Bathymetry of the Sandy Hook artificial reef (2-m resolution Esri binary grid and 32-bit GeoTIFF, Mercator, WGS 84)

• Main Authors: U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2017
• Subjects: bathymetry; Esri binary grid; multibeam; sea floor mapping; Simrad EM1000; Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) ship Frederick G. Creed; WHCMSC field activity 2000-015-FA; Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC); U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE); USACE New York District; Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP); U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); Canadian Hydrographic Service; University of New Brunswick; GeoTIFF image; oceans; elevation; geoscientificInformation; imageryBaseMapsEarthCover; multibeam sonar; sea-floor characteristics; marine geophysics; marine geology; Sandy Hook artificial reef; New York Bight; Middle Atlantic Bight; mid-Atlantic Bight; New Jersey; New York; North Atlantic Ocean; Sandy Hook; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/9229408b-a07f-4eae-90d9-f4cea69abe3a

The Sandy Hook artificial reef, located on the sea floor offshore of Sandy Hook, New Jersey was built to create habitat for marine life. The reef was created by the placement of heavy materials on the sea floor; ninety-five percent of the material in the Sandy Hook reef is rock. In 2000, the U.S. Ge...