usSEABED: East Coast Offshore Surficial Sediment Data Release, Site Map

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U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 118, usSEABED: Atlantic Coast Offshore Surficial Sediment Data Release, version 1.0

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Abstract

Contents

Introduction
   - Future Plans, Updates and Online Usage in a GIS
   - Applications
           o Marine Aggregates Resources and Processes
           o National Benthic Habitats Studies

usSEABED (data)
   - How usSEABED is Built
   - Sources of Data
   - Data Themes and Output Files
           o Output Files
           o Relational Keys
           o Source Data
           o Textural and other basic information
           o Extracted data (_EXT)
           o Parsed data (_PRS)
           o Calculated data (_CLC)
           o Component/feature and facies data (_CMP, _FAC)
           o Relationship between the _PRS and _CMP outputs
   - Quality Control
   - Spatial and Temporal Uncertainties

dbSEABED (processing)
   - Introduction
   - Data Import Methods
   - The Numeric Data Type
   - The Linguistic Data Type
           o Calibrations
           o Parsing Description
   - Expansion of Data Coverage
           o Summary of the onCALCULATION methods used in dbSEABED

Data Catalog
   - Data Files
           o Sources
           o usSEABED Atlantic Data
           o Base Map Layers
           o Legends
                 -- Color
                 -- Roughness
                 -- ArcView Legends

References Cited

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Acknowledgments

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