Areas of high acoustic backscatter on the SIS-1000 1999 USGS sidescan sonar image of the Upper Continental Slope study area offshore of Louisiana (HIGHBACKSCATTER.SHP)
Description
This GIS is a component of the U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Science Center's Gulf of Mexico GIS database for gas hydrates. This database is intended to organize and display sidescan sonar, seismic-reflection, and sediment sample information collected by the USGS as well as derivative interpretations that are relevant to ongoing hydrate studies in the Gulf of Mexico.
Resources
| Name |
Format |
Description |
Link |
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55 |
Landing page for access to the data |
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1071/data/sidescan/interpretation/sis1000/highbackscatter.zip |
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55 |
The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.db78df56-02bc-4744-83b3-5c3faa216c8a.xml |
Tags
- louisiana-continental-slope
- gulf-of-mexico
- sis-1000-sidescan-sonar
- oceans
- polygon
- whsc
- sidescan-sonar
- cmgp
- u-s-geological-survey
- geology
- united-states
- geospatial-datasets
- shapefile
- eez
- gulf-of-mexico-gis-database
- geoscientificinformation
- sidescan-sonar-mosaic
- coastal-and-marine-geology-program
- arcview
- usgs-db78df56-02bc-4744-83b3-5c3faa216c8a
- usgs
- u-s-exclusive-economic-zone
- woods-hole-science-center
- information-archives-field-activity-99002
- sea-floor-characteristics
- north-america
- scientific-interpretation
- high-backscatter-interpretation
- interpretation