Baldwin, Wayne, 2016, 10-m Hillshaded-relief image of Vineyard and western Nantucket Sounds produced from lead-line and single-beam sonar soundings, swath-interferometric, multibeam, and lidar datasets (TIFF image, UTM Zone 19N, WGS84): Open-File Report 2016-1119, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA.This is part of the following larger work.Online Links:
Baldwin, Wayne E. , Foster, David S. , Pendleton, Elizabeth A. , Barnhardt, Walter A. , Schwab, William C. , Andrews, Brian D. , and Ackerman, Seth D. , 2016, Shallow Geology, Sea-Floor Texture, and Physiographic Zones of Vineyard and Western Nantucket Sounds, Massachusetts: Open-File Report 2016-1119, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.Online Links:
This is a Raster data set. It contains the following raster data types:
Planar coordinates are encoded using row and column
Abscissae (x-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 10.000000
Ordinates (y-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 10.000000
Planar coordinates are specified in meters
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.
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This hillshaded-relief image was created as a single continuous surface for the sea floor of Vineyard and western Nantucket Sounds. These data helped define the sediment texture and distribution maps presented as interpretive data layers in USGS OFR 2016-1119
Poppe, L.J., Ackerman, S.D., Foster, D.S., Blackwood, D.S., Butman, B., Moser, M.S., and Stewart, H.F., 2007, Sea-floor character and surface processes in the vicinity of Quicks Hole, Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts: Open-File Report 2006-1357, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.Online Links:
Poppe, L.J., McMullen, K.Y., Foster, D.S., Blackwood, D.S., Williams, S.J., Ackerman, S.D., Moser, M.S., and Glomb, K.A., 2010, Geological interpretation of the sea floor offshore of Edgartown, Massachusetts: Open-File Report 2009-1001, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.Online Links:
Pendleton, E.A., Twichell, D.C., Foster, D.S., Worley, C.R, Irwin, B.J., and Danforth, W.W., 2012, High-resolution geophysical data from the sea floor surrounding the Western Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts: Open-File Report 2011-1184, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.Online Links:
Andrews, B.D., Ackerman, S.D., Baldwin, W.E., Foster, D.S., and Schwab, W.C., 2014, High-Resolution Geophysical Data from the Inner Continental Shelf: Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts: Open-File Report 2012-1006, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.Online Links:
Pendleton, E.A., Andrews, B.D., Danforth, W.W., and Foster, D.S., 2014, High-resolution geophysical data collected aboard the U.S. Geological Survey research vessel Rafael to supplement existing datasets from Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts: Open-File Report 2013-1020, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.Online Links:
Poppe, L.J., McMullen, K.Y., Foster, D.S., Blackwood, D.S., Williams, S.J., Ackerman, S.D., Barnum, S.R., and Brennan, R.T., 2008, Sea-floor character and sedimentary processes in the vicinity of Woods Hole, Massachusetts: Open File Report 2008-1004, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.Online Links:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Survey, National Ocean , 2008, Descriptive report, navigable area survey H11920, Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, Gay Head to Cedar Tree Neck: Descriptive Report H11920, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration - National Ocean Survey, Norfolk, VA.Online Links:
- <http://surveys.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/NOS/coast/H10001-H12000/H11920/>
- <http://surveys.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/NOS/coast/H10001-H12000/H11920/DR/H11920.pdf>
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Survey, National Ocean , 2008, Descriptive report, navigable area survey H11921, Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, Sow and Pigs reef to Quicks Hole: Descriptive Report H11921, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration - National Ocean Survey, Norfolk, VA.Online Links:
- <http://surveys.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/NOS/coast/H10001-H12000/H11921/>
- <http://surveys.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/NOS/coast/H10001-H12000/H11921/DR/H11921.pdf>
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Center of Expertise, 2009, 2005 - 2007 US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Topo/Bathy Lidar: Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island: NOAA National Ocean Service (NOS), Coastal Services Center (CSC), Charleston, SC.Online Links:
- <http://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/?action=advsearch&qType=in&qFld=ID&qVal=116>
- <ftp://coast.noaa.gov/pub/DigitalCoast/lidar1_z/geoid12a/data/116>
NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, 2015, NOS Hydrographic Survey Data.Online Links:
Person who carried out this activity:
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U.S. Geological Survey, 2015, Geologic Mapping of the Seafloor Offshore of Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA.Online Links:
The horizontal accuracy of the source multibeam bathymetry (DGPS) is reported at +/- 3 meters. The horizontal accuracy of the swath bathymetry (DGPS and/or RTK-GPS) is conservatively estimated to be +/- 10 meters. The lidar data were collected to meet the +/- 3-meter accuracy specification. This composite topographic and bathymetric grid is assumed to be horizontally accurate to within 20 meters, as additional errors could have been introduced during resampling, vertical and horizontal reprojections, and mosaicking. Horizontal accuracy for lead-line and single-beam sonar soundings are not documented. See NOAA survey descriptive reports for individual survey positioning methods.
The hillshaded relief was produced from lead-line soundings, single-beam sonar, swath interferometric, multibeam, and lidar data collected during several surveys in Vineyard and western Nantucket Sounds. The input grids can be downloaded by visiting the publications listed in the Source Information.
This hillshaded-relief image was derived from the final output bathymetric DEM (vns10m_navd88) which was created from the best available bathymetric data for Vineyard and western Nantucket Sounds at the time of this publication. The composite bathymetry was created from several smaller bathymetry and lidar datasets that were processed and published in various formats and datums (see Source Information for the individual input data). NOAA single-beam sonar soundings and lead-line soundings were merged with the swath bathymetry and lidar. Bathymetric source datasets that were referenced to tidal datums (mean lower low water) were transformed to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) using VDATUM (version 3.2). Individual datasets were imported into ArcGIS, evaluated for overlap and edited to subsets (generally on the basis of source quality, sounding density, and temporal relevance), compiled into a terrain model, then exported to an interpolated grid at 10 meters per pixel using the Natural Neighbors algorithm.
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vns10m_navd88_hs.zip from USGS Open File report 2016-1119. WinZip V. 14.5 file contains hillshaded relief from Vineyard and western Nantucket Sounds, MA and the associated metadata.
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| Data format: | WinZip V. 14.5 file contains a hillshaded relief GeoTIFF image from Vineyard and western Nantucket Sounds, MA and the associated metadata in format GeoTIFF (version ArcMAP 9.3.1) GeoTIFF Size: 2.27 |
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