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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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Date (Creation)
2017-11-09
Date (Revision)
2017-11-09
Date (Publication)
2017-11-09
Date (released)
2017-11-09
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1.0
Unique resource identifier
https://doi.org/10.5285/ce8bf6be-4b5f-454c-9165-73ab4c3baf23
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GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01037
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https://data.bas.ac.uk/
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NE/L002531/1
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Please cite this item as: Hogg, O., Huevenne, V., Griffiths, H., Dorschel, B., & Linse, K. (2017). A Bathymetric Compilation of South Georgia, 1985-2015 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Polar Data Centre; British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council; Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK.. https://doi.org/10.5285/ce8bf6be-4b5f-454c-9165-73ab4c3baf23
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Author
  British Antarctic Survey - Hogg, Oliver ( Researcher )
Author
  National Oceanography Centre - Huevenne, Veerle ( Researcher )
Author
  British Antarctic Survey - Griffiths, Huw ( Researcher )
Author
  Alfred Wegener Institute - Dorschel, Boris ( Researcher )
Author
  British Antarctic Survey - Linse, Katrin ( Researcher )
Point of contact
  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
  • 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
Theme
  • Bathymetry
  • Multibeam
  • Scotia Sea
  • South Georgia
  • Southern Ocean
Place
  • South Georgia Exclusive Economic Zone
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Oceanographic geographical features
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This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy: https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/nerc/our-policies-and-standards/nerc-data-policy/
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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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1985
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1985
Supplemental Information
It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
Date (Publication)
2008-11-12
Publisher
  European Petroleum Survey Group
https://www.epsg-registry.org/
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::3031
Version
6.18.3

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  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
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Methodology:

Please refer to the 'Data compilation: Bathymetry gridding process' section and 'Supplementary materials' of the literature reference, doi:10.1038/srep33163, for full details on the creation of this dataset.

Data collection:

Please refer to the 'Supplementary materials' of the literature reference, doi:10.1038/srep33163, for further details on the instrumentationand data sources of the contributing datasets.

Data quality:

Please refer to the literature reference, doi:10.1038/srep33163, for full details on the quality of the dataset.

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Metadata standard version
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Point of contact
  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , CB3 0ET , United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
 
 

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Keywords

Bathymetry Multibeam Scotia Sea South Georgia Southern Ocean
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Oceanographic geographical features
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
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

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