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<abstract>"The Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (SEAMAP) is a State-Federal program for the collection, management and dissemination of fishery-independent data (data that does not depend on reporting by the fishing industries) in the Southeastern U.S." The data set contains miscellaneous descriptive seabed data obtained by varied systems in many surveys to various degrees of accuracy.</abstract>
<purpose>Habitat mapping</purpose>
</descript>
<citation>
<citeinfo>
<origin>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</origin>
<pubdate>1997</pubdate>
<title>NOAA: Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (SEAMAP) data</title>
<ftname Sync="TRUE">seamap</ftname>
<geoform>tabular digital data</geoform>
<onlink>
</onlink></citeinfo>
</citation>
<timeperd>
<current>ground condition</current>
<timeinfo>
<rngdates>
<begdate>1995</begdate>
<enddate>1997</enddate>
</rngdates>
</timeinfo>
</timeperd>
<status>
<progress>In work</progress>
<update>Unknown</update>
</status>
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<keywords>
<theme>
<themekt>General</themekt>
<themekey>descriptions</themekey>
<themekey>seabed</themekey>
<themekey>seafloor</themekey>
</theme>
<place>
<placekt>General</placekt>
<placekey>Atlantic coast</placekey>
<placekey>East Coast</placekey>
<placekey>United States</placekey>
</place>
</keywords>
<accconst>None.</accconst>
<crossref>
<citeinfo>
<title>Distribution of Hard-Bottom Habitats on the Continental Shelf</title>
<origin>T.H. Perkins</origin>
<origin>H.A. Norris</origin>
<origin>D.T. Wilder</origin>
<origin>S.D. Kaiser</origin>
<origin>D.K. Camp</origin>
<origin>R.E. Matheson, Jr.</origin>
<pubdate>1997</pubdate>
<othercit>Final report submitted to the Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program Bottom Mapping Workgroup and the National Marine Fisheries Service pursuant to National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Award No. NA47FS0036.</othercit>
<title>Distribution of Bottom Habitats on the Continental Shelf off North Carolina</title>
<origin>M.L. Moser</origin>
<origin>S.W. Ross</origin>
<origin>S.W. Snyder</origin>
<origin>R.C. Dentzman</origin>
<pubdate>1995</pubdate>
<othercit>Final report submitted to the Marine Resources Research Institute, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources for the Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program Bottom Mapping Workgroup</othercit>
</citeinfo>
</crossref>
<datacred>This CD was designed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI). This project was administered by the Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program-South Atlantic (SEAMAP-SA) with funds provided by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Award Nos. NA47FS0036 and NA27FS0050. The data contained in the CD were cataloged by the following agencies: - North Carolina Natioinal Estuarine Research Reserve - Division of Coastal Management - South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department- - Marine Resources Research Institute - Georgia Southern University - Applied Coastal Research Laboratory - Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Florida Marine Research Institute</datacred>
<ptcontac>
<cntinfo>
<cntperp>
<cntper>SEAMAP-SA</cntper>
<cntorg>Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission</cntorg>
</cntperp>
<cntpos>Program Administrator</cntpos>
<cntaddr>
<addrtype>mailing and physical address</addrtype>
<address>1444 Eye Street NW, 6th Floor</address>
<city>Washington</city>
<state>District of Columbia</state>
<postal>20005</postal>
<country>USA</country>
</cntaddr>
<cntvoice>202-289-6400</cntvoice>
</cntinfo>
</ptcontac>
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<browsen>seamap.jpg</browsen>
<browsed>Image map showing extent and distribution of this data layer coverage</browsed>
<browset>JPEG</browset>
</browse>
<natvform Sync="TRUE">Shapefile</natvform>
<useconst>Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution.</useconst></idinfo>
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<metstdv Sync="TRUE">FGDC-STD-001-1998</metstdv>
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<metc>
<cntinfo>
<cntperp>
<cntper>Jamey Reid</cntper>
<cntorg>U.S. Geological Survey</cntorg>
</cntperp>
<cntpos>IT Specialist (Data Management)</cntpos>
<cntaddr>
<addrtype>mailing and physical address</addrtype>
<address>384 Woods Hole Rd.</address>
<city>Woods Hole</city>
<state>MA</state>
<postal>02543-1598</postal>
</cntaddr>
<cntvoice>(508) 548-8700 x2204</cntvoice>
<cntfax>(508) 457-2310</cntfax>
<cntemail>jreid@usgs.gov</cntemail>
</cntinfo>
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<metac>None</metac>
<metuc>Metadata was written by a user of this dataset. Information on the website is authoritative and supercedes any information give in this document.</metuc>