Vehicle and sonde data from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey of Musquash Marine Protected Area

The Coastal Environmental Baseline Program is a multi-year Fisheries and Oceans Canada initiative designed to work with Indigenous and local communities and other key parties to collect coastal environmental data at six pilot sites across Canada (Port of Vancouver, Port of Prince Rupert, Lower St. Lawrence Estuary, Port of Saint John, Placentia Bay, and Iqaluit). The goal of the Program is to gather local information in these areas in effort to build a better understanding of marine ecological conditions. The Maritimes region has developed a habitat classification program to align with the oceanographic interests and data needs of local communities and stakeholders, with the goal of sharing this information via open data. In 2020, a habitat survey in the lower Musquash Marine Protected Area (MPA) was undertaken to further develop this project, using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) equipped with high-frequency (450 kHz) side scan sonar to build a habitat map of the MPA. This dataset includes mosaicked series of sonar images (raw & position-corrected versions), covering roughly 6 km2 of marine and intertidal areas in the Musquash MPA. Doppler Velocity logs and mission-specific files for each survey are also included, along with detailed methodological documentation. These data were generated from 17 separate survey missions that were completed in August, September and October 2020.

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Date ( RI_366 )
2020-08-01
Date ( RI_367 )
2022-02-08
RI_414
  Government of Canada;Fisheries and Oceans Canada;Coastal Ecosystem Science Division (CESD) - O'Laughlin, Casey ( Coastal Environmental Baseline Program, Field Operations & Data Management )
125 Marine Science Drive , St. Andrews , New Brunswick , E5B 0E4 , Canada
Status
completed; complété RI_593
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned; nonPlanifié RI_542
Keywords
  • automated underwater vehicle
  • sonar
  • Doppler velocity log
  • salinity
  • water temperature
  • i3XO EcoMapper
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Estuaries
  • Coastal waters
  • Oceanography
  • Ecosystems
  • Environment
  • Habitats
  • Wetlands
Classification
unclassified; nonClassifié RI_484
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
textTable; texteTable RI_637
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Oceans
Begin date
2020-08-01
End date
2020-10-21
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
Distribution format
  • CSV ( NA )

  • TIFF ( NA )

  • ESRI REST ( 2.7.0 )

  • FGDB/GDB ( 2.7.0 )

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Data Acquisition Assembly and Distribution / Acquisition, assemblage et distribution de donnée ( )
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, PO Box 1006 , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
OnLine resource
Data Dictionary ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;CSV;eng,fra

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Vehicle and sonde data from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey of Musquash Marine Protected Area ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

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Vehicle and sonde data from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey of Musquash Marine Protected Area ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

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Vehicle and sonde data from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey of Musquash Marine Protected Area ( HTTPS )

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Vehicle and sonde data from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey of Musquash Marine Protected Area ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng

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Vehicle and sonde data from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey of Musquash Marine Protected Area ( HTTPS )

Dataset;TIFF;eng

OnLine resource
Vehicle and sonde data from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey of Musquash Marine Protected Area ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

File identifier
8b2ab772-036e-49c6-b35d-e5c08ce3ef69 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-02-06T12:39:19.208Z
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Coastal Ecosystem Science Division - CESD Data Request / DSEC Demande de donnés (DFO/MPO) ( Data Manager )
125 Marine Science Drive , St. Andrews , New Brunswick , E5B 0E4 , Canada
 
 

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