Conversion Factors, Datum, and Abbreviations

SI to Inch/Pound

Temperature in degrees Celsius (°C) may be converted to degrees Fahrenheit (°F) as follows:
°F=(1.8×°C)+32

Datum

Horizontal coordinate information projected in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) zone 19 is referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83); horizontal information in geographic coordinates is referenced to the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84). The vertical datum for tidal-zone measurements is mean lower low water (MLLW).

Supplemental Information

Phi notation (Krumbein, 1934) as used in this report is defined as: Φ = -log₂ (d), where d is the grain diameter in millimeters. Phi-class intervals in millimeters are given in the data dictionary of the Sediments section of this report.

The frequency of multibeam bathymetry is measured in kilohertz (kHz), one thousand periods per second.

Abbreviations

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
CARIS - Computer Aided Resource Information System
DGPS - differential global positioning system
FAQ - frequently asked questions
GCS - Geographic Coordinate System
GeoTIFF - Geospatial Tagged Image File Format
GIS - geographic information system
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
kHz - kilohertz
µm - micrometer
MBES - multibeam echosounder
NAD 83 - North American Datum of 1983
NOAA  - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RV - research vessel
SEABOSS - Seabed Observation and Sampling System
SIPS - sonar information processing system
USGS - U.S. Geological Survey
UTM - Universal Transverse Mercator
WGS 84 - World Geodetic System of 1984
XML - Extensible Markup Language