Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Publication_Date: 2012 Title: PNG formatted images of EdgeTech SB-424 seismic-reflection profiles collected by the U.S. Geological Survey -Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center offshore of the Elizabeth Islands, MA, 2010. Edition: 1.0 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: remote-sensing image Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2011-1184 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/2011/1184/GIS_catalog/seisimage/2010-003-FA_seisimage.zip Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Elizabeth A. Pendleton Originator: David C. Twichell Originator: David S. Foster Originator: Charles R. Worley Originator: Barry J. Irwin Originator: William W. Danforth Publication_Date: 2012 Title: High-Resolution Geophysical Data From the Sea Floor Surrounding the Western Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts Edition: 1.0 Series_Information: Series_Name: Open-File Report Issue_Identification: 2011-1184 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/2011/1184/ Description: Abstract: These data were collected under a cooperative agreement between the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC). Initiated in 2003, the primary objective of this program is to develop regional geologic framework information for the management of coastal and marine resources. Accurate data and maps of seafloor geology are important first steps toward protecting fish habitat, delineating marine resources, and assessing environmental changes due to natural or human impacts. The project is focused on the inshore waters of coastal Massachusetts, primarily in water depths of 2-30 meters. Data collected for the mapping cooperative have been released in a series of USGS Open-File Reports (). The data collected in this study area located around the western extent of the Elizabeth Islands includes high resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, seismic-reflection, and navigation data. These data were collected during a nearshore cruise in September 2010 onboard the R/V Rafael using the following equipment: an SEA Ltd SwathPlus interferometric sonar (234 kHz), Klein 3000 dual frequency sidescan sonar, an Edgetech 424 chirp subbottom profiling system, and 4 GPS antennae. More information about the cruise conducted as part of the project: Geologic Mapping of the Seafloor Offshore of Massachusetts can be found on the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Field Activity webpage: Purpose: PNG images of each seismic profile were generated in order to incorporate images of the seismic data into Geographic Information System (GIS) projects and data archives utilizing HTML. These PNG images represent approximately 253 km of chirp seismic data collected with the EdgeTech 424 in Sept. 2010. This format is universal and yields an easily browseable pictorial view of the seismic profiles. Each profile image is hotlinked to its corresponding trackline navigation contained within a polyline shapefile ('2010-003-FA_Chirp424_tracklines.shp'), and even 500 shot-point locations are available in a point shapefile ('2010-003-FA_Chirp424_500sht.shp). All of these data are available in an ESRI ArcMap project, as well as separate .zip archives on this digital data DVD archive (http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1184/GIS_catalog/). Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20100910 Ending_Date: 20100916 Currentness_Reference: Data were not collected on 20100915 due to weather conditions. Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.992374 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.849060 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.460852 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.388525 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey Theme_Keyword: USGS Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program Theme_Keyword: CMGP Theme_Keyword: PNG Theme_Keyword: seismic-reflection Theme_Keyword: SEGY Theme_Keyword: profiles Theme_Keyword: seismic Theme_Keyword: subbottom Theme_Keyword: image Theme_Keyword: chirp Theme_Keyword: EdgeTech Theme_Keyword: SB-424 Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC field activity serial number 2010-003-FA Theme_Keyword: R/V Rafael Theme_Keyword: Edgetech SB-424 Theme_Keyword: Info Bank ID R-3-10-BZ Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation Theme_Keyword: oceans Theme_Keyword: oceans and coastal Theme_Keyword: oceans and estuaries Theme_Keyword: imageryBaseMapsEarthCover Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Place_Keyword: North America Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean Place_Keyword: Massachusetts Place_Keyword: Cuttyhunk Island Place_Keyword: Nashawena Island Place_Keyword: Elizabeth Islands Place_Keyword: Buzzards Bay Place_Keyword: Vineyard Sound Place_Keyword: Quicks Hole Place_Keyword: Cuttyhunk Harbor Place_Keyword: Sow and Pigs Reef Place_Keyword: Penikese Island Place_Keyword: Gull Island Place_Keyword: United States Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: 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 C. Twichell Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Oceanographer Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2266 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dtwichell@usgs.gov Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1184/GIS_catalog/seisimage/seisimage.png Browse_Graphic_File_Description: PNG image of SB-424 chirp seismic reflection profile Browse_Graphic_File_Type: PNG Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1; ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 Service Pack 1; Build 1850 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: John Stockwell Publication_Date: 2008 Title: CWP/SU: Seismic Uni*x 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/index.html Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Paul Henkart Publication_Date: 2007 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 Cross_Reference: Citation_Information: Originator: Michael W. Norris Originator: Alan K. Faichney Publication_Date: 2002 Title: SEGY Rev.1 Data Exchange Format1 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Tulsa, OK Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists Online_Linkage: http://www.seg.org/documents/10161/77915/seg_y_rev1.pdf Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: Processed seismic data were converted to portable network graphic (PNG) format for ease of seismic trace display. Quality control was conducted during processing. File naming is generally lxfy.png. Where x is the survey line number and y is the file number along a given survey line. There are a few exceptions that resulted from autofile changing in SonarWiz.MAP +SBP. A few lines are named lxfy_.png, and a few others are lxfy_00z.png; where x and y are the same as above and z is the autofile change number. Completeness_Report: l8f3 and l26f1.001 had fewer than 50 shot points, so these lines were not included. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: The SB-424 was towed from a starboard-side davit with 2-m of cable out on the R/V Rafael. The navigation for these data were acquired with an Communications Systems International (CSI), Inc. LGBX Pro Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) receiver and an antenna mounted on the cabin of the R/V Rafael. All DGPS data are referenced to WGS84. The SonarWiz.MAP +SBP acquisition software logged the navigation coordinates (in arcseconds) to individual trace headers, but towfish layback and horizontal distance between the CSI antenna and the towfish was not accounted for. Based on horizontal offsets between the towfish and GPS receiver, and towfish motion behind the vessel, the resulting horizontal accuracy is assumed to be +/- 25 m. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Geological Survey Type_of_Source_Media: disc Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 20100910 Ending_Date: 20100916 Source_Currentness_Reference: Data were not collected on 20100915 due to weather conditions. Source_Contribution: Approximately 253 km of high-resolution chirp seismic-reflection profiles were collected using an EdgeTech 3100 portable sub-bottom system and SB-424 towfish (4-24 kHz) on the R/V Rafael of Woods Hole, MA. SonarWiz.MAP +SBP (version 4) acquisition software was used to control the Geo-Star topside unit and digitally log trace data in the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Y (SEG-Y), revision 1, standard format (Norris and Faichney, 2002). The SB-424 towfish was towed astern of the starboard side of the vessel. Navigation coordinates were obtained from a DGPS antenna mounted 3-m above the waterline on the interferometric sonar pole and logged to the SEG-Y trace headers. Data were acquired using a 4.0 to 24.0 kHz frequency sweep, a 10 millisecond pulse length, a 0.1667 second shot rate, a 23 microsecond sample interval, and a 130 millisecond record length. A total of 253 km of seismic data were collected. Process_Step: Process_Description: An executable C-shell script called on SIOSEIS (version 10.2.25) to: 1) read the raw SEG-Y data so that shot number begins at one and increments by one for each SEG-Y file; 2) apply a time varying gain: a(i) = a(i) * (t*1000.)**alpha where a(i) is the trace and t is the time of the trace sample in seconds (alpha was 1.5).; 3) apply Automatic Gain Control (AGC) to every trace. AGC is a type of amplitude normalization (modification) that results in the amplitudes being more uniform, especially when the window length decreases. AGC starts by finding the first non-zero sample and then calculates the average absolute value of the window. Successive windows are calculated by shifting the window down one sample. Each average absolute value is then turned into a multiplier by dividing the average by an output level. A window length of 10 ms was used and 65 percent of the computed multiplier was applied.; and, 4) write the gained traces to new SEG-Y files. Process_Date: 20101030 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: 384 Woods Hole Rd City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2271 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dfoster@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: A Seismic Unix (version 4.1) script was used to read the gained SEG-Y files and plot the data as 8-bit gray scale Postscript files using the Seismic Unix 'psimage' algorithm. All images were created with a horizontal scale of 100 traces per inch. Images were plotted within a constant 14-inch vertical window of 60 milliseconds (Two-Way Travel Time) duration, yielding a vertical resolution of about 5 milliseconds per inch. The Postscript images were then converted with ImageMagick to PNG format for visualization in an image viewer. Process_Date: 201010 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: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700x2271 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dfoster@usgs.gov Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Raster Raster_Object_Information: Raster_Object_Type: pixel Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Elizabeth Pendleton Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700x2259 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ependleton@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: 14.5 Format_Information_Content: WinZip files contains compressed images of processed seismic-reflection profiles as well as associated metadata. File_Decompression_Technique: Use WinZip or pkUnzip Transfer_Size: 316 MB Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1184/GIS_catalog/seisimage/2010-003-FA_seisimage.zip Network_Resource_Name: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1184/html/GIS_catalog.html Access_Instructions: Data can be downloaded via the World Wide Web (WWW) Offline_Option: Offline_Media: DVD-ROM Recording_Capacity: Recording_Density: 4.75 Recording_Density_Units: Gbytes Recording_Format: UDF Fees: none Custom_Order_Process: Digital copies of these chirp seismic data may also be obtained in the SEG-Y Rev. 1 standard format upon request. The data would be packaged on DVD, and contain the chirp-processed, envelope traces. Technical_Prerequisites: These data can be viewed with any PNG image viewing software. Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 201010 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Elizabeth Pendleton Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Geologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd. City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700x2259 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ependleton@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_Access_Constraints: None Metadata_Use_Constraints: None Metadata_Extensions: Online_Linkage: http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile