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  3. Multibeam bathymetry and acoustic backscatter from the Alaskan region, Extended Continental Shelf Project, 2011 field season: Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea
  4. MGL1111 multibeam backscatter in UTM coordinates
  5. MGL1111backsutm.sd: Multibeam backscatter data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Bering Sea in 2011 during cruise MGL1111, 100-meter gridded data in Fledermaus digital terrain format, UTM zone 60 coordinates

MGL1111backsutm.sd: Multibeam backscatter data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in the Bering Sea in 2011 during cruise MGL1111, 100-meter gridded data in Fledermaus digital terrain format, UTM zone 60 coordinates

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2011-08-10
End Date
2011-09-02

Citation

Barth, G.A., Baldwin, W.E., Reece, R.S., Gulick, S.S., Danforth, W.W., and Wong, F.L., 2022, Multibeam bathymetry and acoustic backscatter from the Alaskan region, Extended Continental Shelf Project, 2011 field season: Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7HM56HK.

Summary

This raster dataset represents approximately 49,581 square kilometers of Simrad EM122 multibeam backscatter-intensity data collected in the Bering Sea during U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) cruise MGL1111 aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth. Calibrated backscatter-intensity time-series data were adjusted for range-angle, beam pattern, and power-gain distortions.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Originator :
Ginger Barth, Wayne E Baldwin, Robert S Reece, Sean S Gulick, William W Danforth, Florence L Wong
Metadata Contact :
PCMSC Science Data Coordinator
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Mission Area :
Natural Hazards
SDC Data Owner :
Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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MGL1111backsutm.sd 109.01 MB x-gis/x-arcgis-service-def
MGL1111backsutm.sd.xml
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MGL1111backsutm.prj 128 Bytes text/plain
MGL1111backscat.jpg
“MGL1111 acoustic backscatter, Bering Sea” 		thumbnail 37.26 KB image/jpeg

Purpose

In August 2011, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a research cruise in the Bering Sea aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University) as part of the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Project. The mission focused primarily on obtaining geophysical data (multichannel and CHIRP seismic reflection, ocean bottom seismometry, multibeam bathymetry, sonobuoy, XBT and XCTD) for the purposes of determining geologic framework, crustal nature, and sediment thickness in support of delineating the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf under provisions contained in Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
MGL1111 acoustic backscatter, Bering Sea
MGL1111 acoustic backscatter, Bering Sea

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