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AFSC/RACE/GAP/Prescott: Central Gulf of Alaska Multibeam Survey H11114

Metadata Updated: April 1, 2024

We assembled 1.75 million National Ocean Service (NOS) bathymetric soundings from 225 lead-line and single-beam echosounder hydrographic surveys conducted from 1901 to 1999 in the central Gulf of Alaska. These bathymetry data are available from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov), which archives and distributes data that were originally collected by the NOS and others. While various bathymetry data have been downloaded previously from NGDC, compiled, and used for a variety of projects, our effort differed in that we compared and corrected the digital bathymetry by studying the original analog source documents - digital versions of the original survey maps, called smooth sheets. There were several areas where these older surveys were superseded by more recent, higher quality multibeam surveys, mostly from the NOS (n=106). Three of these were unprocessed NOS multibeam surveys in the Sitka area, which we edited and processed into final bathymetric surfaces. We reduced the resolution of these multibeam surveys to 100 m, since some may have sub-meter resolution and many exceed a million soundings, and added them to our bathymetry compilation. In Sitka Sound was missing survey H11114. Processing and adding its bathymetric data to our compilation filled in a substantial gap in Sitka area, between Kruzof and Krestof islands.

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Dates

Metadata Date February 29, 2024
Metadata Created Date October 28, 2022
Metadata Updated Date April 1, 2024
Reference Date(s) 2015 (publication)
Frequency Of Update notPlanned

Metadata Source

Harvested from NMFS AFSC

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date February 29, 2024
Metadata Created Date October 28, 2022
Metadata Updated Date April 1, 2024
Reference Date(s) 2015 (publication)
Responsible Party (Point of Contact, Custodian)
Contact Email
Guid gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:22957
Access Constraints Cite As: Alaska Fisheries Science Center, [Date of Access]: AFSC/RACE/GAP/Prescott: Central Gulf of Alaska Multibeam Survey H11114 [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/22957., Access Constraints: These data are not to be used for navigation., Use Constraints: These data are not to be used for navigation. We consider this bathymetry compilation a fairly complete first draft and sufficient in quality for addition to the central Gulf of Alaska bathymetry compilation.
Bbox East Long -135.51
Bbox North Lat 57.23
Bbox South Lat 57.13
Bbox West Long -135.63
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update notPlanned
Harvest Object Id 11f56d4b-8324-42a7-ab34-2df548ab1ad7
Harvest Source Id 26a29bb9-50b0-47fd-920b-edc74aa6ec76
Harvest Source Title NMFS AFSC
Licence NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose.
Lineage unknown
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-135.63, 57.13], [-135.51, 57.13], [-135.51, 57.23], [-135.63, 57.23], [-135.63, 57.13]]]}
Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2004
Temporal Extent End 2004

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