Bathymetry--Offshore of Salt Point Map Area, California

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Peter Dartnell

Originator: Rikk G. Kvitek

Publication_Date: 2014

Title: Bathymetry--Offshore of Salt Point Map Area, California

Edition: 1.0

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: GeoTiff

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Samuel Y. Johnson

Originator: Peter Dartnell

Originator: Nadine E. Golden

Originator: Stephen R. Hartwell

Originator: H. Gary Greene

Originator: Mercedes D. Erdey

Originator: Guy R. Cochrane

Originator: Rikk G. Kvitek

Originator: Michael W. Manson

Originator: Charles A. Endris

Originator: Bryan E. Dieter

Originator: Janet T. Watt

Originator: Lisa M. Krigsman

Originator: Ray W. Sliter

Originator: Erik N. Lowe

Originator: John L. Chin

Publication_Date: 2015

Title:

California State Waters Map Series--Offshore of Salt Point map area, California

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Open-File Report

Issue_Identification: OFR 2015-1098

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1098/>

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Nadine E. Golden

Publication_Date: 2013

Title: California State Waters Map Series Data Catalog

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: database

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Data Series

Issue_Identification: DS 781

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/>

Description:

Abstract:

This part of DS 781 presents data for the bathymetry and shaded-relief maps of the Offshore of Salt Point map area, California. Raster data file is included in "Bathymetry_OffshoreSaltPoint.zip", which is accessible from <https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/OffshoreSaltPoint/data_catalog_OffshoreSaltPoint.html>.

The bathymetry and shaded-relief maps of the Offshore of Salt Point Map Area, California, were generated from bathymetry data collected by California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB), and by Fugro Pelagos. Mapping was completed between 2007 and 2010, using a combination of 200-kHz and 400-kHz Reson 7125, and 244-kHz Reson 8101 multibeam echosounders, as well as 468-kHz SEA SWATHPlus interferometric system. These mapping missions combined to collect bathymetry from about the 10-m isobath to beyond the 3-nautical-mile limit of California's State Waters. NOTE: the horizontal datum of the bathymetry data (NAD83) differs from the horizontal datum of other layers in this DS (WGS84). These data are not intended for navigational purposes.

Purpose:

To expand geologic mapping to the seafloor within the California's State Waters, to update coastal geologic mapping, and to contribute to a uniform regional geologic database, which can be used geographic information systems. Additionally, to provide a geologic map for the public and geoscience community to aid in assessments and mitigation of geologic hazards in the Point Reyes coastal region and to provide sufficient geologic information for land-use and land-management decisions both onshore and offshore. This information is not intended for navigational purposes.

Supplemental_Information: None

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 2007

Ending_Date: 2010

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -123.48

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -123.28

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 38.64

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 38.48

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)

Theme_Keyword: Oceans > Bathymetry/SeafloorTopography > Bathymetry

Theme_Keyword: Oceans > Bathymetry/SeafloorTopography > Seafloor Topography

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation

Theme_Keyword: environment

Theme_Keyword: oceans

Theme_Keyword: imageryBaseMapsEarthCover

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General

Theme_Keyword: Seafloor Character

Theme_Keyword: Fisheries

Theme_Keyword: Ecosystem

Theme_Keyword: Multibeam

Theme_Keyword: Geology

Theme_Keyword: Bathymetry

Theme_Keyword: Backscatter

Theme_Keyword: Intensity

Theme_Keyword: Ocean Floor Topography

Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey

Theme_Keyword: USGS

Theme_Keyword: Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Theme_Keyword: CMGP

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

Place_Keyword: Pacific Ocean

Place_Keyword: State of California

Place_Keyword: Northern California

Place_Keyword: Salt Point

Place_Keyword: Sonoma County

Access_Constraints:

If physical samples or materials are available, constraints on their on-site access are described in "WR CMG Sample Distribution Policy" at URL: <http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/programs/html/main/sample-dist-policy.html>

Use_Constraints:

This information is not intended for navigational purposes.
This database has been approved for release and publication by the Director of the USGS. Although this database has been subjected to rigorous review and is substantially complete, the USGS reserves the right to revise the data pursuant to further analysis and review. Furthermore, it is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the United States Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use.
USGS-authored or produced data and information are in the public domain. Acknowledge the U.S. Geological Survey and California State University, Monterey Bay, Seafloor Mapping Lab in products derived from these data. Share data products developed using these data with the U.S. Geological Survey.
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.
Although this Federal Geographic Data Committee-compliant metadata file is intended to document these data in nonproprietary form, as well as in ArcInfo format, this metadata file may include some ArcInfo-specific terminology.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Peter Dartnell

Contact_Organization:

U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Contact_Position: Physical Scientist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 400 Natural Bridges Dr.

City: Santa Cruz

State_or_Province: CA

Postal_Code: 95060-5792

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (831) 460-7415

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (831) 427-4709

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pdartnell@usgs.gov

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name:

<https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/OffshoreSaltPoint/images/Bathymetry_OffshoreSaltPoint.jpg>

Browse_Graphic_File_Description:

Acoustic bathymetry imagery of the Offshore of Salt Point map area.

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report: Not applicable for raster data.

Logical_Consistency_Report: Unspecified

Completeness_Report: Complete

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Estimated to be no less than 2 m, owing to water depth and total propagated uncertainties of the mapping systems, which include sonar system, position and motion compensation system, and navigation, as well as data processing that includes sounding cleaning, gridding, and datum transformations.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Estimated to be no less than 20 cm, owing to water depth and total propagated uncertainties of the mapping systems, which include sonar system, position and motion compensation system, and navigation, as well as data processing that includes sounding cleaning, gridding, and datum transformations.

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

During the Fugro Pelagos and CSUMB mapping missions, an Applanix Position and Motion Compensation System for Marine Vessels (POS/MV, 320, v4) was used to accurately position the vessels during data collection, and it also accounted for vessel's motion such as heave, pitch, and roll (position accuracy, +/-2 m; pitch, roll, and heading accuracy, +/-0.02 degrees; heave accuracy, +/-5%, or 5 cm). KGPS altitude data (Fugro Pelagos, StarFix HP & XP units; CSUMB, NavCom 2050) were used to account for tide cycle fluctuations and sound velocity profiles were collected with an Applied Microsystems SVPlus sound velocimeter. Soundings were corrected for vessel motion using the Applanix POS/MV data, for variations in water-column sound velocity using the AM SVPlus data, and for variations in water height (tides) using vertical-position data from the KGPS receivers.

Process_Date: 2010

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Carrie Bretz

Contact_Organization: Seafloor Mapping Lab, California State Univ. Monterey Bay

Contact_Position: Projects manager, GIS and metadata supervisor

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 100 Campus Center, Bldg 13

City: Seaside

State_or_Province: CA

Postal_Code: 93955

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (831) 582-4197

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: cbretz@csumb.edu

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

California Seafloor Mapping Project 2-m-resolution bathymetry data within this map were downloaded from <http://seafloor.csumb.edu/SFMLwebDATA.htm>.

Process_Date: 2012

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Pete Dartnell

Contact_Organization:

U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Contact_Position: Physical Scientist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 400 Natural Bridges Dr.

City: Santa Cruz

State_or_Province: CA

Postal_Code: 95060-5792

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (831) 460-7415

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pdartnell@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Merge all bathymetry data into 2-m-resolution bathymetry grid and clip to the Offshore of Salt Point, California, map boundary. To create the shaded-relief imagery, an illumination having an azimuth of 300 degrees and 45 degrees above the horizon was applied to the bathymetry grid. Project shaded-relief grid from NAD-83 coordinates to WGS-84 coordinates using ESRI ArcTools.

Process_Date: 2013

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Pete Dartnell

Contact_Organization:

U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Contact_Position: Physical Scientist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 400 Natural Bridges Dr.

City: Santa Cruz

State_or_Province: CA

Postal_Code: 95060-5792

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (831) 460-7415

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pdartnell@usgs.gov

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Raster

Raster_Object_Information:

Raster_Object_Type: Grid Cell

Row_Count: 8870

Column_Count: 8890

Vertical_Count: 1

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Grid_Coordinate_System:

Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: Universal Transverse Mercator

Universal_Transverse_Mercator:

UTM_Zone_Number: 10

Transverse_Mercator:

Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.9996

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -123.00000

Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.00000

False_Easting: 500000.0

False_Northing: 0.00

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 2.0

Ordinate_Resolution: 2.0

Planar_Distance_Units: Meters

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: NAD83

Ellipsoid_Name: GRS80

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.00 meters

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257223563

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

The complete Offshore of Salt Point bathymetry data was originally archived as an ESRI grid with the following attributes:

Cell size = 2.0
Number of rows = 8860
Number of columns = 8870

Data type = floating point

Boundary
Xmin = 473360
Xmax = 491100
Ymin = 4249860
Ymax = 4267580

Statistics
Minimum value = -88.45
Maximum value = -2.19
Mean = -46.74
Standard deviation = 20.19

Coordinate system description
Projection  UTM
Zone  10
Datum  NAD83
Vertical Datum  NAVD88
Units  meter

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: none

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: Value

Entity_Type_Definition: Bathymetry depth value

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: VALUE

Attribute_Definition: Bathynetry depth values

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: -97.47

Range_Domain_Maximum: 2.19

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: meters

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 345 Middlefield Rd

City: Menlo Park

State_or_Province: CA

Postal_Code: 94025-3561

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (650) 329-4309

Distribution_Liability:

These databases, identified as bathymetry and shaded-relief maps of Offshore of Salt Point Map Area, California have been approved for release and publication by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Although these databases have been subjected to rigorous review and are substantially complete, the USGS reserves the right to revise the data pursuant to further analysis and review. Furthermore, it is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the United States Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use.
Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. The USGS or the U.S. Government shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof.
These data are not intended for navigational use.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: TIFF

Format_Version_Number: ArcMap (version 10.0, ESRI , 2011)

Format_Specification:

Raster data layer is registered TIFF image in the UTM Zone 10 coordinate system with datum NAD83.

Format_Information_Content:

The .zip file for the TIFF image includes the image (.tif), the world registration file (.tfw), and the text (.txt) and XML (.tif.xml) versions of the metadata for the Bathymetry data layer of Offshore Salt Point, California.

File_Decompression_Technique: WinZip

Transfer_Size: 15.5

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

<https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/OffshoreSaltPoint/data/Bathymetry_OffshoreSaltPoint.zip>

Network_Resource_Name: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/>

Access_Instructions: Data can be downloaded via the World Wide Web (WWW)

Fees: none

Technical_Prerequisites:

The downloadable data file has been compressed with the "zip" command and can be unzipped with Winzip (or other tool) on Windows systems. To utilize these data, the user must have software capable of uncompressing the WinZip file and importing and viewing an Esri ArcMap TIFF. Users should download the ArcGIS Project File, OffshoreSaltPointGIS.mxd.zip, a compressed (with the "zip" command) version of the ArcMap document (.mxd) that has all the data layers loaded in the table of contents for "Offshore Salt Point" and has all the data symbolized as on the data release map sheets. Download and save this ArcGIS project file, including all data layers, to the directory the user has created for this GIS.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20140630

Metadata_Review_Date: 20150514

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Peter Dartnell

Contact_Organization:

U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Contact_Position: Physical Scientist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 400 Natural Bridges Dr.

City: Santa Cruz

State_or_Province: CA

Postal_Code: 95060-5792

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (831) 460-7415

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (831) 427-4709

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pdartnell@usgs.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name:

Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata ("CSDGM version 2")

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: universal time