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Canadian National Marine Seismic Data Repository

The Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic and Pacific) has collected marine survey field records on marine expeditions for over 50 years. This release makes available the results of an ongoing effort to scan and convert our inventory of analog marine survey field records (seismic, sidescan and sounder) to digital format. These records were scanned at 300 dpi and converted into JPEG2000 format. Typically, each of these files was between 1 to 2 gbyte in size before compression and compressed by a factor of 10:1. Empirical tests with a number of data sets suggest that there is minimal visual distortion of the scanned data at this level of compression. In this KML file, scanned data are available in a reduced-scale thumbnail format and a compressed full-resolution JPEG2000 format.

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Date ( RI_367 )
2020-07-07
Date ( RI_366 )
2017-05-23
RI_415
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantic - Robert C. Courtney ( Research Scientist )
1 Challenger Drive , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
voice; +01-902-426-5062
RI_413
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantic - Robert C. Courtney ( Research Scientist )
1 Challenger Drive , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
voice; +01-902-426-5062
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantic - Robert C. Courtney ( Research Scientist )
1 Challenger Drive , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
voice; +01-902-426-5062
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
irregular; irrégulier RI_541
GSC Keywords Vocabulary - Thesaurus Thésaurus - vocabulaire de mots-clé de la CGC ( RI_528 )
  • geophysics
  • geology
  • marine
  • earth sciences
  • seismic
Keywords
  • sidescan sonar
Keywords
  • high resolution
Keywords
  • geographic information system
NRCan - GSC - Unspecified - Keywords list Liste de mots-clés - RNCan - CGC - Indéterminé ( RI_528 )
  • sub-bottom sounder
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Geology
  • Geophysics
  • Ocean floor
  • Seismology
Use limitation
No constraint
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
licence; license RI_606
Use constraints
otherRestrictions; autresRestrictions RI_609
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Environment description
Data were compiled into a KML file. WMS was created from content of the KML file.
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thumbnail


Begin date
1959-12-31
End date
2020-08-10 After
Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org/ / EPSG:4326 / 6.14

Spatial representation info

No information provided.
Distribution format
  • WMS ( not applicable )

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantic - Robert C. Courtney ( Research Scientist )
1 Challenger Drive , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
voice; +01-902-426-5062
RI_408
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - Geological Survey of Canada
601 Booth Street , Ottawa , Ontario , K1A 0E8 , Canada
voice; 1 (613) 9950947
http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php
RI_412
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector; Federal Geospatial Platform - Federal Geospatial Platform
voice; 1 (800) 6612638
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada
OnLine resource
Canadian National Marine Seismic Data Repository - French ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
Canadian National Marine Seismic Data Repository - English ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
Canadian National Marine Seismic Data Repository - English ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng

OnLine resource
Canadian National Marine Seismic Data Repository - French ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;fra

OnLine resource
Canadian National Marine Seismic Data Repository - English ( HTTPS )

Dataset;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
Canadian National Marine Seismic Data Repository - French ( HTTPS )

Dataset;WMS;fra

Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622

Absolute external positional accuracy

Measure description
horizontal accuracy is variable; 500 m for older Loran C positioning and NAD27 datum to 100 m post-1992

Quantitative result

Value
100

Absolute external positional accuracy

Measure description
vertical accuracy is 5% of water depth

Quantitative result

Value
50
Description
Title: Creation of the Web Mapping Service (WMS) for the Canadian National Marine Seismic Data Repository -- Description: Our inventory of over 50 years of analog marine survey field paper records were scanned on a continuous roll scanner at 300 dpi and were converted into JPEG2000 format. Typically each of these scanned files were from 1 to 2 gbyte in size before compression, and were compressed by a factor of 10:1. Empirical tests with a number of data sets suggest that there is minimal visual distortion of the scanned data at this level of compression. Scanned data are available in a reduced-scale thumbnail format and a compressed full-resolution JPEG2000 format. Seismic data were compiled into a KML file format. The web mapping service (WMS) was created from the data in the KML file.
Date / Time
2020-05-01T00:00:00.0
RI_416
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantic - Robert C. Courtney ( Research Scientist )
Description
The source of the WMS is seismic, sidescan and sounder data collected by the Geological Survey of Canada.
File identifier
e1fa0090-4b06-e476-5c71-e2326666a4d0 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2020-10-22
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_418
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada - GSC Atlantic - Sheila Hynes ( Section Head and GIS/IM Specialist )
1 Challenger Drive , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 , Canada
voice; 1 (902) 4268355
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Natural Resources Canada; Geological Survey of Canada
 
 

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