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    "tag": 17157,
    "title": "PNG Images of chirp sub-bottom profiler data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey offshore of Fire Island, NY in 2011 (PNG Image Format)",
    "pubdate": "2015",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/F75X2704",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/field_activities\/2011_005_fa\/2011-005-FA_chimages.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mapped approximately 336 square kilometers  of the lower shoreface and inner-continental shelf offshore of Fire Island, New York in 2011 using interferometric sonar and high-resolution chirp seismic-reflection systems.  These spatial data support research on the Quaternary evolution of the Fire Island coastal system and provide baseline information for research on coastal processes along southern Long Island. For more information about the WHCMSC Field Activity, see https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/fan_info.php?fan=2011-005-FA.",
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            "name": "U.S. Geological Survey",
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        {
            "name": "Denny, Jane F.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Schwab, William C.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Baldwin, Wayne E.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Bergeron, Emile M.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Moore, Eric M.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
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        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "575",
            "name": "image collections",
            "scope": "Visible representations of objects or earth properties produced by cameras, spectral instruments, or as graphical representations of measurements."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "707",
            "name": "marine geophysics",
            "scope": "Branch of earth sciences concerned with the physical processes of the oceans and continental margins.  We include here studies of large bodies of brackish and fresh water, such as lakes and rivers."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2054",
            "name": "sub-bottom profiling",
            "scope": "Methods of imaging the structure of sediments below the sea floor  or lakebed using ship-borne or towed sensors with a variety of sound sources."
        },
        {
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            "code": "008",
            "name": "geoscientificInformation",
            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
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    "image": [
        {
            "name": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/data\/field-activity-data\/2011-005-FA\/data\/seismics\/2011-005-FA_chimages.png",
            "description": "Thumbnail image of chirp subbottom data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on the inner-continental shelf offshore of Fire Island, NY, 2011."
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