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    • AFSC/RACE/GAP/Prescott: Norton Sound Shoreline

    Metadata Updated: June 1, 2025

    We assembled approximately 230,000 National Ocean Service (NOS) bathymetric soundings from 39 lead-line and single-beam echosounder hydrographic surveys conducted from 1896 to 2005 in Norton Sound, Alaska. These bathymetry data are available from the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov), which archives and distributes data that were originally collected by the NOS and others. While various bathymetry data have been downloaded previously from NGDC, compiled, and used for a variety of projects, our effort differed in that we compared and corrected the digital bathymetry by studying the original analog source documents - digital versions of the original survey maps, called smooth sheets. Our editing included deleting erroneous and superseded values, digitizing missing values, and properly aligning all data sets to a common, modern datum. We incorporated 3 multibeam surveys, and added an additional 6,992 single-beam soundings from the 2010 Northern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey to fill in where smooth sheet data was lacking. We proofed and digitized 312 cartographic features, comprised mostly of rocks and islets and also digitized 4,305 verbal sediment descriptors, and digitized or adapted 2,142 km of mainland and 837 km of island shoreline.

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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date May 15, 2025
    Metadata Created Date August 25, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date June 1, 2025
    Reference Date(s) 2015 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NMFS AFSC

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date May 15, 2025
    Metadata Created Date August 25, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date June 1, 2025
    Reference Date(s) 2015 (publication)
    Responsible Party (Point of Contact, Custodian)
    Contact Email
    Guid gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:24305
    Access Constraints Cite As: Alaska Fisheries Science Center, [Date of Access]: AFSC/RACE/GAP/Prescott: Norton Sound Shoreline [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/24305., Access Constraints: These data are not to be used for navigation., Use Constraints: These data are not to be used for navigation. We consider this smooth sheet bathymetry, feature, shoreline and sediment compilation a fairly complete first draft. The Mean High Water (MHW) shoreline was hand-digitized off of georeferenced smooth sheets in a GIS.
    Bbox East Long -160.77
    Bbox North Lat 65.62
    Bbox South Lat 62.75
    Bbox West Long -170
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned
    Harvest Object Id be05bb27-6f70-44e1-8bff-48080b6f4c44
    Harvest Source Id 26a29bb9-50b0-47fd-920b-edc74aa6ec76
    Harvest Source Title NMFS AFSC
    Licence 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.
    Lineage unknown
    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-170.0, 62.75], [-160.77, 62.75], [-160.77, 65.62], [-170.0, 65.62], [-170.0, 62.75]]]}
    Progress completed
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 1898
    Temporal Extent End 2010

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