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| Title: | Bathymetric Survey of the West Florida Shelf, Gulf of Mexico 2001 (NODC Accession 0001410) |
| Abstract: | A zone of deep-water reefs is thought to extend from the mid and outer shelf south of Mississippi and Alabama to at least the northwestern Florida shelf off Panama City, Florida. Reefs off Mississippi and Alabama are found in water depths of 60 to 120 m (Ludwick and Walton, 1957, Gardner et al., in press) and were the focus of a multibeam echosounder mapping survey by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 2000 (Gardner et al., 2000, in press). It is critical to determine the accurate geomorphology and type of the reefs that occur because of their importance as benthic habitats for fisheries. These data are ArcInfo GRID and XYZ ASCII format data generated from a U.S. Geological Survey multibeam sonar survey of the West Florida Shelf, Gulf of Mexico. The data include high-resolution bathymetry and calibrated acoustic backscatter. File types include arc files .dat, .nit, and .adf. Documentation is included as metadata .txt files. Because the area is so large (i.e., the file sizes are very large), the area was subdivided into North, Central, and South regions as reflected in the data subdirectories for this accession. |
| Date received: | 20040401 |
| Start date: | 20010903 |
| End date: | 20011012 |
| Seanames: | Gulf of Mexico |
| West boundary: | -86.71 |
| East boundary: | -84.61 |
| North boundary: | 30.06 |
| South boundary: | 28.04 |
| Observation types: | physical |
| Instrument types: | multibeam sonar |
| Datatypes: | BATHYMETRY |
| Submitter: | Gardner, James V. |
| Submitting institution: | US DOI; US Geological Survey; Western Region |
| Collecting institutions: | US DOI; US Geological Survey; Western Region |
| Contributing projects: | CORAL REEF STUDIES, CoRIS |
| Platforms: | MOANA WAVE |
| Number of observations: | 8 |
| Supplementary information: | Additional online information: Multibeam Mapping of the West Florida Shelf, Gulf of Mexico RV MOANA WAVE CRUISE M1-01-GM Cruise report (geopubs.wr.usgs.gov) These data are intended for science researchers, students, policy makers, and the general public. The data can be used with geographic information systems (GIS) or other software to display bathymetry and backscatter data of the West Florida Shelf, Gulf of Mexico. |
| Availability date: | 20040416 |
| Metadata version: | 6 |
| Keydate: | 2004-04-01 15:29:26+00 |
| Editdate: | 2009-12-03 22:32:47+00 |
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