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)
20070223
CRED 20m Gridded bathymetry and IKONOS estimated depths of Kure Atoll, Hawaii, USA (Arc ASCII format)
digital data
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/cms/data-by-location/northwest-hawaiian-islands/
Gridded bathymetry and IKONOS estimated depths of the shelf and slope
environments of Kure Atoll, Hawaii, USA. Bottom coverage was achieved in
depths between 0 and 2000 meters. The ASCII grid includes multibeam bathymetry
from the Simrad EM300, Simrad EM3002d, and Reson 8101 multibeam sonars collected
as of October 2006 by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Division in depths between 20
and 5000 meters. The ASCII grid also includes estimated depths derived from high
resolution IKONOS satellite imagery by the NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Remote Sensing
Team in shallow water between 0 and 16 meters.
This ASCII was created using data gathered from multibeam soundings and IKONOS
estimated depths 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.
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.
Multibeam data were also collected 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 R/V AHI's survey sensors include a 240 kHz RESON 8101-ER
sonar providing bathymetry and imagery data, a TSS/Applanix POS/MV Model 320 which
measures position, velocity, attitude and heading, and a Seabird SBE 19 CTD used to
measure sound velocity profiles.
IKONOS estimated depths were produced using rule-based, semi-automated image analysis of
high-resolution satellite imagery for nine locations in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
For more information about the estimated depth data see the following online link:
http://mercury.ornl.gov/metadata/nbii/html/nos/est%5Fdepth%5Fnwhi.html
Specific equipment configurations are documented in metadata from IKONOS Estimated
Depths and cruises HI0503, HI0507, HI0609. These metadata can be accessed at:
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/cms/cruise-catalog/
2000
20060720
ground condition
As needed
-178.457950
-178.167572
28.584921
28.244471
NCEI Geoportal FilterCoRIS_Metadata
CRCP PRoject
Benthic Habitat Mapping and Characterization - Northwestern and Main Hawaiian Islands
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CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus
Geographic Information > Bathymetry
ISO 19115 Topic Category
elevation
006
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Bathymetry
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Bathymetry
Multibeam sonar
satellite imagery
estimated depth
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Kure Atoll
Hawaii
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
United States of America
CoRIS Place Thesaurus
OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Kure Atoll (28N178W0001)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Kure Atoll (28N178W0001)
CoRIS Region
NWHI
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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.
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)
mailing and physical address
NOAA IRC
NMFS/PIFSC/CRED
1845 WASP Blvd., Building 176
Honolulu
HI
96818
808 725-5360
808 725-5429
nmfs.pic.credinfo@noaa.gov
e-mail preferred
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/NWHI_images/Kure_20m_500.jpg
Multibeam Bathymetry and IKONOS Estimated Depths
JPEG
PIBHMC, CRED, PIFSC, NOAA and JIMAR
Not applicable
Unclassified
Not applicable
ArcGIS ASCII file created in a LINUX environment
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.
These data are believed to be logically consistent
though no tests were performed
Complete
Horizontal positioning system: GPS (SPS)
Horizontal position accuracy: 25 m
1 m
Raw sounding resolution: Variable
Multibeam swath files are acquired in the Generic Sensor Format (GSF) and
are edited on a swath by swath basis using SAIC's SABER editing software.
The edited swath files are then combined into a Pure File Magic (PFM) format
in SABER and area based editing is performed. The edited PFM is then exported
as X,Y,Z points with a defined grid cell size and the points are combined
with X,Y,Z IKONOS estimated depth points. The resulting X,Y,Z data are then
gridded using xyz2grd, a Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) algorithm that converts
an ASCII or binary table to a netCDF grid file format. GMT is an open source
collection of tools for manipulating geographic data sets. Grid nodes with more
than one value are set to the average value and unconstrained nodes are set to
NaN. Finally, the netCDF grid is clipped at a depth that minimizes data gaps
for the specified grid cell size and then converted to an ArcGIS ASCII file
format using LINUX/UNIX commands in combination with GMT. Additional information
about GMT can be found at: www.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt and additional information
about the multibeam data processing is recorded in the cruise metadata.
20061117
Raster
Grid Cell
1871
1402
1
Universal Transverse Mercator
1
0.9996
-177
0
500000
0
Row and Column
20
20
meters
D_WGS_1984
WGS_1984
6378137.000000
298.257224
mean lower low water
0.01
meters
Attribute Values
Depth values are real values based on the average of the
soundings that fell within the extracted grid cells. The number of
soundings per grid cell range from >1000 soundings in shallow depths
to as few as 20 soundings in deeper areas. A total error budget for
this survey has not been developed. Therefore, the accuracy of depth
measurements should be considered to be within 1 meter.
none
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)
mailing and physical address
NOAA IRC
NMFS/PIFSC/CRED
1845 WASP Blvd., Building 176
Honolulu
HI
96818
808 725-5360
808 725-5429
nmfs.pic.credinfo@noaa.gov
e-mail preferred
Downloadable Data
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.
Arc ASCII
Arc ASCII can be converted to Arc Raster using ArcToolbox Conversion Tools.
ftp://ftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/website/data/nwhi/bathymetry/Kure_20m.asc.zip
None
20190605
20110325
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)
mailing and physical address
NOAA IRC
NMFS/PIFSC/CRED
1845 WASP Blvd., Building 176
Honolulu
HI
96818
808 725-5360
808 725-5429
nmfs.pic.credinfo@noaa.gov
e-mail preferred
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
Local Time
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20090219034046
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20000101
20060720
https://www.coris.noaa.gov/metadata/records/html/cred_gridded_bathy_kure_nwhi_20m_asc.html
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