Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: David C. Twichell Originator: VeeAnn A. Cross Publication_Date: 2003 Title: Enhanced TIFF Sidescan-Sonar Mosaic of Virgin Basin - Lake Mead, Nevada: Geographic Coordinates Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: remote-sensing image Online_Linkage: Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: David C. Twichell Originator: VeeAnn A. Cross Originator: Stephen D. Belew Publication_Date: 2003 Title: Mapping the floor of Lake Mead (Nevada and Arizona): Preliminary discussion and GIS data release Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 03-320 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Woods Hole Field Center, Woods Hole, MA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Description: Abstract: Lake Mead is a large interstate reservoir located in the Mojave Desert of southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona. It was impounded in 1935 by the construction of Hoover Dam and is one of a series of multi-purpose reservoirs on the Colorado River. The lake extends 183 km from the mouth of the Grand Canyon to Black Canyon, the site of Hoover Dam, and provides water for residential, commercial, industrial, recreational, and other non-agricultural users in communities across the southwestern United States. Extensive research has been conducted on Lake Mead, but a majority of the studies have involved determining levels of anthropogenic contaminants such as synthetic organic compounds, heavy metals and dissolved ions, furans/dioxins, and nutrient loading in lake water, sediment, and biota (Preissler, et al., 1998; Bevans et al, 1996; Bevans et al., 1998; Covay and Leiker, 1998; LaBounty and Horn, 1997; Paulson, 1981). By contrast, little work has focused on the sediments in the lake and the processes of deposition (Gould, 1951). To address these questions, sidescan-sonar imagery and high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles were collected throughout Lake Mead by the USGS in cooperation with researchers from University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). These data allow a detailed mapping of the surficial geology and the distribution and thickness of sediment that has accumulated in the lake since the completion of Hoover Dam. Results indicate that the accumulation of post-impoundment sediment is primarily restricted to former river and stream beds that are now submerged below the lake while the margins of the lake appear to be devoid of post-impoundment sediment. The sediment cover along the original Colorado River bed is continuous and is typically greater than 10 m thick through much of its length. Sediment thickness in some areas exceeds 35 m while the smaller tributary valleys typically are filled with less than 4 m of sediment. Away from the river beds that are now covered with post-impoundment sediment, pre-impoundment alluvial deposits and rock outcrops are still exposed on the lake floor. Purpose: This sidescan-sonar imagery is used to map the morphology of the lake floor and determine the extent of sediment distribution on the lake floor. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20010401 Ending_Date: 20010426 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -114.633745 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -114.344394 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 36.181256 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 36.063664 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Theme_Keyword: CMGP Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program Theme_Keyword: images Theme_Keyword: mosaic Theme_Keyword: OFR03-320 Theme_Keyword: Open-File Report Theme_Keyword: reservoir Theme_Keyword: sidescan Theme_Keyword: sidescan sonar Theme_Keyword: TIFF Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey Theme_Keyword: USGS Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Field Center Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Place_Keyword: Arizona Place_Keyword: Colorado River Place_Keyword: Lake Mead Place_Keyword: Las Vegas Place_Keyword: Mojave Desert Place_Keyword: Nevada Place_Keyword: Overton Arm Place_Keyword: United States Place_Keyword: Virgin Basin Place_Keyword: North America Access_Constraints: NONE Use_Constraints: The U.S. Geological Survey must be referenced as the originator of the dataset in any future products or research derived from these data. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: David C. Twichell Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Oceanographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2266 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dtwichell@usgs.gov Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 4; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.2.0.700 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: H.E. Bevans Originator: S.L. Goodbred Originator: J.F. Miesner Originator: S.A. Watkins Originator: T.S. Gross Originator: N.D. Denslow Originator: T. Choeb Publication_Date: 1996 Title: Synthetic organic compounds and carp endrocrinology and histology, Las Vegas Wash and Las Vegas and Callville bays of Lake Mead Nevada Series_Information: Series_Name: Water-Resources Investigations Issue_Identification: 96-4266 Publication_Information: Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: H.E. Bevans Originator: M.S. Lico Originator: S.J. Lawrence Publication_Date: 1998 Title: Water quality in the Las Vegas Valley area and the Carson and Truckee River basins, Nevada and California, 1992-1996 Series_Information: Series_Name: Circular Issue_Identification: 1170 Publication_Information: Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: K.J. Couvay Originator: T.J. Leiker Publication_Date: 1998 Title: Synthetic organic compounds in water and bottom sediment from streams, detention basins, and sewage-treatment plant outfalls in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, 1997 Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 98-633 Publication_Information: Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: H.R. Gould Publication_Date: 1951 Title: Some quantitative aspects of Lake Mead turbidity currents Series_Information: Series_Name: SEPM Special Publication Issue_Identification: No. 2 Publication_Information: Publisher: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: J.F. LaBounty Originator: M.J. Horn Publication_Date: 1997 Title: The influence of drainage from the Las Vegas Valley on the limnology of Boulder Basin, Lake Mead, Arizona-Nevada Series_Information: Series_Name: Journal of Lake and Reservoir Management Issue_Identification: v. 13 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: L.J. Paulson Publication_Date: 1981 Title: Nutrient management with hydroelectric dams on the Colorado River Series_Information: Series_Name: Technical Report Issue_Identification: #8 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada Publisher: Lake Mead Limnological Research Center Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: A.M. Preissler Originator: G.A. Roach Originator: K.A. Thomas Originator: J.W. Wilson Publication_Date: 1998 Title: Water resources data, Nevada, water year 1998 Series_Information: Series_Name: Water Resources Data Nevada Issue_Identification: NV-98-1 Publication_Information: Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: All these data were collected with the same sidescan-sonar towfish. The majority of the data comprising this mosaic was acquired at a 1500m total swath width. In some small areas, data gaps were filled with data collected at a 750m total swath width. However, in each case, the data were resampled to a 2 m pixel size. Completeness_Report: All imagery necessary to map the lake floor was used. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: The ship was navigated with P-CODE GPS. The towfish was deployed at approximately the same depth each day, with little variation during the course of the survey. Therefore range to fish values are assumed consistent and accurate. Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: Sidescan sonar imagery was collected using a Datasonics SIS-1000 sidescan sonar system and logged to a Triton QMIPS data logging computer. Process_Step: Process_Description: The digital sidescan data were then processed and mapped to provide proper geographic locations of features identified in the imagery. The processing steps included subsampling the raw sidescan data using a median filtering routine to suppress speckle noise and reduce file size, and corrrect for slant-range distortion, signal attenuation, and dropped sonar lines using XSonar (Danforth et al., 1991). After these processing steps, the imagery was mapped into its proper geographic location using techniques summarized by Paskevich (1996). Individual sidescan swaths were mapped with each pixel geographically positioned at a resolution of 2 m/pixel. Due to the difficult nature of working in a lake environment, XSonar was modified by Danforth to incorporate the ability to exclude portions of the imagery from the beam angle correction routine. This enabled the stark contrast between highly reflection rock outcrops and fine-grained sediment deposits to be preserved. This enhancement was not available in 2001 when the data were collected, so the data were reprocessed in 2001. Processing the data up to this point was done be VeeAnn Cross. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Danforth, W.W., O'Brien, T.F., and Schwab, W.C., 1991, USGS image processing system: near real-time mosaicking of high-resolutoin sidescan-sonar data: Sea Technology, Jan., 1991, p. 54-59. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Paskevich, V.F., 1996, MAPIT: An improved method for mapping digital sidescan sonar data using the Woods Hole Image Processing System (WHIPS) software: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-281, 73p. Process_Step: Process_Description: Non-overlapping swaths were then brought into the remote sensing software package PCI. The techniques for generating the composite digital sidscan mosaic are summarized by Paskevich (1992). Processing of the data from this point on was done by David C. Twichell. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Paskevich, V.F., 1992, Digital mapping of sidescan sonar data with the Woods Hole Image Processing System software: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-536, 87p. Process_Step: Process_Description: Because of the close relationship of the imagery to the topography of the lake, a shaded-relief image generated from the DEM with the 10m contours burned into it was imported to PCI and the sidescan-sonar image strips were georeferenced to it. Misalignments based on the ground control points that were selected between the sidescan-sonar imagery and the DEM after georeferencing were less than 20m in all areas of the lake except a small section of Black Canyon and part of Boulder Canyon. Process_Step: Process_Description: The mosaic then had a linear stretch applied to the data to reduce the valid data range from 0-255 to 0-254. When mapped on a white background, the background can be made transparent in the GIS without affecting the data. Process_Step: Process_Description: Once the mosaics were completed, noise and areas of no data were trimmed from the fringes of the completed mosaic. The lake shoreline as defined by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation was used to trim noise and nodata areas that fell beyond the limits of the lake. Process_Step: Process_Description: A root stretch was applied in PCI to the sidescan image to help enhance the features. The root stretch was from 15-220 with resulting values between 0 and 254. This was done so that the white background (255) could be made transparent in the GIS. Process_Step: Process_Description: The UTM projected image was the reprojected to Geographic coordinates using BlueMarble's Geographic Transformer software. Transform parameters used a resolution of 2m/pixel and a central latitude of 36N. Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Raster Raster_Object_Information: Raster_Object_Type: Pixel Row_Count: 6523 Column_Count: 12987 Vertical_Count: 1 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.000018 Longitude_Resolution: 0.000022 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees Planar: Planar_Coordinate_Information: Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: row and column Coordinate_Representation: Abscissa_Resolution: 0.000022 Ordinate_Resolution: 0.000018 Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_WGS_1984 Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257224 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: Band_1 Attribute: Attribute_Label: ObjectID Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number. Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Attribute: Attribute_Label: Value Attribute: Attribute_Label: Red Attribute: Attribute_Label: Green Attribute: Attribute_Label: Blue Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: The pixel value represents the DN return value of the sidescan-sonar system. A high value (ie 254) indicates a highly reflective lake floor surface, while a low value (ie 0) indicates low reflectance. Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: David C. Twichell Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Oceanographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. 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