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 0 and -300 meters. The backscatter dataset includes data collected using the Reson 8101 multibeam sonar. The sonars frequency is 240 kHz. These metadata are for the 1 m grid cell size Reson 8101 multibeam backscatter data only.
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.
Multibeam data were 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, Hawaii. The R/V AHI's survey sensors include a 240 kHz Reson 8101-ER sonar providing multibeam bathymetry and backscatter 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. Specific equipment configurations are documented in metadata from cruises: AHI0702. These metadata can be accessed at - http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/cms/cruise-catalog/. 7668 rows, 6520 columns for portrait charts. 6520 rows, 7668 columns for landscape charts.
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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.
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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.
These data are believed to be logically consistent though no tests were performed.
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Horizontal positioning system: GPS (SPS) Horizontal position accuracy: 25 meters
1 m Range resolution of sonar ~1.25 cm Raw sounding resolution: Variable Vertical accuracy of gridded product: 1% of water depth
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 AHI0702 and AHI0703. 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 4.4.16, Hawaii Mapping Research Group (HMRG) Processing Software, Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), v 4.2, MB System, v 5.1
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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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.
TIFF is a format for storage, transfer, display, and printing of raster images. The TIFF file structure allows both the tag and the image data to be encoded into the same file. GeoTIFF refers to a TIFF file that has geographic data embedded as tags within the TIFF file. 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.
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 Reson 8101 backscatter files and bounding coordinates: MARAMP-8101-8-1.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 144.679/144.751/13.220/13.280 MARAMP-8101-8-2.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 144.620/144.691/13.220/13.280 MARAMP-8101-8-3.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 144.619/144.691/13.270/13.331 MARAMP-8101-8-4.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 144.620/144.691/13.320/13.380 MARAMP-8101-8-5.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 144.611/144.683/13.370/13.429 MARAMP-8101-8-6.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 144.611/144.683/13.420/13.480 MARAMP-8101-8-7.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 144.650/144.721/13.450/13.510 MARAMP-8101-8-8.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 144.710/144.781/13.448/13.508 MARAMP-8101-8-9.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 144.759/144.831/13.480/13.539 MARAMP-8101-8-10.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 144.776/144.848/13.520/13.580 MARAMP-8101-8-11.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 144.786/144.858/13.565/13.625 MARAMP-8101-8-12.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 144.816/144.888/13.614/13.674 MARAMP-8101-8-16.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 144.771/144.832/13.365/13.435 MARAMP-8101-8-16.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 145.620/145.680/15.049/15.119 MARAMP-8101-8-17.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 145.633/145.694/14.990/15.060 MARAMP-8101-8-18.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 145.633/145.694/14.933/15.003 MARAMP-8101-8-19.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 145.643/145.715/14.877/14.936 MARAMP-8101-8-20.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 145.585/145.646/14.909/14.979 MARAMP-8101-8-21.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 145.563/145.624/14.975/15.045 MARAMP-8101-8-22.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 145.565/145.626/15.040/15.110 MARAMP-8101-8-100.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 145.689/145.762/18.019/18.079 MARAMP-8101-8-101.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 145.699/145.772/18.069/18.129 MARAMP-8101-8-102.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 145.729/145.791/18.119/18.189 MARAMP-8101-8-103.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 145.769/145.831/18.109/18.179 MARAMP-8101-8-104.01.00m.ss W/E/S/N 145.796/145.831/18.0690/18.139
