OCNMS SoNAR MOSAIC

Survey HMPR-108-2002-01

 

A zipped extent shapefile may be obtained here (if you have difficulty, try right click and ‘save target as…’)

Projection: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Washington_South_FIPS_4602, Units Foot_US

 

This survey consists of three mosaics. Data is directly downloadable at the following locations:

The areas of these mosaics were not delineated within the extent polygon.

 

side scan mosaic east

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mos108_0201e

side scan mosaic south

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mos108_0201s

side scan mosaic west

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mos108_0201w

 


Physical Description

 

These data are side scan sonar mosaics in GeoTiff format.  Resolution is 1 Meter. 

 

Projection: WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_10N, Units Meters

 

The side scan sonar image of the sea floor (120-350 m water depths) was mosaiced from data collected in 2002. An Edgetech DF1000 side scan system was used for geophysical surveying using only the 100Khz data.  A Trimble DSM212H differential GPS was used for positioning.  Navigation from the GPS and Gyro were logged in Hypack version 005B (Coastal Oceanographics). Isis Sonar (Triton Imaging) was used to log the digital sonar packets and cable counter data. Data were captured at an 300 m range scale setting.

 

Accuracy of the horizontal coordinates is on the order of 10-30m based on the uncertainty in position of side scan sonar towfish relative to ships gps position.  Horizontal layback is more accurate than lateral offsets since any lateral offset in the towfish position (due to side currents) is unaccounted for in the layback calculations.

 


Ancillary Data

Several survey-specific datasets pertaining to groundtruthing, the survey track, videos, seabed samples, etc are provided on the OCNMS Data Catalog under 108-2002-01.


Derived Data Products

Survey specific bathymetry contours and habitat polygons are provided on the OCNMS Data Catalog under 108-2002-01.

 


Other Useful Information

This page contains content copied from OCNMS’s Data Catalog.  Please see their webpage for comprehensive information on OCNMS SoNAR data and data products

 

Also, see their Benthic Mapping webpage.  Overviews of side scan sonar and multibeam sonar are available as well as a comprehensive overview of their benthic mapping program.

 

A comprehensive citable report pertaining to this specific survey is can be downloaded here in *.pdf format.

 


 

Questions? Commemts?

Contact Keven Bennett kbenet@u.washington.edu

 

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