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Data Series 1049


Coastal Bathymetry Data Collected in May 2015 From Fire Island, New York: Wilderness Breach and Shoreface

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Abbreviations

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BGAN Broadband Global Area Network
.BIN Binary output file from Hypack
cm Centimeter
CORS Continuously Operating Reference Stations
CR Choke Ring
CSV Comma Separated Values
CTD Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth
DEM Digital Elevation Model
FAN Field Activity Number
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee
GeoTIFF Georeferenced Tagged Image File Format
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
GPS Global Positioning System
Hz Hertz
KB Kilobyte
kHz Kilohertz
km Kilometer
m Meter
MB Megabyte
m/s Meters per Second
NAVD88 North American Vertical Datum of 1988
NAD83 North American Datum of 1983
NGS National Geodetic Survey
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
N.Y. New York
OPUS Online Positioning User Services
PC Personal Computer
PID Permanent Identification
PWC Personal Watercraft
.RAW GPS data saved by Hypack
REST GPS Benchmark at Robins Rest
RMS Root Mean Square
s Second
SPCMSC St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
TIN Triangulated Irregular Network
USGS United States Geological Survey
UTC Coordinated Universal Time
UTM Universal Transverse Mercator
VC GPS Benchmark at the Wilderness Visitor Center
WGS84 World Geodetic System 1984
x Easting
y Northing
z Elevation
ZIP Compressed archival file format

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