Bathymetry of Lake Erie and Lake Saint Clair

Description

Bathymetry of Lake Erie and Lake Saint Clair has been compiled as a component of a NOAA project to rescue Great Lakes lake floor geological and geophysical data and make it more accessible. This project is a cooperative effort between investigators at the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center's Marine Geology and Geophysics Division (NGDC/MGG), the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) and the Canadian Hydrographic Service(CHS). Bathymetric sounding data employed in compiling the one-meter bathymetry (National Geophysical Data Center, 1998) were collected over a 100-year period for purposes of navigation safety and nautical charting by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, the NOAA Coast Survey, and the Canadian Hydrographic Service. These bathymetric data, totaling several hundred thousand soundings, are separated four ways in existing archives: by whether they exist in digital form or reside only on paper sheets; and by whether they were collected by the U. S. or Canada. Final assembly of the new bathymetry has resulted from synthesis of bathymetric data from the four sources. Spacing of data control tracklines ranges from 500 to 2500 meters for the open lake and from 125 to 500 meters for nearshore areas. In preparation for bathymetric contouring, digital soundings were converted to metric units and computer plotted in color according to depth range. Contours in metric units were generated directly on overlays from paper sheets and then reduced to compilation scale and patched in. Compilation sheets were scanned and vectorized; and the resulting digital bathymetric contour data constitutes the primary product. The data were hand contoured by geomorphologists to capture and portray the maximum information available, resulting in a degree of detail not attainable with machine contouring and the density of available data. Bathymetric contours were prepared by geologists using sounding data contained in the paper archives at the scale of the survey sheets (scales ranging from 1: 100,000 to 1: 10, 000); or from sounding data contained in digital data bases at standard scales of either 1: 100,000 or 1: 50,000. Details concerning the methods of compilation are given in the western Lake Erie paper (Holcombe, et al., 1997). Bathymetric contours have been spatially reconciled with the NOAA Coast Survey nominal scale 1:80,000 digital vector shoreline, which by definition coincides with the Lake Erie low water datum, the zero-depth employed for bathymetric surveys and nautical charting.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
52 Capabilities document for Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service for Digital Elevation Models Global Mosaic (Color Shaded Relief) https://gis.ngdc.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/DEM_mosaics/DEM_global_mosaic_hillshade/ImageServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
0 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ngdc.mgg.dem:312/html
50 online tool for grid extract http://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/wcs-client/
21 Home page for Lake Erie and Lake Saint Clair bathymetry data. https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/greatlakes/erie.html
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Text search for locating completed and planned DEMs. https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal
0 NOAA GeoPlatform listing for Digital Elevation Models Global Mosaic (Color Shaded Relief) https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=feb3c625dc094112bb5281c17679c769
0 A map service showing the location and coverage of land and seafloor digital elevation models (DEMs) available. https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=d41f39c8a6684c54b62c8f1ab731d5ad
0 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/coastal-elevation-models
0 NOAA GeoPlatform listing for NCEI Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Extents https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=0afa88a1701749dbbf76fcadca4f77f3
0 NOAA GeoPlatform listing for DEM Global Mosaic (Elevation Values) https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=c876e3c96a8642ab8557646a3b4fa0ff
0 Shaded relief visualization of a global seamless bathymetry/topography mosaic of digital elevation models at NOAA/NCEI. https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=e11ebaeb19544bb18c2afe440f063062
0 An image service providing access to bathymetric/topographic digital elevation models stewarded at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. Either individual DEMs or small subsets can be accessed through this service. https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=e9ba2e7afb7d46cd878b34aa3bfce042
23 REST endpoint for NCEI Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Extents ArcGIS Feature Service https://services2.arcgis.com/C8EMgrsFcRFL6LrL/arcgis/rest/services/ncei_dem_extents/FeatureServer
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 GLERL Publications Library full text http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
23 REST endpoint for Digital Elevation Models Global Mosaic (Color Shaded Relief) ArcGIS image service https://gis.ngdc.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/DEM_mosaics/DEM_global_mosaic_hillshade/ImageServer
0 The Bathymetric Data Viewer is an interactive map providing discovery, descriptions, and download capability for bathymetric survey data and digital elevation models archived at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/bathymetry/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
21 Please see website for more information about Coastal DEMs. https://ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/coastal.html

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  • digital elevation model
  • topography
  • terrestrial hydrosphere
  • surface water features
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  • united states of america
  • international council for science - world data system
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  • nesdis
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  • bathymetry
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  • baseline studies
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  • multibeam
  • coastlines
  • stratigraphic sequence
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  • geography and land cover
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