Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: John F. Bratton Originator: David S. Foster Originator: VeeAnn A. Cross Publication_Date: 2010 Title: Seismic-Reflection Profile Data in JPEG Image Format Collected in the Potomac River/Chesapeake Bay from Sept. 6, 2006 to Sept. 8, 2006 on USGS Cruise 06018 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: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1151/data/seismics/seismic_jpegs.zip Online_Linkage: http://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: http://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 dataset is to provide the seismic-reflection profile data in JPEG image format, which provides information about the sub-surface geology in the survey area. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20060906 Ending_Date: 20060908 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -76.856667 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -76.310249 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 38.295665 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 37.946077 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: Info Bank ID K-1-06-CH Theme_Keyword: R/V Kerhin Theme_Keyword: seismic-reflection profile Theme_Keyword: JPEG image Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: oceans Theme_Keyword: inlandWaters Theme_Keyword: oceans and estuaries Theme_Keyword: oceans and coastal Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation 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: David S. Foster Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: 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 x2271 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dfoster@usgs.gov Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.6.1500 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Michael W. Norris Originator: Alan K. Faichney Publication_Date: 2002 Title: SEG Y rev1 Data Exchange Format Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Tulsa, OK Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists Online_Linkage: http://www.seg.org/SEGportalWEBproject/prod/SEG-Publications/Pub-Technical-Standards/Documents/seg_y_rev1.pdf Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: John W. Stockwell, Jr. Originator: Jack K. Cohen Publication_Date: 2008 Title: The New SU User's Manual (versino 4.0) Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Golden, CO Publisher: Center for Wave Phenomena - Colorado School of Mines Online_Linkage: http://www.cwp.mines.edu/cwpcodes/ Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Paul Henkart Publication_Date: 2006 Title: SIOSEIS Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Publication_Information: Publication_Place: LaJolla, CA Publisher: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California - San Diego Online_Linkage: http://sioseis.ucsd.edu/index.html Data_Quality_Information: Completeness_Report: A JPEG format image is available for every seismic-reflection profile line collected on this cruise. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: A differential global positioning system (DGPS) was used for the seismic-reflection data. This system was an Ashtech DGPS2 with the navigation being recorded by HYPACK navigation software. The offset from the seismic transducer to the DGPS antenna was 2 meters. This offset was not entered into the software. Vertical_Positional_Accuracy: Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: Although bathymetry was not recorded directly, bathymetry can be derived by tracing the seafloor reflector in the seismic-reflection profiles. The seismic transducers were mounted on an over the side mount on the port side of the ship. The transducer draft was 0.7 m below the water surface. The draft offset was not included in the data acquisition. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Contribution: The seismic acquisition system used on this cruise was a Knudsen Engineering Limited (KEL) 1600 USB system. The system has up to 1.2 kW power and is tuned to work with two Massa 3.5 kHz transducers. The transducers were mounted on an over-the-side mount on the port side of the ship. The transducer draft was 0.7 m below the water surface. This draft offset was not included in the data acquisition. The seismic data acquisition software was SounderSuite-USB Beta. This system failed to acquire navigation data from the DGPS NEMA string on the first two days (Julian day 149 and 150). The software was also not able to record data in SEG-Y standard format. KEL KEB format files were logged to disk. In addition, KEA ASCII files with shot (ping) numbers and times were saved to disk. Shot point navigation was also absent in the KEA files on Julian days 149 and 150. On Julian day 151 a patched version of SounderSuite was received and installed. This version recorded navigation in the KEB and KEA files. SEG-Y recording was still not an option. A time server was used to synchronize the DGPS time on the Knudsen and HYPACK navigation systems. This was important as KEL SounderSuite records system time. Data were acquired at a 20 micro-second sample interval, 2048 samples for a 40 ms record length. Fire-rate was 0.20 seconds (or 5 shots per second). The KEL recording software was set up to automatically switch files at shot 20,000. Line 5 switched from file 0005_2006_249_2014_002.keb after shot 13509 to a new file (0005_2006_249_2014_003.keb) while changing display parameters, due to a bug in the acquisition software. Process_Step: Process_Description: KEB files were converted to match-filtered standard SEG-Y using KEL's PostSurvey version 1.56 software. Process_Date: 2006 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: David S. Foster Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: 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 x2271 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dfoster@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: All KEB, KEA, and SEG-Y files were transferred to an external hard drive and transferred to a Mac OSX PowerBook for further processing. KEL match-filtered SEG-Y files were converted to the analytic form and then converted to instantaneous amplitude (envelope) SEG-Y using SIOSEIS 2006 seismic processing software. All SEG-Y output files were named the same as the original SEG-Y files. Process_Date: 2006 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: David S. Foster Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: 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 x2271 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dfoster@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The envelope processed Chirp SEG-Y files were read and converted to SeismicUnix (SU) format trace data. These SU files were read and plotted using SU. An automatic gain control (AGC) was applied to the data using a 7.5 ms window. These SU plots were saved in JPEG format. Process_Date: 2006 Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: David S. Foster Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: 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 x2271 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dfoster@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The portion of line 5 that was split into two parts was renamed to coincide with the shot point navigation and tracklines shapefiles. This was necessary so that the order of the files reflects the direction of ship travel. Originally, based on the order of ship travel, the parts were part 2, part 1, part 4. Simply renaming part 1 to part 3 put the files in the proper order. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: 0005_2006_249_2014_001.jpg Process_Date: 2009 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: 0005_2006_249_2014_003.jpg 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 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: The WinZip file contains all the JPEG format images of the seismic-reflection profiles, as well as the associated metadata. Transfer_Size: 45.8 MB Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1151/data/seismics/seismic_jpegs.zip Network_Resource_Name: http://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: The user must have software capable of uncompressing the WinZip file. These files can then be viewed with any JPEG image viewing software. Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20090626 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