1999 RoxAnn Data Points from Apalachicola Bay, Florida

Description

The Apalachicola Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and the NOAA Office for Coastal Management worked together to map benthic habitats within Apalachicola Bay, Florida. The bay and the lower portions of four distributaries were surveyed on 11-22 October 1999 using three benthic sampling techniques. This data set represents the information gathered from a RoxAnn acoustic sensor. The instrument was used to characterize bottom type by extracting data on bottom roughness and bottom hardness from the primary and secondary sounder echoes. The data is classified on-the-fly, using the Sediment Profile Images and grab samples collected for field validation, and subject to a post-processing classification. The RoxAnn data points were exported into a geographic information system (GIS) and post-processed to remove unreliable data points and re-classified. This data set is comprised of the cleaned, attributed point data. The attributes include location, date, time, depth, field derived classification, and the classification derived from post-processing the data. Original contact information: Contact Org: NOAA Office for Coastal Management Phone: 843-740-1202 Email: coastal.info@noaa.gov

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
57 FTP download of data files. ftp://ftp.coast.noaa.gov/pub/benthic/Single_Beam_Acoustic_Data/FL_ApalachicolaBay_rox.zip
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/47882
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
0 Information on the NOAA Office for Coastal Management (OCM) https://coast.noaa.gov/
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/47882.pdf

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  • gulf coast florida
  • united states of america
  • office of coastal management
  • oysters
  • benthic
  • national ocean service
  • ecosystems
  • biosphere
  • apalachicola bay
  • environmental monitoring
  • continent
  • noaa
  • marine ecosystems
  • north america
  • doc/noaa/nos/ocm
  • coastal
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • estuary
  • benthic mapping
  • acoustic
  • sav
  • national estuarine research reserve
  • florida
  • roxann
  • ocm benthic habitat mapping

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