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Western Region Coastal and Marine Geology Program Site for Western Region Coastal and Marine Geology Program conducting scientific research in the coastal and offshore areas of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, and other US Pacific Islands. (Score: 1.323)
Coastal and Marine Geology Program interactive map server Interactive map server for viewing and creating maps using available coastal and marine geology data sets for offshore and coastal U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico with links to available data and metadata that can be downloaded. (Score: 1.000)
Sea-floor mapping technology Integrated shipboard data collection, processing, and archival system for digital sidescan-sonar and seismic data used in mapping the inner continental shelf. (Score: 1.000)
Seabed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) Link to PDF fact sheet describing the system that collects images and sediment samples in coastal regions. (Score: 1.000)
Bering and Chukchi Sea databases bathymetry coverages Downloadable files of digital bathymetry of U.S. waters, the Bering and Chukchi Seas, Bering Strait, and Gulf of Anadyr in polygon ARC/INFO coverages generated from both digital and paper bathymetry sources developed to support marine research. (Score: 0.701)
Whales and walrus: tillers of the seafloor Report on seafloor marks in the Northeast Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea that were identified as pits and furrows caused by whales and walruses in the process of feeding on bottom crustaceans. (Score: 0.701)
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Geology Field Center Site with links to projects of the field center of the Woods Hole Coastal Marine Geology Program on underwater areas between shorelines and the deep ocean, off the U.S. East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and in parts of the Caribbean and Great Lakes. (Score: 0.658)
GLORIA Mapping Program GLORIA is a digital sidescan sonar capable of producing digital image maps of the seafloor from reflected sound waves. Site includes description of digital processing, mosaiking, and links to samples of image maps. (Score: 0.653)
U.S. Atlantic East Coast Atlantic East Coast interactive map with GIS datasets and sonar imagery. (Score: 0.612)
Gulf of Mexico continental mapping GUlf of Mexico continental slope interactive map with GIS datasets and sonar imagery. (Score: 0.571)
Hydrates cruise in the Gulf of Mexico Investigation of the upper- and middle continental slope of the Mississippi Canyon, including the Gulf of Mexico, for the distribution of gas-hydrate deposits with links to a DEM image map, bathymetry data, and research technology. (Score: 0.571)
usSEABED, Gulf of Mexico seabed samples Gulf of Mexico seabed samples interactive map. (Score: 0.571)
Pacific Seafloor Mapping Project Homepage for the Pacific Seafloor Mapping Project with links to images, downloadable data, applications, fly-by movies, products, publications, and contacts for studies of San Francisco Bay, Puget Sound, Lake Tahoe, and other Pacific areas. (Score: 0.554)
usSEABED - West coast seabed samples United States West Coast seabed samples interactive map (Score: 0.554)
Sea-floor morphology between Ao Nuevo and Santa Cruz, California Report with preliminary seafloor map displaying submarine rock exposures found along the northern part of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, extent based on side-scan sonar records, seismic-reflection records, and underwater video. (Score: 0.424)
Multibeam mapping of the West Florida Shelf, Gulf of Mexico Georeferenced high-resolution mapping of bathymetry of the West Florida Shelf, Gulf of Mexico in the study of areas suspected to be critical benthic habitats for fisheries. Includes links to images, data, metadata, and ArcExplorer TIFF files. (Score: 0.416)
Continental shelf GIS for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: map view selection Interactive maps of the continental shelf of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary with GIS layers for sediment data, bathymetry, geology, bathymetry, sonar imagery, and tectonics. (Score: 0.412)
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