Metadata: Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Heather A. Schreppel Originator: Carolyn H. Degnan Originator: Shawn V. Dadisman Originator: Dan R. Metzger Publication_Date: 2013 Title: Archive of U.S. Geological Survey selected single-beam bathymetry datasets, 1969-2000 Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Digital Document Series_Information: Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series Issue_Identification: 757 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: St. Petersburg, FL Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/757 Description: Abstract: Single-beam bathymetry data along with navigation data were collected as part of the U.S. Geological Survey scientific field work. This collection of 44 field activities were conducted at various locations in the Arctic Ocean, in the Bering Sea, and in the Pacific Ocean between April 27, 1977 and June 29, 2000. The overall purpose of these studies was to collect coastal and marine geophysical data. The geophysical sources for these bathymetry include 3.5 kilohertz (kHz), 7 kHz, 10 kHz, and 12 kHz echosounder systems. These data are reformatted from space-delimited ASCII text files located in the Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP) InfoBank field activity catalog at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/ into MGD77T format provided by the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center(NGDC). The MGD77T format includes a header (documentation) file (.h77t) and a data file (.m77t). More information regarding this format can be found in the publication listed in the Cross_reference section of this metadata file. Purpose: These data and information are intended for science researchers,students, policy makers, and general public. These data are not to be used for navigation purposes. The data are reformatted into MGD77T standard format for inclusion into NOAA's NGDC geophysical database. From there the data will be made available to GeoMapApp (http://www.geomapapp.org/) and Virtual Ocean (http://www.virtualocean.org/) Earth-browsing software. Access to the data is also provided via the USGS Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System (http://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/). Supplemental_Information: Navigation is an important element for any acoustic marine survey. The navigation data in this archive were collected with a number of different instruments and methods that are described below. SINS stands for Shipboard Integrated Navigation System. These integrated shipboard systems used transit satellite navigation and a number of subsystems that were used in dead reckoning between satellite fixes. These included Doppler sonar, speed-of-sound velocimeter, water temperature sensor, gyrocompass, electromagnetic speed log, radionavigation and other subsystems. SINS was highly variable and at best there was a 50 meters (m) accuracy. Loran-C stands for long range aids to navigation and was a federally provided radionavigation service managed by the U.S. Coast Guard. Low frequency radio signals transmitted by fixed land based radio beacons served the 48 continental states, their coastal areas, Hawaii, and parts of Alaska. The system provided better than 0.25 nautical mile accuracy for users. Loran-C could be utilized in different modes of operation; one of these was circular mode, also known as, range-range or RHO-RHO. It only needed a fix from two stations in order to establish a position and an accuracy of 20 to 40 m was achievable. In 2010, the Loran-C signal was discontinued, although Loran-C had been replaced for most oceanographic research vessels decades prior to 2010. The miniranger system is a range-range system that utilizes radar frequencies in the microwave band. It is limited to line of sight operation between two or more fixed transponders, but an individual reading can be accurate to 3 m. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based satellite navigation system maintained by the United States government and is accessible using a GPS receiver. Most GPS manufacturers quote accuracy of their receivers around 15 to 17 m. GPS is based upon the earth-centered coordinate system called the World Geodetic System of 1984 (WGS84) for horizontal and vertical positioning. Differential GPS (DGPS) uses a network of fixed, ground-based reference stations to augment the information available from satellites. This method provides an improved overall positional accuracy of 10 m or better. The Data Acquisition, Processing, and Storage (DAPS) group performs a number of processing steps to the navigation data once it is collected which can vary by cruise. These steps are outlined within the header information in each individual digital navigation (.0xx, .6xx) space-delimited ASCII data file. The header information rows are indicated by lines beginning with the character "!". The single-beam bathymetry data was collected both digitally and as analog records ranging from 3.5 kHz to 200 kHz systems. The bathymetry datasets were commonly processed using three programs:(A) Batred, which calculates depth from travel times; (B) nosamebathy, which eliminates identical adjacent bathymetry values; and (C) nozerobathy, which removes records with a depth value of "0.0". However, not all of the datasets included in this report were processed with one or more of these programs. Details about which processing steps were taken by the DAPS group can be found in the header information of the bathymetry and navigation ASCII files downloaded from InfoBank. Prior to reformatting the data into MGD77T format the "best" bathymetry and navigation files from InfoBank were edited to remove the header information and reformatted using Excel 2010 to separate the data into columns based on tabs. Next the bathymetry and navigation files were merged based on time and latitude and longitude. The combined navigation and bathymetry was saved as a .txt file. This combined bathymetry and navigation file was used as an input file into the GEODAS ReFormat to MDG77T program developed by NOAA's NGDC. The program outputs the reformatted data as a tab-delimited .m77t file. The program is available for use at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gdas/gx_announce.Html. For information regarding fields found within the MGD77T files please refer to the publication, Hittelman and others (2010), found within the Cross-reference section of this metadata file. Each MGD77T data file also has an accompanying header file (.h77t). The fields within these header files are also defined in the aforementioned publication. Fields were populated based on InfoBank metadata records, digital data file headers, and accompanying publications (often cruise reports) for the survey. If a field is unknown or did not apply to the dataset it is intentionally left blank. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 19770427 Ending_Date: 20000629 Currentness_Reference: data collection interval Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: 10.30551 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -117.13802 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 89.98766 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 16.38240 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: geoscientificinformation Theme_Keyword: oceans Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: Marine Geology Theme_Keyword: Marine Geophysics Theme_Keyword: Single-beam Bathymetry Theme_Keyword: Water Depth Theme_Keyword: Seafloor Topography Theme_Keyword: Bathymetry Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Place_Keyword: Arctic Ocean Place_Keyword: Beaufort Sea Place_Keyword: Bering Glacier Place_Keyword: Carmel Bay Place_Keyword: Central Pacific Ocean Place_Keyword: City of San Francisco Place_Keyword: Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Place_Keyword: Glacier Bay Place_Keyword: Grizzly Bay Place_Keyword: Gulf of Alaska Place_Keyword: Gulf of the Farallones Place_Keyword: Humboldt Bay Place_Keyword: Icy Bay Place_Keyword: Icy Strait Place_Keyword: Juan de Fuca Ridge Place_Keyword: Kauai Place_Keyword: Long Beach Place_Keyword: Los Angeles Place_Keyword: Mamala Bay Place_Keyword: Mamula Bay Place_Keyword: Monterey Place_Keyword: Monterey Bay Place_Keyword: Monterey Canyon Place_Keyword: North California Place_Keyword: North Pacific Ocean Place_Keyword: Northern California Place_Keyword: Oahu Place_Keyword: Pacific Ocean Place_Keyword: Point Dume Place_Keyword: Point Sur Place_Keyword: Port Hueneme Place_Keyword: Prince William Sound Place_Keyword: San Diego Place_Keyword: San Francisco Bay Place_Keyword: San Pablo Bay Place_Keyword: San Pedro Bay Place_Keyword: Santa Monica Bay Place_Keyword: Southern California Place_Keyword: State of Alaska Place_Keyword: State of California Place_Keyword: State of Hawaii Place_Keyword: State of Oregon Place_Keyword: State of Washington Place_Keyword: Suisun Bay Place_Keyword: Vitus Lake Place_Keyword: Yakutat Bay Access_Constraints: None. These data are held in the public domain. Use_Constraints: This information is not intended for navigational purposes. Read and fully comprehend the metadata prior to data use. Uses of these data should not violate the spatial resolution of the data. Where these data are used in combination with other data of different resolution, the resolution of the combined output will be limited by the lowest resolution of all the data. Acknowledge the U.S. Geological Survey in products derived from these data. Share data products developed using these data with the U.S. Geological Survey. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical Address: 600 4th Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 803-8747, ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Data_Set_Credit: U.S. Geological Survey Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Hittelman, Allen M., Groman, Robert C., Haworth, Richard T., Holcombe, Troy L., McHendrie, Graig, Smith, Stuart M., and Metzger, Dan R. Publication_Date: 2010 Title: The marine geophysical data exchange format - MGD77 / MGD77T Publication_Information: Publisher: National Geophysical Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Publication_Place: Boulder, CO Other_Citation_Details: 25 p. Online_Linkage: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/dat/geodas/docs/mgd77.pdf Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: The validity or accuracy of bathymetry and navigation data is highly qualitative and depends on equipment and operating condition variables. Data quality is unknown, MGD77T files were formatted from InfoBank files identified as best available version. Logical_Consistency_Report: Data in this set are from multiple cruises or field activities. The range of instruments used and of processing done are described in Supplemental_Information. Completeness_Report: Varies by cruise, see Supplemental_Information for more details. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Varies by cruise or field activity, see Supplemental_Information for accuracy values of different instruments used. Vertical_Positional_Accuracy: Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Varies by cruise or field activity, see Supplemental_Information for accuracy values of different instruments used. Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: Navigation data was obtained using various methods described in the Supplemental_Information section of this metadata. The DAPS group received the navigation data and processed it. Details about which processing steps were taken by the DAPS group can be found in the header information of the navigation ASCII files downloaded from InfoBank. Process_Date: Unknown Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology (CMG) Contact_Person: Carolyn H. Degnan Contact_Position: Geophysicist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: USGS Pacific Coastal & Marine Science Center, 400 Natural Bridges Drive City: Santa Cruz State_or_Province: CA Postal_Code: 95060-5792 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (831) 460-7452 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (831) 427-4748 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: infobank@octopus.wr.usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The bathymetry datasets were commonly processed by the DAPS using three programs. A) Batred calculates depth from travel times; B) nosamebathy eliminates identical adjacent bathymetry values; and C) nozerobathy removes records with a depth value of "0.0". However, not all of the datasets included in this report were processed with one or more of these programs. Details about which processing steps were taken by the DAPS group can be found in the header information of the bathymetry ASCII files downloaded from InfoBank. Process_Date: Unknown Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology (CMG) Contact_Person: Carolyn H. Degnan Contact_Position: Geophysicist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: USGS Pacific Coastal & Marine Science Center, 400 Natural Bridges Drive City: Santa Cruz State_or_Province: CA Postal_Code: 95060-5792 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (831) 460-7452 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (831) 427-4748 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: infobank@octopus.wr.usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: A navigation file identified as the best available version in InfoBank for this cruise was copied and saved as an ASCII text file to be combined with the best available bathymetry file for processing to MGD77T format. For details regarding processing steps performed on these best available files from InfoBank, please see the header information within the original files at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/ and previous processing steps. Process_Date: 2012 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to the U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 600 4th Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-803-8747 ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: A bathymetry file identified as the best available version in InfoBank for this cruise was copied and saved as an ASCII text file to be combined with the best available navigation file for processing to MGD77T format. For details regarding processing steps performed on these best available files from InfoBank, please see the header information within the original files at http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/. Process_Date: 2012 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to the U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 600 4th Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-803-8747 ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The best available bathymetry and navigation text files were concatenated into one tab-delimited file using Excel 2010 and several Visual Basic Applications (VBA) macros. InfoBank header information is removed and text is broken into columns and the rows are combined based on the presence of the same values in the time and latitude and longitude columns. Process_Date: 2012 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to the U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 600 4th Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-803-8747 ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The combined bathymetry and navigation file was used as an input file into the GEODAS ReFormat to MDG77T program developed by NOAA's NGDC. The program outputs the reformatted data as a tab-delimited .m77t file. The program is available for use at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gdas/gx_announce.Html Process_Date: 2012 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to the U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 600 4th Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-803-8747 ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: To create the accompanying header files (.h77t), an excel spreadsheet was supplied from NGDC with already populated required field names. For information for header field requirements and definitions see: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/dat/geodas/docs/mgd77.pdf. When creating a header file for each cruise, fields were populated in the header spreadsheet based on InfoBank metadata records, digital data file headers, and accompanying publications (often cruise reports) for the survey. If a field was unknown or did not apply to the dataset it was intentionally left blank. Process_Date: 2012 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to the U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 600 4th Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-803-8747 ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Indirect_Spatial_Reference: Varies based on cruise location. Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.000001 Longitude_Resolution: 0.000001 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_WGS_1984 Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.25722210100002 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: "cruiseid".m77t Entity_Type_Definition: MGD77T single-beam bathymetry data file for each cruise. The "cruiseid" is defined as the Cruise identifier. A list is found in the Data Collection section of the data archive. Entity_Type_Definition_Source: NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center, See Hittelman and others (2010) Cross_Reference section above for details about the MGD77T format and citation information. Attribute: Attribute_Label: SURVEY_ID Attribute_Definition: Survey identifier supplied by the contributing organization Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: This identifier varies in format and is supplied by the contributing organization Attribute: Attribute_Label: TIMEZONE Attribute_Definition: Time-zone correction Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: In our datasets, no correction was applied. All values equal 0. Attribute: Attribute_Label: DATE Attribute_Definition: YYYYMMDD Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 19770427 Range_Domain_Maximum: 20000629 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Year, month, day Attribute: Attribute_Label: TIME Attribute_Definition: Time Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0000 Range_Domain_Maximum: 2359 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: hours and decimal minutes Attribute: Attribute_Label: LAT Attribute_Definition: Latitude Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 16.38240 Range_Domain_Maximum: 89.98766 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees Attribute: Attribute_Label: LON Attribute_Definition: Longitude Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 10.30551 Range_Domain_Maximum: -117.13802 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees Attribute: Attribute_Label: POS_TYPE Attribute_Definition: Indicates how lat/lon was obtained Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Observed fix Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 3 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Interpolated fix Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: nil Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: unspecified Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute: Attribute_Label: BAT_TTIME Attribute_Definition: Bathymetry, 2-way travel time Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.0008 Range_Domain_Maximum: 117.39067 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: seconds Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: "cruiseid".h77t Entity_Type_Definition: MGD77T single-beam bathymetry header file for each cruise. The "cruiseid" is defined as the Cruise identifier. A list is found in the Data Collection section of the data archive. Entity_Type_Definition_Source: NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center, See Hittelman and others (2010) Cross_Reference section above for details about the MGD77T format and citation information. Attribute: Attribute_Label: SURVEY_ID Attribute_Definition: Survey identifier supplied by the contributing organization Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: This identifier varies in format and is supplied by the contributing organization Attribute: Attribute_Label: FORMAT_77 Attribute_Definition: Format Acronym Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: PARAMS_CO Attribute_Definition: Parameters surveyed codes. Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Status of geophysical parameters for this survey. See Hittelman and others (2010) from the Cross_Reference section above for details. Attribute: Attribute_Label: INST_SRC Attribute_Definition: Source Institution Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: COUNTRY Attribute_Definition: Country Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: PLATFORM Attribute_Definition: Platform name Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: PLAT_TYPCO Attribute_Definition: Platform type code Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: nil Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Unspecified Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Surface Ship Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 2 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Submersible Ship Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 3 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Aircraft Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 4 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Buoy Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 5 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Mobile land Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 6 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Fixed land Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 7 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Deep tow Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute: Attribute_Label: PLAT_TYP Attribute_Definition: Platform type Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: CHIEF Attribute_Definition: Chief Scientist(s) Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: PROJECT Attribute_Definition: Project, cruise, leg Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: FUNDING Attribute_Definition: funding Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: DATE_DEP Attribute_Definition: survey departure date Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 19770427 Range_Domain_Maximum: 20000629 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: YYYYMMDD (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day) Attribute: Attribute_Label: PORT_DEP Attribute_Definition: port of departure Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: DATE_ARR Attribute_Definition: survey arrival date Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 19770427 Range_Domain_Maximum: 20000629 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: YYYYMMDD (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day) Attribute: Attribute_Label: PORT_ARR Attribute_Definition: port of arrival Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: NAV_INSTR Attribute_Definition: navigation instrumentation Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: POS_INFO Attribute_Definition: position determination method/ geodetic datum Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: BATH_INSTR Attribute_Definition: bathymetry instrumentation Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: BATH_ADD Attribute_Definition: additional forms of bathymetry Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: LAT_TOP Attribute_Definition: Latitude Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 16.38240 Range_Domain_Maximum: 89.98766 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees Attribute: Attribute_Label: LAT_BOTTOM Attribute_Definition: Latitude Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 16.38240 Range_Domain_Maximum: 89.98766 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees Attribute: Attribute_Label: LON_LEFT Attribute_Definition: Longitude Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 10.30551 Range_Domain_Maximum: -117.13802 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees Attribute: Attribute_Label: LON_RIGHT Attribute_Definition: Longitude Attribute_Definition_Source: World Geodetic System 1984 Geographic Coordinate System Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 10.30551 Range_Domain_Maximum: -117.13802 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees Attribute: Attribute_Label: BATH_DRATE Attribute_Definition: general digitizing rate of bathymetry Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: SOUND_VEL Attribute_Definition: assumed sound velocity Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string description Attribute: Attribute_Label: VDATUM_CO Attribute_Definition: bathymetric vertical datum Attribute_Definition_Source: NGDC Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: In our datasets, no correction was applied. All values equal 0. Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: Bathymetry and navigation data for U.S. Geological Survey bathymetry surveys in MGD77T format. Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: Attributes are obtained from MGD77T data files created from the navigation and bathymetry best files. MGD77T is the standard, defined data format used for geophysical data in the National Geophysical Data Center. The MGD77T format contains more attributes than defined here. Attributes that were null for this data were not included. Details about other attributes can be found in Hittelman and others (2010), see Cross_Reference section above for citation details. Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20120731 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Heather A. Schreppel Contact_Organization: Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions, contracted to the U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: IT Management Specialist/Database Support Assistant Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: U.S. Geological Survey, 600 Fourth Street South City: St. Petersburg State_or_Province: FL Postal_Code: 33701 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (727) 803-8747, ext. 3013 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hschreppel@usgs.gov Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998