning and reference document. The data are also being used
for benthic habitat mapping, for locating Essential Fish
Habitat, and for studying geologic features of the area. Refer
to supplemental information for description of instrument and
survey.
- Supplemental_Information:
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Multibeam data were collected aboard the NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai, a 218' United
States National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration research ship. The
NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai's survey sensors include a 30 kHz Simrad EM300 sonar and a
300 kHz Simrad EM3002d sonar, which provide bathymetry and imagery data, a
TSS/Applanix POS/MV Model 320, which measures position, velocity, attitude and
heading, and a Seabird SBE 9/11 plus CTD used to measure sound velocity profiles.
Specific equipment configurations are documented in metadata from cruises: HI0702, HI0703.
These metadata can be accessed at: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/cms/cruise-catalog/.
4792 rows, 4076 columns for portrait charts. 4076 rows, 4792 columns for landscape charts.
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- Beginning_Date: 20070509
- Ending_Date: 20070609
- Currentness_Reference: ground condition
- Status:
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- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
- Spatial_Domain:
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- Bounding_Coordinates:
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: 144.50
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: 146.25
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 20.70
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 13.10
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- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CRCP Project
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Benthic Habitat Mapping and Characterization - Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam
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EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Backscatter
- Theme_Keyword: Acoustic Imagery
- Theme_Keyword: Multibeam Backscatter
- Theme_Keyword: Backscatter
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
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EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Backscatter
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
- Theme_Keyword: oceans
- Theme_Keyword: 014
- Theme_Keyword: elevation
- Theme_Keyword: 006
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus
- Theme_Keyword: Geographic Information > Backscatter
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Place_Keyword: UTM Zone 55
- Place_Keyword: U.S. Territory of Guam
- Place_Keyword: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
- Place_Keyword: United States of America
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OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Western Pacific Ocean > Mariana Archipelago > Northern Mariana Islands ( CNMI ) (18N146E0000)
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COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Northern Mariana Islands > Northern Mariana Islands > Northern Mariana Islands ( CNMI ) (18N146E0000)
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OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific
Ocean > Mariana Islands
- Place_Keyword: Hawaii > Honolulu
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Region
- Place_Keyword: CNMI
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These data are not to be used for navigation purposes.
Please acknowledge NOAA and the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR)
University of Hawaii as the sources of this information.
sources of this information.
- Point_of_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization:
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Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Contact_Person: Frances Lichowski
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: NOAA IRC
- Address: NMFS/PIFSC/CRED
- Address: 1845 WASP Blvd., Building 176
- City: Honolulu
- State_or_Province: HI
- Postal_Code: 96818
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 808 725-5360
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 808 725-5429
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: nmfs.pic.credinfo@noaa.gov
- Contact_Instructions: e-mail preferred
- Browse_Graphic:
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- Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
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http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/CNMI_images/guam_em300_boxes_440.jpg
- Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Multibeam Backscatter, Acoustic Imagery
- Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG
- Browse_Graphic:
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- Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
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http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/CNMI_images/saipan-tinian_em300_boxes_440.jpg
- Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Multibeam Backscatter, Acoustic Imagery
- Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG
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- Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
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http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/CNMI_images/NMARC_bs_colors_575.jpg
- Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Multibeam Backscatter, Acoustic Imagery
- Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG
- Data_Set_Credit: PIBHMC, CRED, PIFSC, NOAA and JIMAR
- Security_Information:
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- Security_Classification_System: Not applicable
- Security_Classification: Unclassified
- Security_Handling_Description: Not applicable
- Native_Data_Set_Environment:
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GeoTIFF and netCDF grid file created
using HMRG software in a LINUX environment
- Data_Quality_Information:
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- Attribute_Accuracy:
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- Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
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Data are collected for resource management
and research purposes and are tested for internal consistency; however,
no effort is made to compare these data to external references or to
other published data.
- Logical_Consistency_Report:
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These data are believed to be logically consistent
though no tests were performed
- Completeness_Report: Complete
- Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
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Horizontal positioning system: GPS (SPS)
Horizontal position accuracy: 25 meters
- Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:
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- Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
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1 m
Range resolution of sonar ~1.25 cm
Raw sounding resolution: Variable
Vertical accuracy of gridded product: 1% of water depth
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- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) ISS-2000 acquires,
processes and records data, provides survey control and underway quality
control displays. SAIC's SABER processing software is used to process the
raw soundings, analyze the results, manually edit the sounding data to remove
outliers and derive average gridded data values. Additional data acquisition
and processing information can be found in the metadata for cruises HI0702 and
HI0703. Hawaii Mapping Research Group (HMRG) processing software was then used to
extract values of acoustic intensity from the soundings. HMRG is an organization
of scientists, engineers and technicians whose mission is to design, build,
and operate tools for mapping the seafloor. HMRG is a group within the School
of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
The gsf2bs program (July, 2005) converts the swath bathymetry ping records contained
within a GSF (Generic Sensor Format) version 2.02 dataset into bs file format. This
is done as follows: (i) position each beam's bottom detect intensity sample at the
across-track location of that beam's bathymetry value; (ii) assuming a flat bottom
in the near neighborhood of the beam, compute across-track distances for all of the
beam's remaining intensity samples based on their temporal relation to the bottom
detect sample and the computed average sound velocity for that beam as derived from
its range and travel time; (iii) after all of the intensity samples from all beams
of a ping have been located in across-track distance, fill the gaps between them as
necessary by comparing travel times of beams adjacent to the gap, assigning the position
using the adjacent sample closest to nadir, and averaging the interpolated values that
fall within a cell. The conversion described above is necessary in order to run HMRG
backscatter processing operations on the data, such as filtering to remove noise, and to
create netCDF grids, raster images and GeoTIFF's. For more information on the backscatter
processing technique see <http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/pibhmc_documentation.htm>.
Software_Used:
SAIC ISS-2000 Acquisition Software, v 3.4
SAIC SABER Processing Software, v 4.1.16
Hawaii Mapping Research Group (HMRG) Processing Software
GMT Generic Mapping Tools, v 4.2
MB System, v 5.1
- Process_Date: 20080515
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- Vertical_Count: 1
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- UTM_Zone_Number: 55
- Transverse_Mercator:
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- Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.9996
- Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: 147
- Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0
- False_Easting: 500000
- False_Northing: 0
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- Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: Row and Column
- Coordinate_Representation:
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- Abscissa_Resolution: 5
- Ordinate_Resolution: 5
- Planar_Distance_Units: meters
- Geodetic_Model:
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- Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_WGS_1984
- Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984
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- Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257224
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- Depth_System_Definition:
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- Depth_Datum_Name: mean lower low water
- Depth_Resolution: 0.01
- Depth_Distance_Units: meters
- Depth_Encoding_Method: Attribute Values
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- Overview_Description:
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- Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
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Sidescan data within a GSF file are arranged as small sequences of intensity
values, one sequence per beam per ping. The intensity values represent the
amplitude of echo returns to the sensor and can be related to seabed
roughness.
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- Distribution_Information:
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- Distributor:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization:
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Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Contact_Person: Frances Lichowski
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: NOAA IRC
- Address: NMFS/PIFSC/CRED
- Address: 1845 WASP Blvd., Building 176
- City: Honolulu
- State_or_Province: HI
- Postal_Code: 96818
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 808 725-5360
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 808 725-5429
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: nmfs.pic.credinfo@noaa.gov
- Contact_Instructions: e-mail preferred
- Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
- Distribution_Liability:
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These data are not to be used for navigational purposes.
NOAA makes no warranty regarding these data, expressed or implied, nor
does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA cannot
assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in
these data, nor as a result of the failure of these data to function
on a particular system.
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The geographic data can be used to position the image in the correct location and geometry
on the screen of a geographic information display. Any GIS, CAD, Image Processing,
Desktop Mapping and other types of systems using geographic images can read any GeoTiff file.
More specifically, files of this type can be added to ArcInfo and ArcView 8.x or higher and may
be viewed in the Table of Contents as a new raster layer. Image visualization software that does
not use geography as a basis for image placement can view a GeoTIFF image as if there were no
geographic information in the TIFF file. For example, GeoTIFF files can be viewed using Windows
Picture and Fax viewer.The GeoTIFF format is public domain, non-proprietary.
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This file is formatted as a 2-D binary netCDF grid file.
This is the default grid file format used by GMT (Generic
Mapping Tools). The file was created by the HMRG sofware
program bsovl. More information about netCDF files can be
found at at http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/ and
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/.
List of Simrad EM300 backscatter files and bounding coordinates:
MARAMP-em300-25.4.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 144.46/144.68/13.11/13.29
MARAMP-em300-25.5.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 144.46/144.68/13.28/13.47
MARAMP-em300-25.6.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 144.55/144.77/13.45/13.64
MARAMP-em300-25.7.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 144.75/144.94/13.51/13.73
MARAMP-em300-25.8.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 144.92/145.11/13.54/13.76
MARAMP-em300-25.9.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 144.87/145.06/13.38/13.60
MARAMP-em300-25.10.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 144.75/144.94/13.25/13.47
MARAMP-em300-25.11.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 144.67/144.90/13.10/13.29
MARAMP-em300-25.43.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.77/145.69/17.85/18.07
MARAMP-em300-25.44.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.58/145.80/17.88/18.06
MARAMP-em300-25.45.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.58/145.80/18.06/18.24
MARAMP-em300-25.46.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.77/145.96/18.06/18.27
MARAMP-em300-25.47.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.56/145.77/18.21/18.43
MARAMP-em300-25.48.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.77/145.96/18.23/18.47
MARAMP-em300-25.18.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.45/145.64/14.76/14.98
MARAMP-em300-25.19.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.45/145.64/14.93/15.15
MARAMP-em300-25.20.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.60/145.79/14.80/15.02
MARAMP-em300-25.21.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.55/145.74/14.95/15.17
MARAMP-em300-25.22.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.53/145.72/15.12/15.34
MARAMP-em300-25.23.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.709/145.90/14.95/15.17
MARAMP-em300-25.24.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.70/145.89/15.15/15.37
MARAMP-em300-25.25.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.85/146.04/15.10/15.32
MARAMP-em300-25.26.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.73/145.95/15.31/15.49
MARAMP-em300-25.27.00m.ss
W/E/S/N 145.53/145.73/15.32/15.54
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Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Contact_Person: Frances Lichowski
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: NOAA IRC
- Address: NMFS/PIFSC/CRED
- Address: 1845 WASP Blvd., Building 176
- City: Honolulu
- State_or_Province: HI
- Postal_Code: 96818
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 808 725-5360
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 808 725-5429
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: nmfs.pic.credinfo@noaa.gov
- Contact_Instructions: e-mail preferred
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