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Water depth and acoustic backscatter data collected from NOAA Ship Nancy Foster in Caribbean Sea, southern and eastern offshore of Isla de Vieques from 2009-03-26 to 2009-04-02 (NCEI Accession 0131857)

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The Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA) completed its sixth year of an ongoing scientific research mission on board NOAA Ship NANCY FOSTER. The objective of this project was to collect a multibeam bathymetry dataset with 100% seafloor ensonification, along with multibeam backscatter suitable for seafloor characterization in high priority conservation areas within Puerto Rico. Scientists collected high-resolution multibeam in mid-water depths from approximately 10 to 1020 meters.

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0131857 BATHYMETRY BOTTOM TYPE DEPTH - BOTTOM DEPTH - SENSOR water depth multibeam sonar in situ NOAA Ship Nancy Foster US DOC/NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science/Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment 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 oceanography DOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS > National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Geographic Information > Backscatter 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 > BATHYMETRY EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH Backscatter/Intensity Bathymetry/Topography Backscatter Bathymetry Benthic Biogeography Coral El Seco GIS Geotiff Habitat IOCM Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping Intensity MBES Multibeam NOAA NOAA Biogeography NPS Nancy Foster Puerto Rico Raster Reson 7125 Seafloor Simrad EM 1002 Sonar U.S. Caribbean US Virgin Islands USVI benthic habitats biological cover coral reef geomorphological structure ground truthing ground validation reef transect underwater photography underwater video zone MBES > Multibeam Mapping System Ships NANCY FOSTER (call sign: WTER, ICES code: 33NF, 2004-) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Puerto Rico > Puerto Rico (18N066W0000) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Puerto Rico > Vieques > Vieques Island (18N065W0002) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > U. S. Virgin Islands > U. S. Virgin Islands > U. S. Virgin Islands (17N064W0000) OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea /North Atlantic Ocean > Puerto Rico > Puerto Rico (18N066W0000) OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Caribbean Sea /North Atlantic Ocean > Puerto Rico > Vieques Island > Vieques Island (18N065W0002) OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA El Seco Isla de Vieques Puerto Rico St. Croix St. John St. Thomas U.S. Caribbean U.S. Virgin Islands US Virgin Islands USVI United States 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 09UNG5

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.nodc:0131857
issued	2015-10-22T00:00:00.000+00:00
landingPage	https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
language	[]
references	[ "https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/seafloor-characterization-caribbean/" ]
rights	otherRestrictions
spatial	-65.17628,18.046,-65.643,18.146
temporal	2009-03-26T00:00:00+00:00/2009-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

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