Description
From 4 November to 3 December 1985 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a single cruise to map the entire sea-floor of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. As in earlier EEZ reconnaissance surveys, the USGS utilized the GLORIA (Geological LOng-Range Inclined Asdic) sidescan-sonar system to complete the geologic mapping. The collected GLORIA data were processed and digitally mosaicked to produce continuous imagery of the sea-floor. A total of 9 digital mosaics of a 2 degree by 2 degree (or smaller) area with a 50-meter pixel resolution were completed for the U.S. Puerto Rico EEZ.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Metadata | XML | The metadata original format | Open resource |
| Digital Data | XML | Landing page for access to the data | Open resource |
Tags
- 250-meter
- acoustic-receivers
- acoustic-reflectivity
- albers-equal-area
- atlantic-ocean
- backscatter
- caribbean-sea
- cmgp
- coastal-and-marine-geology-program
- composite-mosaic
- continental-island-rise
- continental-island-slope
- continental-margin
- continental-rise
- continental-shelf
- continental-slope
- distributions
- eez
- exclusive-economic-zone
- exclusive-economic-zone-eez
- geological-long-range-inclined-asdic
- geoscientificinformation
- geotiff-image
- gloria
- gloria-gt-geological-long-range-inclined-asdic
- greater-antilles-ecoregion
- grey-scale-image
- image-mosaics
- imagerybasemapsearthcover
- marine-basin-floor
- marine-geology
- marine-geophysics
- marine-oceanic
- mona-canyon
- muertos-trough
- ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean
- ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean-gt-north-atlantic-ocean
- ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean-gt-north-atlantic-ocean-gt-caribbean-sea
- ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean-gt-north-atlantic-ocean-gt-caribbean-sea-gt-puerto-rico
- ocean-gt-atlantic-ocean-gt-north-atlantic-ocean-gt-caribbean-sea-gt-virgin-islands
- oceans
- oceans-gt-ocean-acoustics-gt-acoustic-reflectivity
- physical-habitats-and-geomorphology
- puerto-rico
- puerto-rico-trench
- seabed
- sea-floor-acoustic-reflectivity
- sea-floor-characteristics
- side-scan-sonar
- sidescan-sonar
- sidescan-sonar-mosaic
- trench
- u-s-geological-survey
- usgs
- usgs-6735fd4d-58f5-43d4-b295-87fe1f852404
- virgin-islands
- virgin-island-shelf
- whsc
- whsc-cruise-identifier-frnl85-4
- whsc-cruise-identifier-frnl85leg4
- whsc-serial-number-85039
- woods-hole-science-center