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
Citation identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01037
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Antarctic Survey

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Custodian

Polar Data Centre; British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council; Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK.

Hogg, O., Huevenne, V., Griffiths, H., Dorschel, B., & Linse, K.

pdc@bas.ac.uk

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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
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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.

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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.

Language
English
Topic category
  • Elevation
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Oceans
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Begin date
1985
End date
2015
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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    Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

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    INSPIRE / Conformity_001

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    INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines
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    See the referenced specification
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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.

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    File identifier
    GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01037 XML
    Metadata language
    English
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    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2020-01-29
    Metadata standard name

    NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
    Metadata standard version

    1.0
    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

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    Dataset URI

    http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01037

     
     

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