20-Meter Bathymetric Grid (Filtered): Monterey Bay, California, 1997

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Abstract/Contents

Abstract
This raster dataset is a 20-meter resolution grid containing multibeam bathymetry data for Monterey Bay, California. These data have been low-pass filtered. Grids are provided in GCS WGS 84 and UTM Zone 10 (NAD 83) projections, as well ASCII format. This layer is part of the GIS Data of the Monterey Bay collection, a compilation of data and imagery of the Monterey Bay area, including coastline, imagery, and bathymetry.
Purpose
This collection of data provides documented layers of of the Monterey Bay to persons/institutions of interest throughout the research and educational communities. These maps help define the geological variability of the seafloor and provide a detailed framework for future research, monitoring, and management activities.

Description

Type of resource cartographic, software, multimedia
Form Raster Dataset
Place Moss Landing, California, US
Publisher Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Date valid 1997
Publication date 1997
Language English
Digital origin born digital
Map data Scale not given. ; W 122°30ʹ38ʺ--W 121°46ʹ59ʺ/N 37°14ʺ--N 36°29ʹ34ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326

Creators/Contributors

Creator Hatcher, Gerry

Subjects

Subject Continental margins
Subject Bathymetric maps
Subject Multibeam mapping
Subject Digital elevation models
Subject Monterey Bay (Calif.)
Subject 1997
Subject Imagery and Base Maps
Subject Inland Waters
Subject Elevation
Genre Geospatial data
Genre Cartographic dataset

Bibliographic information

Supplemental information

All data are registered to the WGS84 datum with two versions of each feature, image, and grid coverage included in the collection. One is in a Geographic (decimal degrees) coordinate system and the second is in a Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) zone 10 projection. This layer is also provided in ASCII format.

NOTE: To most easily use the grid data, the ArcView Spatial Analyst extension should be installed on your system.

For strict accuracy and hard-copy production requiring feature, grid, and/or image data, the UTM projection coverages should be used. In fact, some ArcView functions will not be available unless the data are displayed in a projection. This is because a Geographic Coordinate System is NOT a projection but rather a spherical coordinate system dealing directly in latitude and longitude. However, at the scale of maps covering Monterey Bay, the errors produced by ignoring this fact are small.
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/cj255mv2780

Access conditions

Use and reproduction
These data are licensed by Stanford Libraries and are available to Stanford University affiliates only. Affiliates are limited to current faculty, staff and students. Non affiliates seeking access should contact the publisher directly. These data may not be reproduced or used for any purpose without permission.
Copyright
Copyright ownership resides with the originator.

Preferred citation

Hatcher, G (1998). 20-Meter Bathymetric Grid (Filtered): Monterey Bay, California, 1997. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/cj255mv2780

Collection

GIS data of the Monterey Bay

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