A Bathymetric Compilation of South Georgia, 1985-2015

We present a new bathymetric compilation of the greater South Georgia region, here defined by a bounding box of ~900km (45W to 19W) by ~580km (63S to 50S) and covering an area of 530,000 km2. The region includes the South Georgia shelf, the Shag Rock shelf (to the west of South Georgia), the surrounding continental slopes and adjacent deep sea. This bathymetry grid was compiled from a variety of different data sources including multibeam swath bathymetry collected from scientific cruises undertaken by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the Institute of Geophysics, University of Texas. The grid has been constructed using a layered hierarchy dependent on accuracy of each dataset. The data is available as a 100m resolution GeoTIFF, ESRI ascii grid or KMZ file of elevation data along with a shapefile indicating the spatial coverage of all the contributing datasets. This work was supported by the National Environmental Research Council (grant number NE/L002531/1). For further information regarding the creation of this dataset please refer to doi:10.1038/srep33163.

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Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01037
Date (Publication)
2020-01-29
Identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01037
Custodian
  British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
  Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey, NERC, Cambridge, UK. - Hogg, O. T., Huvenne, V. A., Griffiths, H. J., Dorschel, B., and Linse, K.
High Cross, Madingley , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
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Keywords
  • NDGO0001
NERC OAI Harvesting
  • NERC_DDC
GCMD Parameter Valids
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Bathymetry
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Continental Margins
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Seafloor Topography
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Seamounts
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Submarine Canyons
BAS Free-text keywords
  • Bathymetry
  • Multibeam
  • Scotia Sea
  • South Georgia
  • Southern Ocean
Use limitation

This data is covered by a UK Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)

Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy.asp), and the following conditions:

1. To cite both the data and literature references in any publications that use this data.

DATA REFERENCE:

Hogg, O. T., Huvenne, V. A., Griffiths, H. J., Dorschel, B., and Linse, K. 2016. A Bathymetric Compilation of South Georgia, 1985-2015. Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey, NERC, Cambridge, UK . doi:10.5285/ce8bf6be-4b5f-454c-9165-73ab4c3baf23.

LITERATURE REFERENCE:

Hogg, O. T., Huvenne, V. A., Griffiths, H. J., Dorschel, B., and Linse, K. (2016): Landscape mapping at sub-Antarctic South Georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large‐scale marine protected areas, Scientific Reports, 6, 1-15, doi:10.1038/srep33163.

2. The user recognizes the limitations of data and will not use this data for navigation purposes. Use of the data is at the users'' own risk, and there is no warranty as to the quality or accuracy of any data, or the fitness of the data for your intended use. The data are not necessarily fully quality assured and cannot be expected to be free from measurement uncertainty, systematic biases, or errors of interpretation or analysis, and may include inaccuracies in error margins quoted with the data.
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This data is covered by a UK Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)

Further by downloading this data the user acknowledges that they agree with the NERC data policy (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy.asp), and the following conditions:

1. To cite both the data and literature references in any publications that use this data.

DATA REFERENCE:

Hogg, O. T., Huvenne, V. A., Griffiths, H. J., Dorschel, B., and Linse, K. 2016. A Bathymetric Compilation of South Georgia, 1985-2015. Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey, NERC, Cambridge, UK . doi:10.5285/ce8bf6be-4b5f-454c-9165-73ab4c3baf23.

LITERATURE REFERENCE:

Hogg, O. T., Huvenne, V. A., Griffiths, H. J., Dorschel, B., and Linse, K. (2016): Landscape mapping at sub-Antarctic South Georgia provides a protocol for underpinning large‐scale marine protected areas, Scientific Reports, 6, 1-15, doi:10.1038/srep33163.

2. The user recognizes the limitations of data and will not use this data for navigation purposes. Use of the data is at the users'' own risk, and there is no warranty as to the quality or accuracy of any data, or the fitness of the data for your intended use. The data are not necessarily fully quality assured and cannot be expected to be free from measurement uncertainty, systematic biases, or errors of interpretation or analysis, and may include inaccuracies in error margins quoted with the data.
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Elevation
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Oceans
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1985
End date
2015
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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Distributor
  Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
OnLine resource
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33163
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dataset Dataset

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INSPIRE / Conformity_001

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No
Statement
Please refer to the literature reference, doi:10.1038/srep33163, for full details on the quality of the dataset.
File identifier
GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01037 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2020-01-29
Metadata standard name
NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Dataset URI
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01037
 
 

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