Water Depth and acoustic backscatter data collected from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster in the US Caribbean/ Puerto Rico and St. Thomas from 2016-04-07 to 2016-04-26 (NCEI Accession 0157612)

• Main Author: Tim Battista
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: NOAA NCEI Environmental Data Archive 2017
• Subjects: DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; DOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS > National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce; 0157612; 157612; BATHYMETRY; BOTTOM TYPE; DEPTH - BOTTOM; DEPTH - SENSOR; water depth; multibeam sonar; in situ; NANCY FOSTER; US DOC; NOAA; NOS; National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science; Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment; Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP); CORAL REEF STUDIES; Caribbean Sea; North Atlantic Ocean; oceanography; 463; Mapping Essential Fish Habitat in the US Caribbean to inform MPA management; Geographic Information > Bathymetry; EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Reef Habitat > Description; EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Backscatter; EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Bathymetry; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH; Research Data Types > Geospatial; Research Topics > Habitat Mapping; Research Topics > Remote Sensing; 7125; Acoustic; Bathymetry; Benthic; Biogeography; Coral; EM710; Essential Fish Habitat; GIS; Geotiff; H12935; H12936; Habitat; IOCM; Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping; Kongsberg; M-I907-NF-16; MBES; Multibeam; NF16; NOAA; Nancy Foster; Raster; Reef; Reson; Seafloor Mapping; Seafloor Mapping of the US Caribbean; Sonar; MBES > Multibeam Mapping System; SHIPS; COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Puerto Rico > Puerto Rico (18N066W0000); COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > St. Thomas > St. Thomas (18N064W0033); OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea /North Atlantic Ocean > Puerto Rico > Puerto Rico (18N066W0000); OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea > Virgin Islands > Leeward Islands > St. Thomas (18N064W0033); OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA; Culebra; Insular Shelf; Ponce; Puerto Rico; South Bank; St. Thomas; USVI; North Atlantic
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NOAA's NOS/NCCOS/CCMA Biogeography Team, in collaboration with NOAA Ship Nancy Foster, federal, academic, and private sector partners conducted the 2016 Seafloor Mapping of the US Caribbean project. Several areas of interest were explored and surveyd during the field mission in the eastern Puerto Rico region. H12935 was conducted on along the southeastern Puerto Rican shelf edge using a deep water Em 710 multibeam echo sounder (mbes) at 100khz. H12936 was conducted north of the Isla de Culebra over the broad moderately shallow insular shelf using a 400 khz Reson 7125 mbes. A third opportunistic survey was conducted along the edge of the USVI insular shelf south of St. Thomas to conjoin previous NOAA Ship Nancy Foster mission surveys. During the field mission, a Remotely Operated Vehicle owned by the University of North Carolina collected HD photo and video ground validation video. Data was processed by a NOAA contractor using CARIS HIPS software. Data has all correctors applied (attitude, sound velocity) and has been reduced to mean lower low water (MLLW) using final approved tides from NOAA COOPS. Data is spatially referenced in UTM Zone 20 North, Datum WGS84. The project was conducted to meet IHO order 1 and 2 accuracy standards, dependent on the project area and depth. All users should individually evaluate the suitability of this data according to their own needs and standards.