BBVS_KMZ_BottomPhotos_wBio.kmz and BBVS_KMZ_BottomPhotos_wBio_AttachedFauna.kmz: Google Earth KMZ files showing the location of bottom photographs with biological interpretations collected by the U.S. Geological Survey offshore of Massachusetts in Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound in September 2010 on the RV Connecticut.

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
Publication_Date: 2014
Title:
BBVS_KMZ_BottomPhotos_wBio.kmz and BBVS_KMZ_BottomPhotos_wBio_AttachedFauna.kmz: Google Earth KMZ files showing the location of bottom photographs with biological interpretations collected by the U.S. Geological Survey offshore of Massachusetts in Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound in September 2010 on the RV Connecticut.
Edition: 1.0
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 2014-1221
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place:
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Online_Linkage:
<https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1221/GIS/kmz/BBVS_KMZ_BottomPhotos_wBio.kmz>
Online_Linkage:
<https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1221/GIS/kmz/BBVS_KMZ_BottomPhotos_wBio_AttachedFauna.kmz>
Online_Linkage: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1221/html/appendix1.html>
Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Seth D. Ackerman
Originator: Adrienne L. Pappal
Originator: Emily C. Huntley
Originator: Dann S. Blackwood
Originator: William C. Schwab
Publication_Date: 2014
Title:
Geological Sampling Data and Benthic Biota Classification: Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts
Edition: 1.0
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 2014-1221
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Online_Linkage: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1221/>
Description:
Abstract:
These data were collected under a cooperative agreement with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program. The primary objective of this program, initiated in 2003, is to develop regional geologic framework information for the management of coastal and marine resources. Accurate data and maps of sea-floor geology are important first steps toward protecting fish habitat, delineating marine resources, and assessing environmental changes due to natural or human effects. The project is focused on the inshore waters (5-30 meters deep) of Massachusetts. Data collected for the mapping cooperative have been released in a series of USGS Open-File Reports (<http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_mass/html/current_map.html>). This spatial dataset is from the study area located in Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound Massachusetts, and consists of ground-validation data which include the spatial extent of sea-floor sediment sample analyses, the location of sea-floor bottom photographs, and the tracklines along which sea-floor video was collected. These ground-validation (or ground-truth) data accompany a suite of high-resolution geophysical data, including swath bathymetry, sidescan-sonar backscatter intensity, and seismic-reflection data that were released in USGS Open File Reports 2012-1002 and 2012-1006. The sea-floor sampling data were collected during USGS survey 2010-005-FA in 2010 and cover more than 750 square kilometers of the inner continental shelf where the geophysical data were collected in 2009 and 2010.
Purpose:
This data set includes the locations and biological interpretation of bottom photographs acquired with the large SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS, SEABOSS Mark II configuration) during USGS survey 2010-005-FA, conducted September 9-14, 2010 aboard the R/V Connecticut offshore Massachusetts in Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound. This data set was collected to ground-truth (verify) the acoustic data sets that were acquired during NOAA hydrographic survey H11319 (2004) and USGS geophysical surveys 09002 (2009) and 10004 (2010). Bottom video, which may provide a better representation of the general seabed enviroment over a larger area, were also taken at each station occupied by the SEABOSS (see shapefile BBVS_SeabossTrackline.shp). Physical sediment samples, which also may provide more information about the seabed, were also collected at many stations and analyzed in the sediment laboratory at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Center (see shapefile BBVS_SedimentSamples.shp).
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20100909
Ending_Date: 20100914
Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -71.096428
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.457338
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.649575
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.267625
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: R/V Connecticut
Theme_Keyword: Esri point shapefile
Theme_Keyword: ground-truth
Theme_Keyword: bottom photographs
Theme_Keyword: seabed photographs
Theme_Keyword: photos
Theme_Keyword: stations
Theme_Keyword: seafloor
Theme_Keyword: sea floor
Theme_Keyword: marine geology
Theme_Keyword: sediments
Theme_Keyword: biology
Theme_Keyword: biological classification
Theme_Keyword: biota classification
Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard
Theme_Keyword: CMECS
Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC field activity serial number 2010-005-FA
Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC field activity serial number 10005
Theme_Keyword: Van Veen grab sampler
Theme_Keyword: SEABOSS sampler
Theme_Keyword: Open-File Report 2014-1221
Theme_Keyword: OFR 2014-1221
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: oceans and estuaries
Theme_Keyword: oceans and coastal
Theme_Keyword: environment
Theme_Keyword: location
Theme_Keyword: oceans
Theme_Keyword: biota
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
Place_Keyword: North America
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean
Place_Keyword: Massachusetts
Place_Keyword: Buzzards Bay
Place_Keyword: Vineyard Sound
Place_Keyword: Martha's Vineyard
Place_Keyword: New Bedford
Place_Keyword: Woods Hole
Place_Keyword: Cape Cod
Place_Keyword: Falmouth
Place_Keyword: West Falmouth
Place_Keyword: Cleveland Ledge
Place_Keyword: Elizabeth Islands
Stratum:
Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
Stratum_Keyword: Seafloor
Stratum_Keyword: Sea floor
Stratum_Keyword: Seabed
Temporal:
Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
Temporal_Keyword: 2010
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 source of this information.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Seth Ackerman
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 x2315
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sackerman@usgs.gov
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name:
<https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1221/GIS/browse_jpg/big/BBVS_KMZ_BottomPhotos_wBio.jpg>
Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Thumbnail image of bottom photo locations in Google Earth
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.1850
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Seth D. Ackerman
Originator: Adrienne L. Pappal
Originator: Emily C. Huntley
Originator: Dann Blackwood
Originator: William C. Schwab
Publication_Date: 2014
Title:
Geological Sampling Data and Benthic Biota Classification: Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts
Edition: 1.0
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 2014-1221
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Reston, Virginia
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Online_Linkage: <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1221/>
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
See "Attribute Accuracy Report" in the metadata for the shapefile BBVS_BottomPhotos_wBio.shp" in USGS Open File Report 2014-1221 at <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1221/html/appendix1.html>
Logical_Consistency_Report:
Gaps in sequential photo numbers may exist. If camera was triggered accidentally on deck or picture did not come out, it was deleted.
Completeness_Report:
See "Completeness report" in the metadata for the shapefile BBVS_BottomPhotos_wBio.shp" in USGS Open File Report 2014-1221 at <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1221/html/appendix1.html>.

Records with "no data" (-9999) for the 'BIO_SET' field were removed and are not included in this KMZ file. The additional KMZ file 'BBVS_KMZ_BottomPhotos_wBio_AttachedFauna.kmz' contains only records where the 'BIO_SUBCL' is "Attached Fauna" and is a subset of the larger KMZ file 'BBVS_KMZ_BottomPhotos_wBio.kmz'. Many of attributes from the original shapefile have been carried over to the KMZ files but were reformatted to better fit the style for viewing the KMZ file in Google Earth.

Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
See "Horizontal Accuracy report" in the metadata for the shapefile BBVS_BottomPhotos_wBio.shp" in USGS Open File Report 2014-1221 at <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1221/html/appendix1.html>.
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
See "Vertical Accuracy report" in the metadata for the shapefile BBVS_BottomPhotos_wBio.shp" in USGS Open File Report 2014-1221 at <https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1221/html/appendix1.html>.
Lineage:
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
In ArcMap (version 10.1) the shapefile BBVS_BottomPhotos_wBio.shp from USGS Open File Report 2014-1221 was subsampled using a definition query (BIO_SET <> "-9999") to remove the records where there was no CMECS classification done. A KMZ file was created in ArcMap using the "Layer to KML" tool.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: BBVS_BottomPhotos_wBio.shp
Process_Date: 201312
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: BBVS_KMZ_BottomPhotos_wBio.kmz
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Emily Chambliss Huntley
Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
Contact_Position: Marine GIS/Mapping Specialist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 800
City: Boston
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02114-2138
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 617-626-1241
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 617-626-1240
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: emily.huntley@state.ma.us
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
In ArcMap (version 10.1) a second definition query was done on the shapefile BBVS_BottomPhotos_wBio.shp to select only the records where the BioSubClass is "Attached Fauna" (BIO_SUBCL = "Attached Fauna"). A KMZ file of this subset was created in ArcMap using the "Layer to KML" tool.
Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: BBVS_BottomPhotos_wBio.shp
Process_Date: 201312
Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: BBVS_KMZ_BottomPhotos_wBio_AttachedFauna.kmz
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Emily Chambliss Huntley
Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
Contact_Position: Marine GIS/Mapping Specialist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 800
City: Boston
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02114-2138
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 617-626-1241
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 617-626-1240
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: emily.huntley@state.ma.us
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Using a text editor, the attributes that were carried over from the original shapefile were reformatted to a style that better fits how the KMZ will be viewed in Google Earth.
Process_Date: 201312
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Emily Chambliss Huntley
Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
Contact_Position: Marine GIS/Mapping Specialist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 800
City: Boston
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02114-2138
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 617-626-1241
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 617-626-1240
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: emily.huntley@state.ma.us
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
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: D_WGS_1984
Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257224
Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Depth_System_Definition:
Depth_Datum_Name: mean lower low water
Depth_Resolution: 0.1 meters
Depth_Distance_Units: meters
Depth_Encoding_Method: Implicit coordinate
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
Definations from from the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard documentation. The classification area/unit is the field of view (the footprint) of the photograph which is approximately 0.5 to 1.25 meters from left to right, depending on the altitude of the camera when the photograph was taken.
Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Seth Ackerman
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 x2315
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sackerman@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: KMZ
Format_Version_Number: zipped KML file
Format_Specification: Zip file of KMZ data
Format_Information_Content:
A zip file containing the geospatial data in KMZ format and metadata describing the data set of seafloor photograph locations (including biogical classifications) collected with the SEABOSS.
File_Decompression_Technique: zip
Transfer_Size: 106 Mb
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Online_Option:
Computer_Contact_Information:
Network_Address:
Network_Resource_Name:
<https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1221/GIS/kmz/BBVS_KMZ_BottomPhotos_wBio.zip>
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
Technical_Prerequisites:
These data are available as a KMZ in Google Earth KMZ format. To utilize these data, the user must have software capable of viewing KMZ files. The shapefile is also distributed in compressed format as one zip file. To utilize these data, the user must be able to uncompress the zip file.
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 201403
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Seth Ackerman
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 x2315
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sackerman@usgs.gov
Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
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