Additional information about the field activities from which this data set was derived are available online at
Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Although this Federal Geographic Data Committee-compliant metadata file is intended to document the data set in nonproprietary form, as well as in ArcInfo format, this metadata file may include some ArcInfo-specific terminology.
Guy R. Cochrane (ed.), (comp.), Russ Vetter , (comp.), John Butler , (comp.), John Wagner , (comp.), Cynthia Taylor , and (comp.), Nicole Nasby , 2002, Coverage SVANOBS -- assorted observations of benthic habitats from rov and scuba dives.: USGS Open-File Report USGS OFR 03-85, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA.This is part of the following larger work.Online Links:
Cochrane, Guy R. , Nasby, Nicole M. , Reid, Jane A. , Waltenberger, Ben, and Lee, Kristen M. , 2003, Nearshore Benthic Habitat GIS for the Channel Islands National Mairne Santuary and Southern California State Fisheries Reserves, Volume 1.
This is a Point data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):
Horizontal positions are specified in geographic coordinates, that is, latitude and longitude. Latitudes are given to the nearest 0.0000106384277. Longitudes are given to the nearest 0.0000106384277. Latitude and longitude values are specified in Decimal Degrees.
The horizontal datum used is North American Datum of 1983.
The ellipsoid used is GRS1980.
The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378206.4.
The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/294.98.
SVANOBS.PAT: COLUMN ITEM NAME WIDTH OUTPUT TYPE N.DEC ALTERNATE NAME 1 AREA 4 12 F 3 5 PERIMETER 4 12 F 3 9 SVANOBS# 4 5 B - 13 SVANOBS-ID 4 5 B - 25 BOTTOM_ID 1 4 C -BOTTOM_ID is a single character, h for hard bottom, m for mixed hard and soft bottom, or s for soft sediment bottom.
A compilation of scuba and rov dive observations of benthic habitat. Divers include Russ Vetter, Cynthia Taylor, and other NOAA employed divers. ROV operated by John Butler, John Wagner, and other NOAA technicians. Some of the dives made on USGS field activity S-1-01-SC
Guy R. Cochrane
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Visual observations of variable unknown accuracy
Highly variable on the order of 10 meters.
Observations made without uniform protocol.
Point features present.
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c/o Guy R. Cochrane
Geophysicist
USGS, MailStop 999, 345 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3561
USA
(650) 329-5076 (voice)
(650) 329-5190 (FAX)
gcochrane@usgs.gov
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United States Geological Survey (USGS)
c/o Guy R. Cochrane
Geophysicist
USGS, MailStop 999, 345 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3561
USA
(650) 329-5076 (voice)
(650) 329-5190 (FAX)
gcochrane@usgs.gov