U.S. Gulf of Mexico Region
Internet Map Server sites

• Gulf of Mexico Region - This Web Mapping Application site includes data released for the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean region, usSEABED project and GLORIA project. Additional backscatter and sidescan sonar mosaics completed from various USGS/CMGP Gulf of Mexico seafloor mapping surveys have also been integrated into the web mapping application.
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• Northern Gulf of Mexico - The Northern Gulf of Mexico Web Mapping Application site contains data generated from USGS surveys conducted during 2005, 2006 and 2007 in the area of Apalachicola Bay, Florida to seaward of the Chandeleur Islands in eastern Louisiana.  This website provides a link to the USGS/CMGP interactive map server that allows on-line viewing of the acoustic backscatter and shaded relief swath bathymetry images generated from the collected data.
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• National Assessment of Shoreline Change Web Mapping Application
- A national perspective for the National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project. This Internet Map Server site includes individual data layers compiled in support of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Assessment of Shoreline Change Program. Data layers include short- and long-term shoreline change evaluations, and historical and modern shorelines.
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• U.S. usSEABED <Under Construction>
- This internet mapping site includes data released for the U.S. Atlantic Coast from the usSEABED project.  Data layers include word-based and lab-based analyses of surficial and subbottom sampling. These data have been released via usSEABED: Atlantic Coast Surficial Sediment Data Release (USGS Digital Data Series 118).
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• GLORIA Mapping Program
  - This internet mapping site includes GLORIA (Geologic LOng-Range Inclined Asdic) sidescan imagery of the entire deep-water portion (more than 200 meters) of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) mapped during the 8 years of data collection. The images are from each of the geographic areas covered: East Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Puerto Rico, West Coast, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Gulf of Alaska, Hawaiian Ridge, Johnston Island, Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll. These data have been released via GLORIA Sidescan-Sonar Imagery for Parts of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and Adjacent Areas (USGS Open File Report 2010-1332).
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• GLORIA mapping program - Includes a composite mosaic of the 16 GLORIA sidescan sonar mosaics collected and processed by the USGS from 1982 - 1985, bathymetry contours and GLORIA interpretation. Additional backscatter and sidescan sonar mosaics completed from various USGS/CMGP Gulf of Mexico seafloor mapping surveys have also been integrated into the mapserver. This map site also include a number of additional data layers such as usSEABED surficial sediment data and Gas Hydrates assessments that cover the extent of the Gulf of Mexico.
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• U.S. Gulf of Mexico Shoreline Change - This Internet Map Server site includes individual data layers compiled in support of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Assessment of Shoreline Change Program. Data layers include short- and long-term shoreline change evaluations, and historical and modern shorelines released via The National Assessment of Shoreline Change: A GIS Compilation of Vector Shorelines and Associated Shoreline Change Data for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (OFR 2004-1089).

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• Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean usSEABED - This Internet Map Server site includes data released for the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean region usSEABED project. Data layers include word-based and lab-based analyses of surficial and subbottom sampling. These data have been released via usSEABED: Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean (Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands) Offshore Surficial Sediment Data Release (USGS Data Series 146).
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• Sarasota, FL - Sidescan sonar image, bathymetry images and contours, surficial samples acquired during the USGS/CMGP West-Central Florida Coastal Studies Project. Additional data layers include researchers interpretive GIS data layers.
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• Mississippi Fan - GLORIA and SeaMARC 1A sidescan sonar mosaics, cores and interpretive GIS data layers that were used in several publications describing processes associated with recent deposition on the Mississippi Fan.
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• Pulley Ridge Deep Coral Reef Region - Pulley Ridge is a chain of drowned barrier islands located on the Florida Platform in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico about 250 km west of Cape Sable, Florida. Data presented in this Internet Map Server site includes published data layers acquired by the U.S. Geological Survey as a part of study of the southern portion of Pulley Ridge in support of Coral Reefs Studies.
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• West Florida Shelf - Sidescan sonar, swath bathymetry and acoustic backscatter images of the West Florida Shelf, Mississippi-Alabama outer continental shelf and head of De Soto Canyon that were released in several USGS publications. Interpretive data layers for the Twin Ridges sidescan sonar mosaic are also included.
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• Louisiana Continental Slope - GLORIA sidescan sonar mosaic, bathymetry and various GIS data layers.
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• Northwestern Gulf of Mexico - The Outer Continental Shelf, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Internet Map Server site contains data generated from USGS surveys conducted during 1997 and 2002 in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) located about 110 miles off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana.  This website provides a link to the USGS/CMGP FGBNMS interactive map server that allows on-line viewing of the acoustic backscatter and shaded relief swath bathymetry images generated from the collected multibeam echosounder.  Available data are from 12 regions of interest including Alderdice, Sonnier, Geyer, Bright, Rankin, Jakkula, McNeil, Bouma, McGrail, Rezak, and Sidner Banks.
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