U.S. Geological Survey, 2007, APBAYBATH25M - 25m Bathymetric ArcRaster Grid of Apalachicola Bay and St. George Sound, Florida: Open-File Report 2006-1381, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.This is part of the following larger work.Online Links:
Twichell, David C. , Andrews, Brian D. , Edmiston, H. Lee , and Stevenson, William R. , 2007, Geophysical Mapping of oyster habitats in a shallow estuary; Apalachicola Bay, Florida: Open-File Report 2006-1381, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.Online Links:
This is a Raster data set. It contains the following raster data types:
Planar coordinates are encoded using row and column
Abscissae (x-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 25.000000
Ordinates (y-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 25.000000
Planar coordinates are specified in meters
The horizontal datum used is D_WGS_1984.
The ellipsoid used is WGS_1984.
The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378137.000000.
The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/298.257224.
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The purpose of this dataset is to produce a bathymetric grid of the area within the survey boundary in St. George Sound and Apalachicola Bay.
The purpose of these data is to represent the swath bathymetry in a courser grid cell resolution but cover the gaps between survey lines. In shallow areas less than 2m deep the digitized seafloor from the ASV seismic data was used to provide single beam bathymetry.
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DGPS is assumed to be accurate within 1-2 meters. Standard GPS is assumed accurate within 5-10 meters. 99% of the positional data is DGPS. Unless noted, all GPS/DGPS data is referenced to WGS84 (NAD83). The configuration of the fathometer is as follows: the transducer on the RAFAEL was mounted on a pole at the vessel's bow. Offset between the bow mount and GPS antenna is measured. On ASV IRIS, the subbottom profiler used to measure water depth was mounted directly below the GPS antenna. No measurements were taken of ship's pitch, yaw, heave, or change in draft due to water and fuel usage. Motion of the fathometer is not measured. Horizontal accuracy of the fathometer is assumed to be within +/- 3 meters.
Ship motion was recorded with a TSS DMS 2-05 Attitude Sensor, mounted on a head above the interferometric Submetrix 2000 Series transducers. Navigation was recorded using Real Time Kinematic Differential Global Positioning System (RTK-DGPS). The interferometric sonar is an angle-measuring system; depth accuracy decreases with increasing horizontal range. The combined angular accuracy of the Submetrix 2000 Series and the TSS DMS 2-05 attitude sensor is documented as 0.1 degrees. Assuming a constant angular accuracy, and using the International Hydrographic Standard (IHO) of a required 0.3 meter accuracy in < 30 meter water depth, all data collected within the survey fall within the IHO accuracy standards. However, vertical accuracy is also directly affected by the accuracy of both the navigation system and tidal measurements. RTK DGPS vertical accuracy is assumed to be 0.2 meters. Tidal elevations were derived from RTK -DGPS heights sent from a survey-specific base station located on St. George Island.
The base station occupied a temporary monument. The x & y positions were calculated for that location using a 3 day average of 12 hour data sets using the Online Positioning User Service (OPUS, National Geodetic Survey) solution. Tidal elevations were calculated from NOAA Tidal Station #8728690 using the same OPUS solution and then applied to the corrected elevations for the base station at St. George Island. Antenna heights were referenced to Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) for easier comparison of NOAA nautical charts.
Soundings were gridded in OMG SwathEd software using the entire swath width across track to achieve maximum coverage at the scale of the entire Apalachicola Bay/St. George Sound survey area. Although the soundings were manually edited, small data spikes may exist at outer edges of some swaths.
Pockmark features that appear in the dredge channel of the intracoastal waterway fairways are artifacts of the processing methods used to generate a continuous surface from swath bathymetry collected on lines spaced 100m apart.
These data have not been quantitatively compared to previous hydrographic data, although they generally agree with qualitative comparison of published NOAA charts.
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| Data format: | ArcRaster grid containing swath bathymetric data collected in the Apalachicola Bay and St. George Sound Florida in format ESRI Grid (version ArcGIS 9.2) ESRI Grid File Size: 4.994 |
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