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  NIWA A-Y surface sediment data standardised dbseabed format

NIWA surface sediment data from the NZOI A-Y stations that have been standardised to the dbseabed format. NIWA samples have been processed and QC'd by INSTAAR University of Colorado, Boulder. dbSEABED creates unified, detailed mappings of the materials that make the seafloor by efficiently integrating thousands of individual datasets. The goal is to bring decades of seabed information - and today's information - from marine geology, biology, engineering and surveys into one seabed mapping that can fulfil the community needs for ocean-bottom information on many spatial scales. The system deals with seabed texture, composition, acoustic properties, colour, geology and biology. Quality assurance is achieved by checks on data at data entry, by error-trapping in the data-processing software, and by working the data intensively in various collaborative research programs. dbSEABED was devised to be robust in an inexact and incomplete information environment - marine geosciences. There are two versions of the data available: (1) the archives data, which are available as MS Excel spreadsheets - one for each letter of the A-Z station registers; (2) NIWA nzSeabed standard data, which is the same standard afters being standardised by dbSeabed and are available as ASCII text files. The data are available at either Q:\Ocean_Geology\Sediment%20samples/ or file://niwa.local/groups/wellington/Ocean_Geology/Sediment%20samples/
 
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. . https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/cd65ed69-ca0c-91ab-6ee0-98eab9a65dfc
 

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Date ( Creation )
2015-02-10
Date ( Revision )
Purpose
These data are appropriate for plotting and further analyses. 
Credit
Helen Bostock, Kevin Mackay, Chris Jenkins (INSTAAR) 
Status
Completed  

  Principal investigator

NIWA  

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NIWA  
Spatial representation type
Text, table  
Topic category
  • Oceans
Description
New Zealand Region 
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  • sediment analysis, seafloor
Classification
Restricted  
Language
English  
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Data can be accessed at either Q:\Ocean_Geology\Sediment%20samples/ or file://niwa.local/groups/wellington/Ocean_Geology/Sediment%20samples/. Contact the authors or the Ocean Sediment Group Manager for access

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Metadata identifier
cd65ed69-ca0c-91ab-6ee0-98eab9a65dfc

Language
English  
Character encoding
UTF8  

  Custodian

NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research  
301 Evans Bay Parade
Hataitai
Wellington
6021
New Zealand
 
Resource scope
Dataset  
Date info ( Creation )
2015-05-12T09:09:37
Title
ISO 19115-3 
 
 

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