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Cape Cod Bay: continuous bathymetry and topography terrain model of the Massachusetts coastal zone and continental shelf, (32-bit GeoTIFF, UTM 19 NAD 83, NAVD 88 vertical datum).

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Start Date
1933
End Date
2016

Citation

Andrews, B.D., Baldwin, W.E., Sampson, D.W., and Schwab, W.C., 2018, Continuous bathymetry and elevation models of the Massachusetts coastal zone and continental shelf (ver. 3.0, December 2019): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F72806T7.

Summary

Integrated terrain models covering 16,357 square kilometers of the Massachusetts coastal zone and offshore waters were built to provide a continuous elevation and bathymetry terrain model for ocean planning purposes. The area is divided into the following four geographical areas to reduce file size and facilitate publishing: Massachusetts Bay from the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border south to Provincetown and Scituate and east to Stellwagen Bank; Cape Cod Bay from Provincetown to Scituate and south to Hyannis; Buzzards Bay from the Cape Cod Canal southwest to the State border including the Elizabeth Islands and extending north to Fall River and Mount Hope Bay; and Nantucket and Vineyard Sounds, from Hyannis south to the border of [...]

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Purpose

Provide a continuous surface starting in the offshore waters and working inshore to the shoreward extent of the Massachusetts Coastal Zone that will be used as a regional planning framework. This model, used in conjunction with the related source dataset shapefile will also 1) Provide an inventory of the most recent elevation and bathymetry datasets within the Massachusetts Coastal Zone and offshore water, and 2) Identify areas of the offshore waters that are only covered by historical lead line soundings and should be updated using new survey methods.
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December 27, 2019: The CapeCodBay_10m.tif file that was originally uploaded to ScienceBase on February 5, 2018, was the incorrect version. The “CCBayTer” described in Processing Step 8 had been updated prior to publication, and the incorrect version of the “CapeCodBay_10m.tif” was uploaded to ScienceBase.

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