More information about the individual USGS surveys conducted as part of the northern Cape Cod Bay project can be found on the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Field Activity webpage:
06012: <http://quashnet.er.usgs.gov/data/2006/06012/> 07001: <http://quashnet.er.usgs.gov/data/2007/07001/> 07002: <http://quashnet.er.usgs.gov/data/2007/07002/> 07003: <http://quashnet.er.usgs.gov/data/2007/07003/> 08002: <http://quashnet.er.usgs.gov/data/2008/08002/>
U.S. Geological Survey, 2010, CCB_SeabossTrackline: Survey lines along which SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey within the Northern Cape Cod Bay survey area (ESRI shapefile, Geographic, WGS84).: Open-File Report 2010-1006, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.This is part of the following larger work.Online Links:
- <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1006/GIS/shapefile/CCB_SeabossTrackline.zip>
- <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1006/html/appendix1.html>
Andrews, Brian D. , Ackerman, Seth D. , Baldwin, Wayne E. , and Barnhardt, Walter A. , 2010, Geophysical and Sampling Data from the Inner Continental Shelf: Northern Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts.: Open-File Report 2010-1006, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.Online Links:
This is a Vector 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 0.000001. Longitudes are given to the nearest 0.000001. Latitude and longitude values are specified in Decimal degrees.
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.
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Coordinates defining the features.
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| Minimum: | 1.57 |
| Maximum: | 579.34 |
| Units: | meters |
| Resolution: | 0.01 |
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The purpose of this dataset is to record the trackline navigation along which bottom video was recorded and using the the large SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) during USGS survey 07003, conducted September 7-11, 2007 aboard the R/V Connecticut offshore Massachusetts in the Northern Cape Cod Bay survey area. This data set was collected to ground-truth (verify) the acoustic data sets that were acquired during USGS geophysical surveys 06012 (2006), 07001 (2007), 07002 (2007), and 08002 (2008). High-resolution digital photographs of the seafloor were also taken during the video drift (see shapefile CCB_BottomPhotos.shp).
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cat gpgga_out* > 07003_allnav_gpgga_formatted.csv
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Data sources produced in this process:
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Data sources produced in this process:
Person who carried out this activity:
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Data sources produced in this process:
Person who carried out this activity:
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Data sources produced in this process:
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Data sources produced in this process:
Blackwood, D., and Parolski, K., 2001, Seabed observation and sampling system: Sea Technology v. 42, no. 2, p. 39-43.
Barnhardt, Walter A. , Andrews, Brian D. , and Butman, Bradford, 2006, High-Resolution Mapping of the Inner Continental Shelf: Nahant to Gloucester, Massachusetts: Open-File Report 2005-1293, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA.Online Links:
Ackerman, Seth D. , Butman, Bradford, Barnhardt, Walter A. , Danforth, William W. , and Crocker, James M. , 2006, High-Resolution Geologic Mapping of the Inner Continental Shelf: Boston Harbor and Approaches, Massachusetts: Open-File Report 2006-1008, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA.Online Links:
Barnhardt, Walter A. , Andrews, Brian D. , Ackerman, Seth D. , Baldwin, Wayne E. , and Hein, Christopher J. , 2009, High-Resolution Geological Mapping of the Inner Continental Shelf: Cape Ann to Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts: Open-File Report 2007-1373, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, MA.Online Links:
Barnhardt, Walter A. , Ackerman, Seth D. , Andrews, Brian D. , and Baldwin, Wayne E. , 2010, Geophysical and Sampling Data from the Inner Continental Shelf: Duxbury to Hull, Massachusetts: Open-File Report 2009-1072, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.Online Links:
Navigation for survey 07003 used differential Global Positioning System (GPS). The recorded position of each node along the SEABOSS trackline is actually the position of the GPS antenna on the survey vessel, not the SEABOSS sampler. The SEABOSS was deployed approximately 5 meters astern of the GPS antenna off the ship's J-frame on the starboard side. No layback or offset was applied to the recorded position. In addition to the 5 meter offset the SEABOSS may drift away from the survey vessel when deployed to the seafloor. Based on the various sources for horizontal offsets, a conservative estimate the horizontal accuracy of the SEABOSS trackline is 20-30 meters.
A total of 184 sampling sites were occupied during survey 07003 covering both the Duxbury to Hull and Cape Cod Bay survey areas. Only the 109 sampling sites within Cape Cod Bay survey area are included in this spatial dataset. The SEABOSS video tracklines that are not included in this report are from sites north of Brant Rock, Massachusetts and have been published in a previous data release (Barnhardt and other 2010) focused on the Duxbury to Hull survey area. The length of the trackline represents the distance along the drift that the bottom was in view on the monitor aboard the ship. Video may not have been recorded at each station or for the full duration of the SEABOSS drift. The tracklines do not represent video of the water column during deployment or retrieval. Stations represented by SEABOSS tracklines 41-60 and 71-76 were rapid deployment sites where no video was collected. Only bottom photographs and sediment samples (when possible) were collected at these sites.
Trackline data from all SEABOSS transects in the Northern Cape Cod Bay survey area are included in this shapefile. Gaps in sequential SEABOSS station numbers may exist.
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| Data format: | location of SEABOSS tracklines in format SHP (version ArcGIS 9.3) ESRI polyline shapefile Size: 0.27 Mb |
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