RESGPSPNTS_JD249.SHP: Navigation and Bathymetry Points of Ship Position During Continuous Resistivity Profile Data Collection in the Potomac River/Chesapeake Bay on Sept. 6, 2006 on USGS Cruise 06018

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: VeeAnn A. Cross
Publication_Date: 2010
Title:
RESGPSPNTS_JD249.SHP: Navigation and Bathymetry Points of Ship Position During Continuous Resistivity Profile Data Collection in the Potomac River/Chesapeake Bay on Sept. 6, 2006 on USGS Cruise 06018
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 2009-1151
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Online_Linkage:
<https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1151/data/navigation/resistivity/resgpspnts_jd249.zip>
Online_Linkage: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1151/html/catalog.html>
Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: VeeAnn A. Cross
Originator: David S. Foster
Originator: John F. Bratton
Publication_Date: 2010
Title:
Continuous Resistivity Profiling and Seismic-Reflection Data Collected in 2006 from the Potomac River Estuary, Virginia and Maryland
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 2009-1151
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Online_Linkage: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1151/>
Description:
Abstract:
In order to test hypotheses about groundwater flow under and into Chesapeake Bay, geophysical surveys were conducted by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists on Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River Estuary in September 2006. Chesapeake Bay resource managers are concerned about nutrients that are entering the estuary via submarine groundwater discharge, which are contributing to eutrophication. The USGS has performed many related studies in recent years to provide managers with information necessary to make informed decisions about this issue. The research carried out as part of the study described here was designed to help refine nutrient budgets for Chesapeake Bay by characterizing submarine groundwater flow and discharge of groundwater beneath part of the mainstem and a major tributary, the Potomac River Estuary.
Purpose:
The purpose of this point shapefile is to provide the ship's position and bathymetric values during the collection of continuous resistivity profile data.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 20060906
Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -76.454833
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -76.310367
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 38.295767
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 37.946450
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey
Theme_Keyword: USGS
Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Theme_Keyword: CMGP
Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC
Theme_Keyword: Field Activity Serial Number 06018
Theme_Keyword: navigation
Theme_Keyword: bathymetry
Theme_Keyword: point
Theme_Keyword: shapefile
Theme_Keyword: Continuous Resistivity Profiling
Theme_Keyword: CRP
Theme_Keyword: R/V Kerhin
Theme_Keyword: Lowrance GPS
Theme_Keyword: Info Bank ID K-1-06-CH
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: elevation
Theme_Keyword: inlandWaters
Theme_Keyword: location
Theme_Keyword: oceans
Theme_Keyword: oceans and estuaries
Theme_Keyword: oceans and coastal
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
Place_Keyword: North America
Place_Keyword: North Atlantic
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: Virginia
Place_Keyword: Potomac River Estuary
Place_Keyword: Chesapeake Bay
Place_Keyword: Dennis Point Marina
Place_Keyword: Solomons, Maryland
Place_Keyword: Maryland
Place_Keyword: Patuxent River
Access_Constraints: None.
Use_Constraints:
The public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey as the originator of the dataset.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: John F. Bratton
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2254
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jbratton@usgs.gov
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
<https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1151/data/navigation/resistivity/resgpspnts_jd249.gif>
Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
Thumbnail image showing the location of resistivity navigation points collected Sept. 6, 2006. The coastline is included for spatial reference.
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.6.1500

Data_Quality_Information:
Logical_Consistency_Report:
No duplicate points are present. The navigational fixes and depth values were checked for valid values. Invalid data points were deleted. No other checks were performed.
Completeness_Report:
There is a navigational fix and fathometer reading for every reading of resistivity data. No temperature data was recorded on this day.
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
The primary navigation system used was a Lowrance 480M with an LGC-2000 Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna. The antenna was located 7.9 meters forward of the anchor point for the resistivity streamer, and approximately 3 meters forward of the fathometer transducer. These offsets were not entered into the GPS system. Additionally, because of navigation and fathometers issues, periodically the ship's navigation system was used to supplement these data. The ship had a Differential GPS (DGPS) system with the antenna placed in the same location as the Lowrance antenna. The fathometer was located (hull-mounted) roughly directly below the antenna, so no horizontal offset. Because of the mixture of systems, the accuracy is on the order of 20 meters.
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
All the bathymetric values from this day were collected by the ship's fathometer. This fathometer was hull mounted approximately midship, relatively close to the navigation antenna. The values are assumed to be accurate to within 1 meter.
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Contribution:
The continuous resistivity profile (CRP) system used on this cruise was an AGI SuperSting marine system described at the website: www.agiusa.com/marinesystem.shtml. The particular system used for this acquisition was a 100-m streamer with an 11 electrode array with electrodes spaced 10 meters apart. The source electrodes are graphite, while the receiver electrodes are stainless steel. A dipole-dipole configuration was used for the data collection in which two fixed current electrodes are assigned with the measurement of voltage potential between electrode pairs in the remaining electrodes. Each line of data acquisition records several files. The two files necessary for processing are the *.stg and the *.gps file. The STG file contains the resistivity data, while the GPS file contains the navigation information. The navigation system used in concert with the CRP system is a Lowrance LMS-480M with an LGC-2000 GPS antenna and a 200 kHz fathometer transducer. The transducer also contains a temperature sensor which was not working on Julian Day 249. Lowrance indicates the speed of sound used by the system is 4800 feet/second. On the first day of data collection (Julian Day 249, Sept. 6, 2006) the Lowrance transducer was side-mounted mid-ship on the port side of the boat. The remainder of the cruise the transducer was side-mounted mid-ship of the starboard side of the boat. The CRP system images the subsurface electrical properties of an estuarine, riverine or lacustrine environment. Resistivity differences can be attributed to subsurface geology (conductive vs less conductive layers) and hydrogeologic conditions with fresh water exhibiting high resistivity and saline conditions showing low resistivity.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The data files were transferred from the acquisition computer via a USB thumb drive. The first step is to check the navigation recorded in the *.gps file for each line of acquisition. Although the navigation fixes themselves appear to be okay, the fathometer data is not. To verify this, I extracted the $GPRMC line from the CRP GPS files using an AWK script. (* refers to the line name, which for this day are l1f1, l2f1, l3f1, l4f1, l5f1 and l6f1)
awkpullgprmc:
BEGIN {
FS = ","
}
{
FS = ","
if ($1=="$GPRMC")
{
print $0
}
endif
}
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: *.gps
Process_Date: 2006
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: *.gprmc
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Used an AWK script to reformat the GPRMC navigation to a comma-delimited ANSI text navigation file suitable for loading in the GIS. (* refers to the line name, which for this day are l1f1, l2f1, l3f1, l4f1, l5f1 and l6f1). The text editor VI was used to add the necessary header line to each file.
awk_justgprmc:
BEGIN {
FS=","
}
{
FS= ","
ARGC = 2
if ($1=="$GPRMC") {
gpstime = $2
hr = substr($2,1,2)
min = substr($2,3,2)
sec = substr($2,5,2)
latdeg = substr($4,1,2)
latmin = substr($4,3,6)
londeg = substr($6,2,2)
lonmin = substr($6,4,6)
declat = latdeg + (latmin/60)
declon = (londeg + (lonmin/60)) * -1
date = $10
day = substr($10,1,2)
month = substr($10,3,2)
year = substr($10,5,2)
printf("%8.6f, %8.6f, %s:%s:%s, %s\n",declon, declat, hr, min, sec, date)
}
}
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: *.gprmc
Process_Date: 2006
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: *gprmc.txt
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Using ArcView 3.3 this comma-delimited ANSI text file was loaded as an event theme. This event theme was then saved as a shapefile using Theme - Convert to shapefile. (* refers to the line name, which for this day are l1f1, l2f1, l3f1, l4f1, l5f1 and l6f1)
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: *gprmc.txt
Process_Date: 2006
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: *.shp
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
An ANSI text file containing the ship's navigation and fathometer information was transferred from the ship's system using a thumb drive.
Process_Date: 2006
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: usgs090606.nav
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
This text file was reformatted using an AWK script into a comma-delimited ANSI text file suitable for loading in the GIS.
awknav:
{
shipdate = $1
gpstime = $2
latdeg = substr($5,1,2)
latdecmin = $6
declat = latdeg + (latdecmin/60)
londeg = substr($7,1,3)
londecmin = $8
declon = -1 * (londeg + (londecmin/60))
depmeters = $10
printf("%s, %s, %9.6f, %9.6f, %s\n",shipdate, gpstime, declat, declon, depmeters)
}
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: usgs090606.nav
Process_Date: 2006
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: shippnts_249.txt
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The ANSI text file was loaded into ArcView 3.3 as an event theme and then saved as a shapefile using Theme - convert to shapefile.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: shippnts_249.txt
Process_Date: 2006
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: shippnts_249.shp
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Within ArcView 3.3 I used the spatial join capabilities to join the ship navigation and fathometer information to each line of resistivity navigation. This is accomplished by opening both attribute tables in ArcView. Then make the source table active (the table that I want to join to the other table). In this case, that's the attribute table for shippnts_249.shp. Within this table, click the Shape field's name. Then make the other attribute table active (*.shp where * represents the line name such as l1f1). Select the Shape field's name. Then from the table menu, choose "Join". This essentially finds the closest positional point in shippnts_249.shp and joins it to the *.shp attribute table. (* refers to the line name, which for this day are l1f1, l2f1, l3f1, l4f1, l5f1 and l6f1)
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: *.shp
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: shippnts_249.shp
Process_Date: 2006
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The only information I need from this joined table is the bathymetry information. So using the table properties, I turn off (uncheck the visible option) everything but the depth values. Once this is done, I use File - Export to export the table to a delimited text file. (* refers to the line name, which for this day are l1f1, l2f1, l3f1, l4f1, l5f1 and l6f1)
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: *.shp
Process_Date: 2006
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: *_shipbathy.txt
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
I then ran an AWK script which would take the each line of the bathymetry information and convert it to the $SDDPT format that a GPS system would record. (* refers to the line name, which for this day are l1f1, l2f1, l3f1, l4f1, l5f1 and l6f1). The $SDDPT refers to the water depth relative to the transducer, in meters. The sentence is of the format "$SDDPT, DATA_METERS, OFFSET_METERS, MAXIMUM_METERS*hh<0D><0A> where the portion after the * is a checksum value. I manually defined everything except the actual depth values, since those are the only values I'll use.
awk_sddpt:
{
depthval = $1
printf("$SDDPT,%s,0.0*65\n",depthval)
}
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: *_shipbathy.txt
Process_Date: 2006
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: *.sddpt
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
For every line in the extracted GPRMC data, I now have a separate files with the same number of lines containing bathymetry information in the $SDDPT format. Using CYGWIN (a UNIX like environment that runs under Windows) I use the "paste" command to join the two files using a newline character as the delimiter between the two files. Essentially what this does is generate a file with a line of GPRMC data, then SDDPT and so for and so on. The syntax with the paste command I used for the resistivity navigation is: paste -d '\n' filename1 filename2 > output where filename1 is the GPRMC text file, filename2 is the bathymetry text file, and the output is the repaired GPS navigation file. (* refers to the line name, which for this day are l1f1, l2f1, l3f1, l4f1, l5f1 and l6f1)
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: *.gprmc
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: *.sddpt
Process_Date: 2006
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: *fix.gps
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
I then ran an AWK script on the resulting GPS files to generate a single comma-delimited text file with the information of interest. I then used VI to add the appropriated header line.
AWK script awkit:
BEGIN {
FS=","
}
{
FS= ","
ARGC = 2
if ($1=="$GPRMC") {
gpstime = $2
hr = substr($2,1,2)
min = substr($2,3,2)
sec = substr($2,5,2)
latdeg = substr($4,1,2)
latmin = substr($4,3,6)
londeg = substr($6,2,2)
lonmin = substr($6,4,6)
declat = latdeg + (latmin/60)
declon = (londeg + (lonmin/60)) * -1
date = $10
day = substr($10,1,2)
month = substr($10,3,2)
year = substr($10,5,2)
}
else if ($1=="$SDDPT") {
depth = $2
printf("%8.6f, %8.6f, %s:%s:%s, %s, %s, %s\n",declon, declat, hr, min, sec, date, depth, ARGV[2])
}
}

The running of the script was initiated with a simple executable shell script under CYGWIN (a Unix like environment that runs under Windows
"doawk":
files=`ls *.gps | cut -d. -f1`
for file in $files
do
awk -f awkit $file.gps $file >> resnav_jd249.txt
done
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: l1f1fix.gps
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: l2f1fix.gps
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: l3f1fix.gps
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: l4f1fix.gps
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: l5f1fix.gps
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: l6f1fix.gps
Process_Date: 2006
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: resnav_jd249.txt
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The comma-delimited text file was imported to ArcMap 9.2: Tools - Add XY Data. The X field is longitude; Y field is latitude, and the Coordinate System was defined as Geographic, NAD83. Because of the format of the "gpstime" field, the default for ArcMap is to import this as a date/time field. Because I wanted this field to remain a text field, I edited the schema.ini file in the folder with the text file to define each attributes definition. I also made sure the DATE field imported as a text attribute to preserve the leading zero. I then used the data export (right-mouse click on the event theme, Data - Export Data) to save the event theme as a shapefile.
schema.ini:
[resnav_jd249.txt]
Format=CSVDelimited
ColNameHeader=True
Col1=longitude Double
Col2=latitude Double
Col3=gpstime Text Width 8
Col4=gpsdate Text Width 10
Col5=depth_m float
Col6=linename Text Width 11
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: resnav_jd249.txt
Process_Date: 2009
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: resgpspnts_jd249.shp
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Using ArcMap 9.2 added the attributes "gps_src' and "bathy_src" so that I could differentiate the source of each navigation fix and bathymetry value. On this particular day, all the navigational fixes came from the Lowrance system, while the bathymetry values came from the ship's gps/fathometer system.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: resgpspnts_jd249.shp
Process_Date: 2009
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: resgpspnts_jd249.shp
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Entity point
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 6141

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: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222
Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Depth_System_Definition:
Depth_Datum_Name: Local surface
Depth_Resolution: 0.1
Depth_Distance_Units: meters
Depth_Encoding_Method: Explicit depth coordinate included with horizontal coordinates

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: resgpspnts_jd249
Entity_Type_Definition: ESRI point shapefile
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FID
Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Shape
Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: longitude
Attribute_Definition: Longitude coordinate of the point in decimal degrees, NAD83.
Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: -76.454833
Range_Domain_Maximum: -76.310367
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: latitude
Attribute_Definition: Latitude coordinate of the point in decimal degrees, NAD83.
Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 37.94645
Range_Domain_Maximum: 38.295767
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: gpstime
Attribute_Definition:
GPS time in the format HH:MM:SS. GPS time is +4 hours from local time during the survey.
Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Character set.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: gpsdate
Attribute_Definition:
The date recorded in the GPS navigation in the format DDMMYY. Because of the time offset from local time, this date could actually be different than the local acquisition date.
Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Character set.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: depth_m
Attribute_Definition:
Depth of the water below the fathometer in meters recorded by the ship's fathometer/navigation system.
Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Range_Domain:
Range_Domain_Minimum: 1.7
Range_Domain_Maximum: 21.200001
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: meters
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: linename
Attribute_Definition:
The alphanumeric name corresponding to the prefix of the GPS filename. This name reflects the name assigned to the line of data acquisition and incorporates modifiers to reflect modification of the GPS file.
Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Character set.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: gps_src
Attribute_Definition:
The system from which the navigation point was derived. On this day those values came from the Lowrance system.
Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Character set.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: bathy_src
Attribute_Definition:
The system from which the bathymetric value was acquired. On this day, all bathymetry came from the ship navigation/fathometer system.
Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Character set.

Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: John F. Bratton
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2254
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jbratton@usgs.gov
Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
Distribution_Liability:
Neither the U.S. government, the Department of the Interior, nor the USGS, nor any of their employees, contractors, or subcontractors, make any warranty, express or implied, nor assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, nor represent that its use would not infringe on privately owned rights. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Standard_Order_Process:
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: WinZip
Format_Version_Number: 9.0
Format_Information_Content:
This WinZip file contains the point shapefile as well as the associated metadata files.
Transfer_Size: 0.197 MB
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Online_Option:
Computer_Contact_Information:
Network_Address:
Network_Resource_Name:
<https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1151/data/navigation/resistivity/resgpspnts_jd249.zip>
Network_Resource_Name: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1151/html/catalog.html>
Offline_Option:
Offline_Media: DVD-ROM
Recording_Capacity:
Recording_Density: 4.75
Recording_Density_Units: GBytes
Recording_Format: UDF
Fees: None.
Technical_Prerequisites:
This WinZip file contains data available in ESRI point shapefile format. The user must have software capable of uncompressing the WinZip file and reading/displaying the shapefile.

Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20090526
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
Metadata_Extensions:
Online_Linkage: <http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html>
Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile

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