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Data Series 1005


Archive of Bathymetry and Backscatter Data Collected in 2014 Nearshore Breton and Gosier Islands, Breton National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana

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Data Processing
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Abbreviations

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BASE Bathymetry Based on Statistical Error
BIM Barrier Island Mapping
Chirp Compressed High Intensity Radar Pulse
cm Centimeter
CUBE Combined Uncertainty and Bathymetry Estimator
DEM Digital Elevation Model
DGPS Differential Global Positioning System
Esri Environmental Systems Research Institute
FACS Field Activity Collection System
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee
ft Foot
GIS Geographic Information System
GMT Generic Mapping Tools
GUIS Gulf Islands National Seashore
GPS Global Positioning System
GRS80 Geodetic Reference System of 1980
HIPS Hydrographic Information Processing System
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
Hz Hertz
IFB Interferometric Bathymetry
in Inch
ID Identification
Inc. Incorporated
IMU Inertial Measurement Unit
ITRF00 International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2000
ITRF05 International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2005
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
KB Kilobyte
kHz Kilohertz
kn Knot
km Kilometer
km2 Kilometer squared
La. Louisiana
Lidar Light Detection and Ranging
Ltd. Limited
m Meter
MB Megabyte(s)
μSEC microsecond
MLLW Mean Lower Low Water
MsCIP Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program
m/s Meters per second
ms Millisecond
N North
NAD83 North American Datum 1983
NAVD88 North American Vertical Datum 1988
NetCDF Network Common Data Form
NGS National Geodetic Survey
NPS National Park Service
NGOM Northern Gulf of Mexico
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NWR National Wildlife Refuge
PDF Portable Document Format
RTK Real Time Kinematic
RMS Root Mean Square
R/V Research Vessel
s Second
SBB Single-Beam Bathymetry
SEA Systems Engineering and Assessment
SIPS Sonar Information Processing System
SOS Speed of Sound
SPCMSC Saint Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
SSS Side-scan Sonar
SVP Sound Velocity Profile
SVS Sound Velocity Sensor
SXP SEA Ltd. Swath Processor Processed File
SXR SEA Ltd. Swath Processor Raw File
SXS SEA Ltd. Swath Processor Session File
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
TIN Triangulated Irregular Network
USACE United States Army Corps of Engineers
USFWS United States Fish and Wildlife Service
USGS United States Geological Survey
UTC Coordinated Universal Time
UTM Universal Transverse Mercator
W Watt
WGS84 World Geodetic System 1984
XML Extensible Markup Language
XTF Extended Triton Format

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