Gridded multibeam data were collected aboard the Hi'ialakai, a
218' United States National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) research ship, and aboard the R/V AHI
(Acoustic Habitat Investigator), a 25' survey launch owned and
operated by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center in
Honolulu, HI. The metadata for the bathymetry is documented in
the product metadata, uracas_10m.txt.
(http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/pibhmc_cnmi_bathy.htm)
References:
Lundblad et al., 2006, A benthic terrain classification scheme for
American Samoa, Marine Geodesy, 29(2):89 - 111.
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/btm/
The terrestrial elevation data shown in the map for this data set are
a United States Geological Survey Digital Elevation Models.