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NOAA Office for Coastal Management
(843) 740-1202
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
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2024-02-29T00:00:00
ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for imagery and gridded data
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Benthic Habitats and Surficial Geology of Apalachicola Bay, Florida 2006 Geoform
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2015
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NOAA/NMFS/EDM
47874
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/47874
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https://iocm.noaa.gov/cmecs
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CMECS Home Page
Information and resources on the CMECS standard and how to apply it
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http://www.cmecscatalog.org/
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CMECS Catalog
Searchable online catalog of CMECS units, descriptions, and source references
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https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/
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NOAA's Office for Coastal Management (OCM) Digital Coast Data section
The website provides not only coastal data, but also the tools, training, and information needed to make these data truly useful. Content comes from many sources, all of which are vetted by NOAA.
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These data were collected under a cooperative mapping program between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management (NOAA\OCM), and the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR). The primary objectives of this program were to collect marine geophysical data to develop a suite of seafloor maps to better define the extent of oyster habitats, the overall seafloor geology of the bay and provide updated information for management of this resource. In addition to their value for management of the bay's oyster resources, the maps also provide a geologic framework for scientific research and the public.
High-resolution bathymetry, backscatter intensity, and seismic profile data were collected over 230 square kilometers of the floor of the bay. The study focused on the Apalachicola Bay and Western St. George Sound portions of the estuary in mostly in depths > 2.0 meters.
Original contact information:
Contact Org: NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Phone: 843-740-1202
Email: coastal.info@noaa.gov
This shapefile provides a high-resolution interpretation of the surficial geology of Apalachicola Bay, and western part of St. George Sound, Florida. The interpretation is based on the sidescan sonar imagery, the bathymetry, available sediment sample information, and seafloor observations. The initial surficial geologic interpretations have been translated by the Office for Coastal Management into the Florida System for Classifying Habitats in Estuarine and Marine Environments (SCHEME). No sediment classes were lost during this process.
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NOAA Office for Coastal Management
(843) 740-1202
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
coastal.info@noaa.gov
https://coast.noaa.gov
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Website
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page
information
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NOAA Office for Coastal Management
(843) 740-1202
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
coastal.info@noaa.gov
https://coast.noaa.gov
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Website
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page
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JPEG image of Surficial Geology shapefile
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https://coast.noaa.gov/data/Images/Collections/BenthicCover_thumbnail.jpg
Sample of benthic cover data
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EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > ESTUARY
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
17.0
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > FLORIDA
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
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CMGP
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Geology
Marine Geology
Seafloor
Sidescan-Sonar
Surficial Sediments
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
WHSC
Woods Hole Science Center
benthic
field activity serial number 05001
field activity serial number 06001
geologic interpretation
geologic mapping
habitat
interpreted seafloor facies
oyster beds
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2006
Apalachicola Bay
Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
St. George Sound
United States
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General
CMECS
Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard
Geoform Component
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DOC/NOAA/NOS/OCM > Office of Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
2017-04-24
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Cite As: Office for Coastal Management, [Date of Access]: Benthic Habitats and Surficial Geology of Apalachicola Bay, Florida 2006 Geoform [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/47874.
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.
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Access Constraints: None
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Use Constraints: None
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Distribution Liability: 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.
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NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP)
NOAA/NMFS/EDM
47874
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/47874.pdf
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NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP)
NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort.
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NOAA Office for Coastal Management
(843) 740-1202
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
coastal.info@noaa.gov
https://coast.noaa.gov
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Website
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page
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ftp://ftp.coast.noaa.gov/pub/benthic/Benthic_Cover_Data/FL_ApalachicolaBay.zip
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Accuracy
The accuracy of this interpretive data layer is dependent on the level of detail of the source material and interpretation procedures for capturing that source. The primary limiting factor for the level of detail of the source is the scale of the remotely sensed data, and positional accuracy, distribution and total number of surficial samples available for the area. The map scale or remotely sensed image resolution determines the level of content that may be extracted from a given source during digitization.
Completeness Report
Interpreted facies were qualitatively compared to ground truth data collected for NOAA in 1999. No quantitative comparison was conducted.
Conceptual Consistency
Topology was created for these polygons to identify/verify/and fix the following rules:
1) Polygons must not have gaps. All data gaps less than 15 m across were automatically fixed. A total of 5 errors were identified and fixed
2) Polygons must not overlap. No errors were found.
This data layer was digitized from visual interpretations using ArcView 3.3. Shapefile was digitized at a zoom scale of 1:5000 or greater. Each polygon was digitized and given one of 11 attributes to describe the general composition of that unit.
2006-12-21T00:00:00
Completed shapefile was imported to a polygon feature class. Topological rules were built to identify and fix any gaps or overlaps between adjacent polygons.
2007-01-02T00:00:00
Resulting feature class was visually reviewed to identify and edit any polygons that did not extend to the border of the sidescan sonar.
2007-01-25T00:00:00
Exported feature class from personal geodatabase to a shapefile and projected to geographic.
2007-07-01T00:00:00
Original USGS Surficial Geology classes were cross-walked into the Florida System for Classifying Habitats in Estuarine and Marine Environments (SCHEME). All surficial geology classes translated smoothly into SCHEME. Descriptive information was captured in the Modifiers field. No information or data records were lost during this process. Geoform attributes not captured in the SCHEME hierarchy have been added as modifiers (ex. tidal inlet).
2012-02-01T00:00:00
The data were converted from a single ESRI polygon shapefile classified according to the System for Classifying Habitats in Estuarine and Marine Environments (SCHEME) to the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) 2012 format (which can be found at https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/cmecs-crosswalk) which produces separate geoform, geoform, and geoform feature layers from the original input benthic habitat dataset. This geoform feature layer contains CMECS geoform component attributes where an "Equal" or "Nearly Equal" SCHEME value was present in the original data. Polygons for which no geoform information was present have been removed. No other changes to the original polygon boundaries or any other alterations of the original SCHEME data were made during this process.
2015-01-01T00:00:00