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Wong, Florence L. , 2001, MONT95NG, MONT95SG, and MONT95C - Bathymetry grids and contours of the southern Monterey Bay area between Moss Landing and Monterey, California:.This is part of the following larger work.Online Links:
Wong, F.L., and Eittreim, S.E., 2001, Continental Shelf GIS for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-179, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA.Online Links:
This is a Raster data set. It contains the following raster data types:
Planar coordinates are encoded using coordinate pair
Abscissae (x-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 5.0
Ordinates (y-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 5.0
Planar coordinates are specified in Meters
The horizontal datum used is North American Datum of 1983.
The ellipsoid used is GRS1980.
The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378137.0.
The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/298.257.
GRID XMIN YMIN XMAX YMAX MONT95NG -121.94406, 36.68801, -121.79537, 36.78702 MONT95SG -121.99683, 36.60341, -121.81936, 36.69687The geographic extent (in UTM meters) and size (in numbers of columns and rows) of each grid are
GRID XMIN YMIN XMAX YMAX NCOLS NROWS MONT95NG 594336 4060938 607486 4071768 2630 2166 MONT95NG 589719 4051526 605469 4061716 3150 2038The depth values for each grid are
GRID ZMIN ZMAX MEAN STDV MONT95NG -256.9 -16.8 -62.9 26.4 MONT95SG -98.0 -4.0 -61.2 19.8The shaded relief images MNT5ND.TIF and MNT95SD.TIF have the following attributes
Image Format : TIFF Image Depth = 8 Image Type : GRAYSCALE Image Bands = 1 Image Colormap : FALSE Image Compressed : FALSE Image Rotated : FALSE Pixel Size DX = 5.00000 Pixel Size DY = 5.00000The geographic extent (in degrees) of the shaded relief images are
MNT95NSD.TIF: -121.93783, 36.69220, -121.81536, 36.77865 MNT95SSD.TIF: -121.99783, 36.60334, -121.81533, 36.69667Attributes of bathymetry contour data MONT95C
ELEV_M -10 to -250 m by 10-m intervals; mean -80 m LENGTH 0.3 to 4565 m; mean 249 m
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These data are intended for science researchers, students, policy makers, and the general public. The data can be used with geographic information systems (GIS) software to display geologic and oceanographic information about the shallower areas of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
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Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data.
The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of this data, software, or related materials.
This information is not intended for navigational purposes.
Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
(650) 329-5327 (voice)
(650) 329-5190 (FAX)
fwong@usgs.gov
USGS Open-File Report 01-179
Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the source of this information.
Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data.
Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of this data, software, or related materials.
Data format: | depth grids and contours with attributes in format ArcInfo (version 8.0.2) Size: 24 megabytes |
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Network links: |
<http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of01-179> |
(650) 329-5327 (voice)
(650) 329-5190 (FAX)
fwong@usgs.gov