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issued: 2022-07-28T19:21:27.422098
modified: 2025-11-22T21:04:40.920529

z107sc_video_observations
type: Dataset
contact point: Organization
  fn: Pete Dartnell
keyword: video-sled-observations
keyword: national
keyword: gaviota
keyword: bight
keyword: ckan
keyword: california
keyword: mugu-canyon
keyword: north-america
keyword: santa-barbara-channel
keyword: borderland
keyword: amerigeoss
keyword: transform-continental-margin
keyword: photographic-sampling
keyword: marine-nearshore-subtidal
keyword: cmgp
keyword: coastal-and-marine-geology-program
keyword: usgs
keyword: u-s-geological-survey
keyword: unconsolidated-mineral-substrate
keyword: sea-floor-characteristics
keyword: marine-offshore-subtidal
keyword: oceans
keyword: channel-islands-national-marine-sanctuary
keyword: southern-california
keyword: geoscientificinformation
keyword: seabed
keyword: pacific-ocean
keyword: coal-oil-point
keyword: video-observation
keyword: rock-substrate
keyword: biota
keyword: geoss
keyword: united-states
keyword: usa
keyword: southern-california-bight-ecoregion
keyword: continental-island-shelf
keyword: benthic-habitat
keyword: ecosystem
keyword: geo
keyword: fisheries
keyword: earth-science-gt-biosphere-gt-aquatic-ecosystems-gt-marine-habitat
keyword: underwater-photography
keyword: videos
keyword: hueneme-canyon
keyword: amerigeo
theme: {geospatial}
description: This part of DS 781 presents video observations from cruise Z107SC for the Santa Barbara Channel region and beyond in southern California. The vector data file is included in "z107sc_video_observations.zip," which is accessible from http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/video_observations/data_catalog_video_observations.html. Some of the video observations from cruise Z107SC are published in Scientific Investigations Map 3225, "California State Waters Map Series--Hueneme Canyon and Vicinity, California" (see sheet 6). In addition, some of the video observations will be published in three future California State Waters Map Series SIMs of the region (namely, the Mugu Canyon and Vicinity, Offshore of Coal Oil Point, and Offshore of Gaviota map areas). Between 2006 and 2007, the seafloor in the Mugu Canyon and Vicinity, Hueneme Canyon and Vicinity, Offshore of Coal Oil Point, and Offshore of Gaviota map areas in southern California was mapped by California State University, Monterey Bay, Seafloor Mapping Lab (CSUMB) and by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), using both multibeam echosounders and bathymetric sidescan sonar units (for example, see sheets 1, 2, and 3, SIM 3225, for details). These mapping missions combined to collect bathymetry and acoustic-backscatter data from about the 10-m isobath to out beyond the 3-nautical-mile limit of California's State Waters. To validate the interpretations of sonar data in order to turn it into geologically and biologically useful information, the USGS ground-truth surveyed the data by towing camera sleds over specific locations throughout the region. During the 2008 ground-truth cruise, the camera sled housed two video cameras (one forward looking and the other vertical looking), a high-definition video camera, and an 8-megapixel digital still camera. The video was fed in real time to the research vessel, where USGS and NOAA scientists recorded both the geologic and biologic character of the seafloor into programmable keypads once every …
issued: 2025-11-22T21:04:40.949685
modified: 20201019
spatial: Location

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access URL: https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/
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issued: 2022-07-28T19:21:27.422108
modified: 2025-11-22T21:04:40.920985