4 meter composite sidescan sonar mosaic of the New York Bight Apex (APEX_OF.TIF)
Description
In 1995, the USGS, in cooperation with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, began a program designed to generate reconnaissance maps of the sea floor offshore of the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, one of the most populated coastal regions within the United States. The goal of this mapping program is to provide a regional synthesis of the sea-floor environment, including a description of sedimentary environments, sediment texture, sea-floor morphology, geologic history, and the geometry and structure of the Quaternary strata. This mapping effort differs from previous studies of these area by obtaining digital, sidescan-sonar images that cover 100 percent of the sea floor. The sidescan-sonar data were digitally mosaicked to provide a base suitable for use in the geographic information system (GIS) of the New York Bight region.
Resources
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.e39b0576-ae59-4dd6-9d5f-476fbba58318.xml |
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Landing page for access to the data |
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/of02-152/ |
Tags
- new-york
- sonar
- geophysics
- us-northeast
- inner-continental-shelf
- new-york-bight
- us-east-coast
- image-mosaics
- new-jersey
- oceans
- atlantic-ocean
- whsc
- sidescan-sonar
- cmgp
- u-s-geological-survey
- sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity
- united-states
- southern-long-island
- geospatial-datasets
- usgs-e39b0576-ae59-4dd6-9d5f-476fbba58318
- new-york-bight-apex
- geoscientificinformation
- sidescan-sonar-mosaic
- coastal-and-marine-geology-program
- usgs
- woods-hole-science-center
- grey-scale-image
- marine-geophysics
- north-america
- backscatter
- imagerybasemapsearthcover