Datasets / CRED Simrad em300 multibeam backscatter data from the banktop and slope environments of Northeast Bank ("Muli" Seamount), American Samoa with 5 meter resolution in GeoTIFF format


CRED Simrad em300 multibeam backscatter data from the banktop and slope environments of Northeast Bank ("Muli" Seamount), American Samoa with 5 meter resolution in GeoTIFF format

Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Issued almost 10 years ago

US
beta

Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

Multibeam backscatter imagery extracted from gridded bathymetry of Northeast Bank ("Muli" Seamount), American Samoa. These data provide coverage between 50 and 5000 meters. The backscatter dataset includes data collected using Simrad EM300 and Simrad EM3002d multibeam sonars. The sonars frequencies are 30 kHz and 300 kHz respectively and the backscatter data from each sonar are processed and gridded separately. These metadata are for the 5 m grid cell size Simrad em300 multibeam backscatter data only.