Sea floor maps showing topography, sun-illuminated topographic imagery, and backscatter intensity of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Region off Boston, Massachusetts

• Main Authors: Page C. Valentine, Tammie J. Middleton, Sarah J. Fuller
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2001
• Subjects: marine geology; geospatial datasets; bathymetry; sea-floor characteristics; sonar methods; Geographic Information Systems; GIS; Woods Hole Field Center; WHFC; United States Geological Survey; USGS; SIMRAD SUBSEA EM 1000; Frederick G. CREED; Swath Bathymetry; Multibeam Echo Sounder; Topographic data; Sea floor topography; Bathymetry; Sun-illuminated imagery; Shaded relief imagery; geoscientificInformation; Massachusetts; MA; Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary; SBNMS; Shallow EEZ; EEZ; Gulf of Maine; Atlantic Ocean; Ocean; OC13 = North Atlantic; f25001 = Barnstable; f25009 = Essex; f25021 = Norfolk; f25023 = Plymouth; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/247a48f5-cb2e-4570-9067-b1b353f3aab8

This data set contains the sea floor topographic contours, sun-illuminated topographic imagery, and backscatter intensity generated from a multibeam sonar survey of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts, an area of approximately 1100 square nautical miles. Th...