Backscatter intensity and sun-illuminated topographic imagery of the seafloor in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region (bcksctter.tif)

Description

This data set contains the sun-illuminated topographic imagery and backscatter intensity generated from a multibeam sonar survey of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts, an area of approximately 1100 square nautical miles. The Stellwagen Bank NMS Mapping Project is designed to provide detailed maps of the Stellwagen Bank region's environments and habitats and the first complete multibeam topographic and sea floor characterization maps of a significant region of the shallow EEZ. Data were collected on four cruises over a two year period from the fall of 1994 to the fall of 1996. The surveys were conducted aboard the Canadian Hydrographic Service vessel Frederick G. Creed, a SWATH (Small Waterplane Twin Hull) ship that surveys at speeds of up to 16 knots. The multibeam data were collected utilizing a Simrad Subsea EM 1000 Multibeam Echo Sounder (95 kHz) that is permanently installed in the hull of the Creed.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2005/2840/DATA/backscatter/bcksctter.zip
55 Landing page for access to the data http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2005/2840/DATA/backscatter/bcksctter.zip
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.de6a9ef2-0f4d-4586-aca5-12c55027d0ee.xml

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  • simrad-subsea-em-1000
  • multibeam-sonar
  • backscatter-intensity
  • frederick-g-creed
  • multibeam-echo-sounder
  • usgs-de6a9ef2-0f4d-4586-aca5-12c55027d0ee
  • image-mosaics
  • bathymetry
  • oceans
  • atlantic-ocean
  • ma
  • psuedo-color-encoded
  • whsc
  • elevation
  • cmgp
  • u-s-geological-survey
  • shallow-eez
  • sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity
  • geospatial-datasets
  • eez
  • geoscientificinformation
  • stellwagen-bank-national-marine-sanctuary
  • geographic-information-systems
  • geotiff-image
  • coastal-and-marine-geology-program
  • north-atlantic
  • sea-floor-topography
  • usgs
  • shaded-relief-imagery
  • sbnms
  • woods-hole-science-center
  • sea-floor-characteristics
  • marine-geophysics
  • marine-geology
  • boston
  • massachusetts
  • gulf-of-maine
  • imagerybasemapsearthcover

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