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

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Dates

  • Issued: 1997
  • Coverage: 1997

Publishers

  • Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Summary

This raster dataset is a 20-meter resolution grid containing shaded surface relief (hillshade) 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. 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. 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. Hatcher, G (1998). 20-Meter Hillshade Bathymetric Grid (Filtered): Monterey Bay, California, 1997. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/ts626mr4994 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. 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. NOTE: To most easily use the grid data, the ArcView Spatial Analyst extension should be installed on your system.

Subjects

  • Elevation
  • Inland Waters
  • Monterey Bay (Calif.)
  • Continental margins
  • Bathymetric maps
  • Multibeam mapping
  • Digital elevation models
  • Imagery and Base Maps
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-122.5105541, -121.7830119, 37.0039434, 36.4926975)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-122.5105541, -121.7830119, 37.0039434, 36.4926975)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Gerry Hatcher. 20-Meter Hillshade Bathymetric Grid (Filtered): Monterey Bay, California, 1997. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Raster data. https://purl.stanford.edu/ts626mr4994

Format

ArcGRID

Languages

  • English