2003 Reson 8101ER Multibeam Sonar Data from Cruise OES-03-07/AHI-03-07, Data Set Name Saipan.

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Reson 8101ER multibeam Data were collected between 21 August and 13 September 2003 (JD 233-256) aboard NOAA Survey Launch Acoustic Habitat Investigator (AHI) at Saipan and Tinian Islands and Tatsumi and Marpi Banks in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific during cruise OES-03-07/AHI-03-07. The AHI was deployed independently from the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette (OEs). The multibeam data were logged into data set Saipan and collected using SAIC ISS-2000 software in the Generic Sensor Format and processed using SABER editing software. Sound velocity corrections from a Seabird SBE19 CTD sensor and motion corrections from a POS-MV vertical reference were applied to the data in real time. Predicted tides were applied to the data in real time and observed tides from Guam tide gauge 1630000 with a time corrector of 18 minutes and a tide height multiplier of 0.94 were applied using SABER postprocessing software. Horizontal accuracy is 20m (no differential GPS correctors applied), vertical accuracy is depth dependent (~1% of water depth), WGS84 datum. These data are not to be used for navigation. Depths mapped range from 10 - 300 m.

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  • western pacific ocean
  • northern mariana islands
  • bathymetry
  • oceans
  • cnmi
  • tinian island
  • benthic habitat mapping and characterization - cnmi and guam
  • marpi point (15n145e0015)
  • 1398
  • tinian island reefs
  • garapan anchorage
  • earth science
  • bathymetry/seafloor topography
  • multibeam sonar
  • saipan island
  • saipan
  • commonwealth of the northern mariana islands
  • tatsumi reef (14n145e0011)
  • islands
  • ocean basin
  • marpi bank
  • saipan island (15n145e0002)
  • coris_metadata
  • pacific ocean
  • geographic information
  • country/territory
  • tinian
  • tinian island (14n145e0005)

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