Multibeam Echosounder, Reson T-20P tracklines, USGS field activity 2017-003-FA, Mississippi River Delta front offshore of southeastern Louisiana (Esri polyline shapefile, GCS WGS 84)

High resolution bathymetric, sea-floor backscatter, and seismic-reflection data were collected offshore of southeastern Louisiana aboard the research vessel Point Sur on May 19-26, 2017, in an effort to characterize mudflow hazards on the Mississippi River Delta front. As the initial field program of a research cooperative between the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and other Federal and academic partners, the primary objective of this cruise was to assess the suitability of sea-floor mapping and shallow subsurface imaging tools in the challenging environmental conditions found across delta fronts (for example, variably distributed water column stratification and widespread biogenic...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: BOEM, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Marine Geology, Mississippi River Delta front, Pass a Loutre, Reson, South Pass, Southeast Louisiana, Southwest Pass, T20P, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, backscatter, bathymetry, bathymetry, field activity number 2017-003-FA, geoscientificInformation, location, marine geology, marine geophysics, multibeam backscatter, multibeam bathymetry, multibeam echosounder, multibeam sonar, navigational data, oceans, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, shapefile, trackline navigation, Fewer tags

Multibeam Echosounder, Reson T-20P tracklines collected in Little Egg Inlet and offshore the southern end of Long Beach Island, NJ, during USGS Field Activity 2018-001-FA (Esri polyline shapefile, GCS WGS 84)

The natural resiliency of the New Jersey barrier island system, and the efficacy of management efforts to reduce vulnerability, depends on the ability of the system to recover and maintain equilibrium in response to storms and persistent coastal change. This resiliency is largely dependent on the availability of sand in the beach system. In an effort to better understand the system's sand budget and processes in which this system evolves, high-resolution geophysical mapping of the sea floor in Little Egg Inlet and along the southern end of Long Beach Island near Beach Haven, New Jersey was conducted from May 31 to June 10, 2018, followed by a sea floor sampling survey conducted from October 22 to 23, 2018, as part...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Beach Haven, CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, DOI, Department of the Interior, All tags... Forsythe Wildlife Refuge, GeoTIFF, Holgate, Little Egg Inlet, Long Beach Island, Marine Geology, New Jersey, R/V Petrel, Reson, Stockton University, T20P, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, backscatter, bathymetry, field activity number 2018-001-FA, field activity number 2018-049-FA, geology, geophysics, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, multibeam backscatter, multibeam bathymetry, multibeam echosounder, multibeam sonar, navigational data, oceans, Fewer tags

Multibeam backscatter data collected within Lake Powell, UT-AZ during USGS Field Activity 2017-049-FA, using a dual-head Reson T20-P multibeam echosounder (8-bit GeoTIFF, UTM Zone 12N, WGS 84, 2 meter resolution)

High-resolution geophysical mapping of Lake Powell in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Utah and Arizona was conducted between October 8 and November 15, 2017, as part of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Reclamation to provide high-quality data needed to reassess the area-capacity tables for the Lake Powell reservoir. Seismic data collected during this survey can help to define the rates of deposition within the San Juan and Colorado Rivers, which are the main inflows to Lake Powell. These new data are intended to improve water budget management decisions that affect the natural and recreational resources of the reservoir. Multibeam echosounder bathymetry and...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Antelope Canyon, BOR, Bullfrog, Bullfrog Bay, Bureau of Reclamation, All tags... CMGP, CRSP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Coconino County, Colorado River, Colorado River Storage Project, DOI, Dangling Rope, Department of the Interior, Escalante River, Friendship Bay, Garfield County, GeoTIFF, Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Good Hope Bay, Great Bend, Gunsight Bay, Halls Bay, Halls Crossing, Hite, Kane County, Lake Powell, Last Chance Bay, NPS, National Park Service, Navajo Canyon, Padre Bay, Page, R/V Stephens, Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Rock Creek Bay, San Juan County, San Juan River, State of Arizona, State of Utah, T20-P, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, UWSC, United States of America, Utah Water Science Center, WHCMSC, Wahweap, Wahweap Bay, Warm Creek Bay, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, backscatter, field activity number 2017-049-FA, geology, geophysics, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, inlandWaters, lakebed acoustic reflectivity, lakebed characteristics, multibeam backscatter, multibeam echosounder, multibeam sonar, time-series, Fewer tags

Multibeam backscatter data collected in Nantucket Sound Massachusetts in the vicinity of Horseshoe Shoal, during USGS Field Activity 2022-001-FA using a Teledyne SeaBat Integrated Dual-Head (IDH) T20-P multibeam echosounder (8-bit GeoTIFF, UTM Zone 19N, WGS 84, 1-m resolution)

In June 2022, the U.S. Geological Survey, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, collected high-resolution geophysical data, in Nantucket Sound to understand the regional geology in the vicinity of Horseshoe Shoal. This effort is part of a long-term collaboration between the USGS and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to map the State’s waters, support research on the Quaternary evolution of coastal Massachusetts, resolve the influence of sea-level change and sediment supply on coastal evolution, and strengthen efforts to understand the type, distribution, and quality of subtidal marine habitats. This collaboration produces high-resolution geologic data that serve the needs of...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, CMHRP, CZM, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, DOI, All tags... Department of the Interior, Eldridge Shoal, GeoTIFF, Horseshoe Shoal, Marine Geology, MassCZM, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, Nantucket Sound, R/V Rafael, Reson, Succonnesset Shoal, T20-P, Teledyne, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Wreck Shoal, backscatter, field activity number 2022-001-FA, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine geology, marine geophysics, multibeam backscatter, multibeam echosounder, multibeam sonar, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, time-series, Fewer tags

Backscatter imagery collected in 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach Sandwich, Massachusetts during field activity 2016-017-FA (GeoTIFF image)

Geophysical and geological survey data were collected off Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, Massachusetts, in May and July 2016. Approximately 130 linear kilometers of subbottom (seismic-reflection) and 234-kilohertz interferometric sonar (bathymetric and backscatter) data were collected along with sediment samples, sea floor photographs, and (or) video at 26 sites within the geophysical survey area. Sediment grab samples were collected at 19 of the 26 sampling sites and video and (or) photographic imagery of the sea floor were taken at all 26 sites. These survey data are used to characterize the sea floor by identifying sediment-texture, seabed morphology, and underlying geologic structure and stratigraphy. Data collected...

Tags: Atlantic Ocean, CMGP, Cape Cod Bay, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, GeoTIFF, All tags... Gulf of Maine, Marine Geology, Massachusetts, North America, R/V Rafael, SEA SWATHplus, SEA Submetrix, Sandwich, Town Neck Beach, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, backscatter, beach, coast, field activity 2016-017-FA, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, interferometric sonar, interferometry, marine geology, marine geology, marine geophysics, marine geophysics, oceans, raster, sea floor, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, sea-floor characteristics, seafloor, sedimentary environments, shore, swath backscatter, Fewer tags

Sediment Texture and Geomorphology of the Sea Floor from Fenwick Island, Maryland to Fisherman's Island, Virginia

These data are a qualitatively derived interpretive polygon shapefile defining surficial sediment type and distribution, and geomorphology, for nearly 1,400 square kilometers of sea floor on the inner-continental shelf from Fenwick Island, Maryland to Fisherman’s Island, Virginia, USA. These data are classified according to Barnhardt and others (1998) bottom-type classification system, which was modified to highlight changes in secondary sediment-types such as mud and gravel across this primarily sandy shelf. Most of the geophysical and sample data used to create this interpretive layer were collected as part of the Linking Coastal Processes and Vulnerability: Assateague Island Regional Study project (GS2-2C), supported...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Assateague Island, Assateague Island National Seashore, Assawoman Island, Atlantic Ocean, Backscatter, All tags... Bathymetry, Bottom Photographs, Bottom Type, Cape Henlopen, Cedar Island, Chincoteague Inlet, Chincoteague Island, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Cobb Island, Delaware, Delmarva Peninsula, Delmarva Peninsula, Fenwick Island, Fisherman's Island, Hog Island, Interpretation, Marine Geology, Maryland, Metompkin Island, Mid-Atlantic Bight, Mink Island, Mockhorn Island, Myrtle Island, Ocean City, Parramore Island, Rehoboth, Sea floor, Sediment Cover, Sediment Distribution, Sediment Samples, Sediment Texture, Ship Shoal Island, Sidescan Sonar, Slope, Smith Island, Virginia, Wallops Island, Wreck Island, carbonate, geomorphology, interpretation, marine geology, marine geophysics, sea-floor characteristics, sediment texture, Fewer tags

High-resolution (1m) backscatter from the Stamp Sands of Lake Superior collected using a Norbit iWBMSh multibeam echosounder during 2021 (GeoTIFF, UTM Zone 16N, NAD 83, NAVD 88)

The erosion and active transport of legacy mine tailings (called “stamp sands”) are impacting native fish species and aquatic habitats on a shallow water rocky reef complex along the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan called Buffalo Reef. Stamp sands are spreading from an old mill site at the Town of Gay and settling on the reef. Multiple surveys have documented the underwater migration of toxic, metal-rich stamp sands and progressive burial of areas of hard/complex lakefloor, such as cobble fields. The finer-grained, muddy fraction of the mine tailings has been winnowed by waves and currents and transported to unknown locations in deeper waters offshore. High-resolution geophysical mapping of the bay in 2018 revealed...

Tags: Buffalo Reef, DOI, Department of the Interior, GLSC, GeoTIFF, All tags... Grand Traverse Bay, Great Lakes Science Center, Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Keweenaw Peninsula, Lacustrine Geology, Lake Superior, Norbit echo sounder, R/V Desmid, R/V Rafael, State of Michigan, backscatter, bathymetry, bathymetry, field activity number 2021-005-FA, geophysics, geospatial datasets, iWBMSh, lakebed characteristics, multibeam backscatter, multibeam bathymetry, multibeam echosounder, multibeam sonar, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, Fewer tags

Multibeam Echosounder, Reson T-20P deep site backscatter (4-m), USGS field activity 2017-003-FA, Mississippi River Delta front offshore of southeastern Louisiana (8-bit GeoTIFF, UTM Zone 16N, NAD 83)

High resolution bathymetric, sea-floor backscatter, and seismic-reflection data were collected offshore of southeastern Louisiana aboard the research vessel Point Sur on May 19-26, 2017, in an effort to characterize mudflow hazards on the Mississippi River Delta front. As the initial field program of a research cooperative between the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and other Federal and academic partners, the primary objective of this cruise was to assess the suitability of sea-floor mapping and shallow subsurface imaging tools in the challenging environmental conditions found across delta fronts (for example, variably distributed water column stratification and widespread biogenic...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: BOEM, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, GeoTIFF, All tags... Gulf of Mexico, Marine Geology, Mississippi River Delta front, Pass a Loutre, Reson, South Pass, Southeast Louisiana, Southwest Pass, T20P, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, backscatter, bathymetry, bathymetry, field activity number 2017-003-FA, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine geology, marine geophysics, multibeam backscatter, multibeam bathymetry, multibeam echosounder, multibeam sonar, oceans, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, Fewer tags

Multibeam bathymetric data collected in Little Egg Inlet and offshore the southern end of Long Beach Island, NJ, during USGS Field Activity 2018-001-FA, using a dual-head Reson T20-P multibeam echosounder (32-bit GeoTIFF, UTM Zone 18N, NAD 83, NAVD 88 Vertical Datum, 4-m resolution)

The natural resiliency of the New Jersey barrier island system, and the efficacy of management efforts to reduce vulnerability, depends on the ability of the system to recover and maintain equilibrium in response to storms and persistent coastal change. This resiliency is largely dependent on the availability of sand in the beach system. In an effort to better understand the system's sand budget and processes in which this system evolves, high-resolution geophysical mapping of the sea floor in Little Egg Inlet and along the southern end of Long Beach Island near Beach Haven, New Jersey was conducted from May 31 to June 10, 2018, followed by a sea floor sampling survey conducted from October 22 to 23, 2018, as part...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Beach Haven, CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, DOI, Department of the Interior, All tags... Forsythe Wildlife Refuge, GeoTIFF, Holgate, Little Egg Inlet, Long Beach Island, Marine Geology, New Jersey, R/V Petrel, Reson, Stockton University, T20P, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, backscatter, bathymetry, bathymetry, elevation, field activity number 2018-001-FA, field activity number 2018-049-FA, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine geology, marine geophysics, multibeam backscatter, multibeam bathymetry, multibeam echosounder, multibeam sonar, oceans, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, Fewer tags

High-resolution (1m) bathymetry from the Stamp Sands of Lake Superior collected using a Norbit iWBMSh multibeam echosounder during 2021 (GeoTIFF, UTM Zone 16N, NAD 83, NAVD 88)

The erosion and active transport of legacy mine tailings (called “stamp sands”) are impacting native fish species and aquatic habitats on a shallow water rocky reef complex along the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan called Buffalo Reef. Stamp sands are spreading from an old mill site at the Town of Gay and settling on the reef. Multiple surveys have documented the underwater migration of toxic, metal-rich stamp sands and progressive burial of areas of hard/complex lakefloor, such as cobble fields. The finer-grained, muddy fraction of the mine tailings has been winnowed by waves and currents and transported to unknown locations in deeper waters offshore. High-resolution geophysical mapping of the bay in 2018 revealed...

Tags: Buffalo Reef, DOI, Department of the Interior, GLSC, GeoTIFF, All tags... Grand Traverse Bay, Great Lakes Science Center, Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Keweenaw Peninsula, Lacustrine Geology, Lake Superior, Norbit echo sounder, R/V Desmid, R/V Rafael, State of Michigan, backscatter, bathymetry, bathymetry, field activity number 2021-005-FA, geophysics, geospatial datasets, iWBMSh, lakebed characteristics, multibeam backscatter, multibeam bathymetry, multibeam echosounder, multibeam sonar, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, Fewer tags

Multibeam backscatter data collected in the eastern Gulf of Alaska during USGS Field Activity 2016-625-FA using a Reson 7160 multibeam echosounder (10 meter resolution, 8-bit GeoTIFF, UTM 8 WGS 84, WGS 84 Ellipsoid)

Marine geophysical mapping of the Queen Charlotte Fault in the eastern Gulf of Alaska was conducted in 2016 as part of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to understand the morphology and subsurface geology of the entire Queen Charlotte system. The Queen Charlotte fault is the offshore portion of the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault: a major structural feature that extends more than 1,200 kilometers from the Fairweather Range of southern Alaska to northern Vancouver Island, Canada. The data published in this data release were collected along the Queen Charlotte Fault between Cross Sound and Noyes Canyon, offshore southeastern Alaska from May 18 to...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: ADFG, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Baranof Fan, Baranof Island, CMHRP, All tags... Chatham Strait, Chichagof Island, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Cross Sound, GeoTIFF, GeoscientificInformation, Gulf of Alaska, Heceta Knoll, Icy Point, ImageryBaseMapsEarthCover, North Pacific Ocean, Noyes Canyon, Oceans, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Pacific Ocean, Queen Charlotte Fault, R/V Medeia, Reson 7160, TerraSond, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Yakobi Sea Valley, backscatter, multibeam, seafloor, time-series, Fewer tags

Physiographic Zones of the Sea Floor offshore of western and southern Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts

Geologic, sediment texture, and physiographic zone maps characterize the sea floor south and west of Martha's Vineyard and north of Nantucket, Massachusetts. These maps were derived from interpretations of seismic-reflection profiles, high-resolution bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter intensity, bottom photographs, and surficial sediment samples. The interpretation of the seismic stratigraphy and mapping of glacial and Holocene marine units provided a foundation on which the surficial maps were created. This mapping is a result of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management to characterize the surface and subsurface geologic framework offshore of...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aquinnah, Atlantic Ocean, Backscatter, Bathymetry, CMGP, All tags... CZM, Cape Cod, Chappaquiddick Island, Children's Beach, Chilmark, Coastal Embayment, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Coatue, Dionis Beach, Ebb-tidal Delta, Eel Point, Esri Shapefile, Gay Head, Great Point, Hard-bottom Plain, Interpretation, Katama Beach, Long Point Wildlife Refuge, Lucy Vincent Beach, Marine Geology, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, Muskeget Channel, Muskeget Island, Nantucket, Nantucket Harbor, Nantucket Sound, Nearshore Basin, Nearshore Ramp, Nomans Land, Outer Basin, Physiographic Zones, Rocky Zone, Sea floor, Shell Zone, Shoal\Sand Wave, Shovelful Shoal, Slope, South Beach, Squibnocket Beach, Squibnocket Point, Tisbury, Tisbury Great Pond Beach, Topography, Tuckernuck Bank, Tuckernuck Island, Tuckernuck Shoal, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1288, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1006, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016-1168, USGS, Vineyard Sound, WHCMSC, Wasque Shoal, Wasque point, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, marine geology, oceans, scientific information, sea-floor characteristics, sedimentology, sieve-size analysis, unconsolidated deposits, Fewer tags

High-resolution geophysical and geological data collected in Little Egg Inlet and offshore the southern end of Long Beach Island, NJ, during USGS Field Activities 2018-001-FA and 2018-049-FA

The natural resiliency of the New Jersey barrier island system, and the efficacy of management efforts to reduce vulnerability, depends on the ability of the system to recover and maintain equilibrium in response to storms and persistent coastal change. This resiliency is largely dependent on the availability of sand in the beach system. In an effort to better understand the system's sand budget and processes in which this system evolves, high-resolution geophysical mapping of the sea floor in Little Egg Inlet and along the southern end of Long Beach Island near Beach Haven, New Jersey was conducted from May 31 to June 10, 2018, followed by a sea floor sampling survey conducted from October 22 to 23, 2018, as part...

Tags: Beach Haven, CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, DOI, Department of the Interior, All tags... Forsythe Wildlife Refuge, GeoTIFF, Holgate, Little Egg Inlet, Long Beach Island, Marine Geology, Marine Geology, New Jersey, R/V Petrel, Reson, Stockton University, T20P, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, backscatter, bathymetry, bathymetry, elevation, field activity number 2018-001-FA, field activity number 2018-049-FA, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine geology, marine geophysics, multibeam backscatter, multibeam bathymetry, multibeam echosounder, multibeam sonar, oceans, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, Fewer tags

Oregon OCS web services

Approximately 95 square kilometers of area was mapped with multibeam sonar. The survey expanded the extent of mapping data collected by Solmar Hydro Inc. in 2013 under a contract with WindFloat Pacific. When added to the Solmar Hydro data the total area mapped is approximately 140 square kilometers, lying in Federal waters on the shelf offshore of Coos Bay of interest for renewable energy (OCS-P lease blocks 6523, 6524, 6573, 6574, 6623, 6624, 6673, and 6674). Water depths range from 300 to 500 meters and are within the effective depth range of the Reson 7111. The seabed in his area is composed of sand and mud, with rocky outcrops on tectonically uplifted features. The survey was conducted using 12 hour day operations...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: BOEM, Oregon, Outer Continental Shelf, USGS, alternative energy, All tags... backscatter, bathymetry, seafloor mapping, Fewer tags

Oregon OCS backscatter

This Data Release contains data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) survey of the Oregon outer Continental shelf (OCS) Floating Wind Farm Site in 2014.The backscatter intensity data was collected along with bathymetry data by USGS during the period from August 20 to September 1, 2014, using a Reson 7111 multibeam echosounder. The mapping mission collected bathymetry data from about 163 m to 566 m depths on the Oregon outer continental shelf. The acquisition was funded by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.Within the final imagery, brighter tones indicate higher backscatter intensity, and darker tones indicate lower backscatter intensity. The intensity represents a complex interaction between the acoustic...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Backscatter, Bathymetry, CSMP, Coos Bay, Geology, All tags... Intensity, Marine Geology, Multibeam, Ocean Floor Topography, Oceans > OceanAcoustics > Acoustic Reflectivity, PCMSC, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, State of Oregon, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, data release, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, oceans, Fewer tags

Offshore of Moriches Inlet, New York

These data are from a 1998 multibeam survey of the sea floor offshore of Moriches Inlet, New York. There are five datasets: bathymetry grid, shaded-relief image, backscatter intensity image, shaded-relief colored by backscatter intensity image, and trackline navigation. The bathymetry shows the shape of the sea floor. Of particular interest are the size, shape, and orientation of bed forms that may indicate sediment movement. The shaded-relief image provides a visualization of the bathymetry that accentuates small features that cannot be effectively shown as contours alone. The image of backscatter intensity provides qualitative information on the sediment texture and roughness of the sea floor. The image of shaded-relief...

Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Long Island, Middle Atlantic Bight, Montauk Point, New York, New York Bight, All tags... North Atlantic Ocean, backscatter, backscatter intensity, bathymetry, elevation, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, mid-Atlantic Bight, multibeam, oceans, sea floor, sea floor mapping, shaded-relief bathymetry, tracklines, Fewer tags

Multibeam backscatter data collected in Little Egg Inlet and offshore the southern end of Long Beach Island, NJ, during USGS Field Activity 2018-001-FA, using a dual-head Reson T20-P multibeam echosounder (8-bit GeoTIFF, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84, 2 meter resolution)

The natural resiliency of the New Jersey barrier island system, and the efficacy of management efforts to reduce vulnerability, depends on the ability of the system to recover and maintain equilibrium in response to storms and persistent coastal change. This resiliency is largely dependent on the availability of sand in the beach system. In an effort to better understand the system's sand budget and processes in which this system evolves, high-resolution geophysical mapping of the sea floor in Little Egg Inlet and along the southern end of Long Beach Island near Beach Haven, New Jersey was conducted from May 31 to June 10, 2018, followed by a sea floor sampling survey conducted from October 22 to 23, 2018, as part...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Beach Haven, CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, DOI, Department of the Interior, All tags... Forsythe Wildlife Refuge, GeoTIFF, Holgate, Little Egg Inlet, Long Beach Island, Marine Geology, New Jersey, R/V Petrel, Reson, Stockton University, T20P, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States of America, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, backscatter, bathymetry, bathymetry, field activity number 2018-001-FA, field activity number 2018-049-FA, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine geology, marine geophysics, multibeam backscatter, multibeam bathymetry, multibeam echosounder, multibeam sonar, oceans, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, Fewer tags

Web services Santa Barbara Channel Geohab

This study took place in the Santa Barbara channel region of southern California, USA. The Santa Barbara channel is a well-known biogeographic transition zone and nearshore rocky reefs and kelp forests are home to many important commercial and recreationally fished species. In particular, rockfishes (genus Sebastes) are long-lived, piscivorous reef fishes that are important predators and are both commercially and recreationally fished. Kelp bass (Paralabrax clathratus), another important fish predator makes up a major sport fishery in southern CA. Finally, CA sheephead (Semicossyphus pulcher) are predators on grazing urchins and have been shown to exert top down control on kelp forests in the area (Hamilton and...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: BOEM, California, Continental Shelf, Santa Barbara Channel, USGS, All tags... backscatter, bathymetry, energy, marine habitat, seafloor mapping, Fewer tags

Multibeam Echosounder, Reson T-20P Southwest Pass site backscatter (4-m), USGS field activity 2017-003-FA, Mississippi River Delta front offshore of southeastern Louisiana (8-bit GeoTIFF, UTM Zone 16N, NAD 83)

High resolution bathymetric, sea-floor backscatter, and seismic-reflection data were collected offshore of southeastern Louisiana aboard the research vessel Point Sur on May 19-26, 2017, in an effort to characterize mudflow hazards on the Mississippi River Delta front. As the initial field program of a research cooperative between the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and other Federal and academic partners, the primary objective of this cruise was to assess the suitability of sea-floor mapping and shallow subsurface imaging tools in the challenging environmental conditions found across delta fronts (for example, variably distributed water column stratification and widespread biogenic...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: BOEM, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, GeoTIFF, All tags... Gulf of Mexico, Marine Geology, Mississippi River Delta front, Pass a Loutre, Reson, South Pass, Southeast Louisiana, Southwest Pass, T20P, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, backscatter, bathymetry, bathymetry, field activity number 2017-003-FA, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine geology, marine geophysics, multibeam backscatter, multibeam bathymetry, multibeam echosounder, multibeam sonar, oceans, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, Fewer tags

Survey lines along which swath sonar (bathymetric and backscatter) data were collected in 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach Sandwich, Massachusetts during field activity 2016-017-FA

Geophysical and geological survey data were collected off Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, Massachusetts, in May and July 2016. Approximately 130 linear kilometers of subbottom (seismic-reflection) and 234-kilohertz interferometric sonar (bathymetric and backscatter) data were collected along with sediment samples, sea floor photographs, and (or) video at 26 sites within the geophysical survey area. Sediment grab samples were collected at 19 of the 26 sampling sites and video and (or) photographic imagery of the sea floor were taken at all 26 sites. These survey data are used to characterize the sea floor by identifying sediment-texture, seabed morphology, and underlying geologic structure and stratigraphy. Data collected...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, CMGP, Cape Cod Bay, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Gulf of Maine, All tags... Marine Geology, Massachusetts, North America, R/V Rafael, SEA SWATHPlus, SEA Submetrix, Sandwich, Town Neck Beach, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, backscatter, bathymetry, bathymetry, beach, coast, field activity 2016-017-FA, geomorphology, interferometric sonar, interferometry, location, marine geology, marine geophysics, marine geophysics, navigational data, oceans, sea floor, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, sea-floor characteristics, seafloor, sedimentary environments, shapefile, shore, survey line, swath bathymetry, trackline, Fewer tags