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Report for W00242 Locality: North Pacific Ocean Sublocality: Vicinity of French Frigate Shoals State(s) or Region(s): Hawaii Start Date: 2005-04-08 End Date: 2005-04-19 These data are not to be used for navigation. For navigation please refer to NOS Nautical Charts. Downloads may take a long time, depending on file size and data transfer rates. Download All Products for W00242
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Survey Products

Descriptive Report and Metadata Documents

NOAA/NOS Descriptive Report
Products listed in the project descriptive report (DR) may not reflect final products available through NCEI.
W00242.pdf	108.1KB	The document may be read using a free Adobe Reader.
NOAA/NOS ISO metadata record
W00242 View / Download W00242.xml		Usually presented as an XML document, which captures the basic characteristics of HSMDB metadata verified from H10000 (1982) to the present as well as F00200 (1965) to the present.

Bathymetry

Survey products may use different units, datums or projections than the associated survey. Please consult product-specific metadata for additional details.
Bathymetric Attributed Grid (BAG) Data
The BAG format is a gridded, multi-dimensional bathymetric data file (see Open Navigation Surface). Readable with various applications such as the free CARIS Easy View, ESRI ArcGIS or open source GDAL. The BAGXYZ files are ascii representations of the BAG data in XYZ format, but do not include uncertainty.
W00242_MB_4m_MLLW_3of5.bag	1.85MB
W00242_MB_1m_MLLW_1of5.bag	75.12MB
W00242_MB_8m_MLLW_4of5.bag	345.3KB
W00242_MB_2m_MLLW_2of5.bag	112.25MB
W00242_MB_16m_MLLW_5of5.bag	134.1KB
NOAA/NOS Sounding Data
Download data from the Point Store database via NEXT (NCEI Extract System). Point soundings are from the survey Smooth Sheet or of similar density. Depths in meters. Vertical datum is (converted to) Mean Lower Low Water if possible. Please check the associated metadata to confirm the correct datums. The data file format is : SurveyID, Long, Lat, Depth.
W00242		XYZ format.

Images

GeoImagePDF
W00242_GeoImage.pdf	9.42MB	NOAA/NOS Layered GeoSpatial Image PDF File. Created by NOS to include chart and survey layers in a georeferenced pdf format.

Survey Metadata

Survey Summary

Locality Sublocality State or Region North Pacific Ocean Vicinity of French Frigate Shoals Hawaii

Start Date End Date Approval Date 2005-04-08 2005-04-19 2012-10-31

Project Number Project Name Purpose OSD-AHB-12 Outside Source Data Surveys - 2012 Update Nautical Chart(s)

Source of Original Data and License Information

License Information This data is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0-1.0). View the license deed. View the legal code.

Reference System Information

Vertical Datum Horizontal Datum Projection Scale Mean Lower Low Water World Geodetic System (WGS) 1984 Projected UTM 3 10000

Survey Tide Stations COOPS Tide Station ID Not Available

Affected Products

ENCs RNCs 540 530 50 19402 19401 19019 19016 19007

Survey Equipment

Vessel(s) Chief(s) of Party NOAA Ship HI'IALAKAI R/V AHI

Manufacturer Model Instrument Type Seabird-Seacat SBE 19 CTD Profiler Conductivity Temperature and Depth Satellite DGPS Simrad EM3002 MBES Simrad EM3000D MBES Reson SeaBat 8101 MBES CNAV 2050M DGPS Receiver Satellite DGPS Applanix TSS POS/MV 320 GPS Receiver Satellite GPS

Source Data at NCEI

Data in Archive Size (in GB) Date Archived Data Types Surveyed Raw and Processed 26.412 2012-12-06 BATHYMETRY