Title: 100-Meter Bathymetric Contours: Monterey Bay, California, 1997
- Line data
- 1997
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Stanford)
Dates
- Issued: 1997
- Coverage: 1997
Publishers
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Summary
This line shapefile shows contour coverage of Monterey Bay at 100-meter intervals. These data were created from the 20-Meter Bathymetry Grid (bathy20m) using the spatial analyst. Shapefiles for this layer are available in WGS84 and UTM Zone 10 (NAD83) projections and in Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) 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. These data were created as a vector representation of a raster-based bathymetry surface. This collection of data provides documented layers of of the Monterey Bay to persons/institutions of interest throughout the research and educational communities. Hatcher, G. (1998). 100-Meter Bathymetric Contours: Monterey Bay, California, 1997. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/nw621rn3777 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. A GMT version of this layer is also available. 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.
Subjects
- Inland Waters
- Monterey Bay (Calif.)
- Continental margins
- Bathymetric maps
- Multibeam mapping
- Contours (Cartography)
- Imagery and Base Maps
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-122.501442, -121.799942, 37.002254, 36.49839)
- Geometry: BBOX (-122.501442, -121.799942, 37.002254, 36.49839)
Provider
Stanford
Rights
- Access rights: Restricted
Citation
Hatcher, Gerry. 100-Meter Bathymetric Contours: Monterey Bay, California, 1997. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Line data. https://purl.stanford.edu/nw621rn3777
Format
Shapefile
Languages
- English