Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 200606 Video imagery, track line navigation files, and log sheets http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pibhmc/ Optical validation data were collected using a Tethered Optical Assessment Device (TOAD), an underwater sled equipped with an underwater digital video camera and lights. Data were collected at the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Kure Atoll to support Benthic Habitat Mapping efforts. This data provides optical observations that will be correlated with bathymetry and acoustic backscatter imagery to develop a benthic habitat map of Kure Atoll. Refer to supplemental information for description of instrument and survey. Kure Atoll, lying at the northwestern end of the Hawaiian Archipelago at 28.5N, 178W, is the northernmost atoll in the world. This classically shape atoll encloses 0.86 sq. km of land including Green Island which has was home to a long range navigation (LORAN) station for decades. The coral reef environment includes 167 sq. km of banks with depths less than 100 m in depth. Optical validation data were collected using the Tethered Optical Assessment Device (TOAD), a sled equipped with underwater video camera and lights. These data are used to provide ground-truth validation that for benthic habitat maps based on multibeam echosounder surveys. Camera sled deployments were conducted at night, usually between 1800 and midnight. Each tow was usually limited to 20 minutes of bottom time at a given location in order to allow for more tows to be conducted in a given work area and thus increase the spatial distribution of the observations. The camera sled was deployed from lower arm of the starboard J-frame on the NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai. At each station the ship was positioned with the wind on the starboard side and drifted downwind; occasional light turns were applied to the ship's screws if necessary to reduce the ship's motion. The TOAD was lowered slowly to the bottom by the deck crew. The operator monitored a live video feed from the camera and began recording data on two video tape recorders. When the camera reached bottom the deck crew was notified by radio to stop lowering. The operator continued to monitor the vehicle and provided commands to raise or lower it to keep the camera just above the bottom. Equipment Description: The TOAD was deployed from the lower arm of the vessel's J-frame. The TOAD is a camera sled based on the Guildline MiniBat model 8820 tow body. The frame has been extensively modified from its original configuration and was configured with a single ROS model 54-00100-13 color underwater video camera and two 500 W DeepSea Power & Light model 710-0400601 underwater lights mounted on the original sled frame. The MiniBat pressure sensor and wing controller was also mounted on the frame but no wings were installed. Cable between the sled and the surface consisted of an underwater electrical cable (cable 1, blue in color) with a separate load-bearing line to support the sled frame. The electrical cable was clipped to the line at regular intervals upon deployment and removed upon recovery. The load-bearing line was led to the starboard capstan on the aft deck. All TOAD surface components were located in the Dry Lab in an equipment rack on the after bulkhead. After operations began we learned that the sled's pressure sensor was not working. Name & address of person collecting data: John Rooney NOAA PIFSC 1125B Ala Moana Blvd Honolulu, HI 98614 Data Files: Video data were recorded on two video tape recorders. The position of the camera sled was recorded using Guildline MiniBat In-Tow data acquisition software. File naming convention: Each tow is given a name consisting of a 3-letter designator for the island area followed by a two-digit year and three-digit tow number. For example, during HI0401 the first tow was called KUR04001. Video tape labels, the navigation files (*.glo) and paper log forms are all annotated with the tow name. If the navigation file is edited during processing the file name has a suffix "a" added. For example, one of the navigation data files is named "KUR04001a.glo". Metadata were extracted from the navigation data and recorded to a file with the same name as the navigation file except that a file type of ".met" was appended; for example, "KUR04001a.glo.met" Time Correlation: All times are based on UTC. Two clocks were set manually synchronized prior to starting data collection; the clock in the video character generator that was used to annotate the video tape and the TOAD data acquisition computer clock was used to annotate the navigation (*.glo) files. These clocks were set to UTC at the beginning of each evening's operations and then compared to one another prior to (and during) each tow. There were problems maintaining synchronization of the TOAD computer clock during this cruise. See the problems section for a description. (Problems with data could be described here.) Resource Description: Digital video images that are geo-referenced to navigation files. 20041006 20041008 ground condition Complete As needed -178.40723 -178.26345 28.47207 28.37527 CoRIS Theme Thesaurus EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Aquatic Habitat > Benthic Habitat EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Mapping EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Photographic Analysis > Videography CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Visual Images > Habitats ISO 19115 Topic Category environment 007 biota 002 None Tethered Optical Assessment Device (TOAD) Underwater video HI0401 CoRIS Place Thesaurus OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands > Kure Atoll (28N178W0001) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Kure Atoll (28N178W0001) OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (28N178W0000) COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (28N178W0000) CoRIS Region NWHI None Please acknowledge the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center as the source of this information. Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) John Rooney mailing and physical address

1125B Ala Moana Blvd.

Honolulu HI 96814 (808) 983-3776 (808) 983-2902 pibhmc@soest.hawaii.edu e-mail preferred Benthic Habitat Mapping Group, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), NOAA Not applicable Unclassified Not applicable Unspecified Complete The horizontal position accuracy for the camera sled position is 100 meters. There are three primary sources of this error. The ship's positioning is based on GPS SPS, often called standalone or non-differential GPS positioning. SPS has a measured accuracy of under 5 meters. The position of the GPS antenna is used; no attempt is made to translocate this position to that of the tow block from which the camera is deployed. The difference between the tow block and the antenna is about 14 meters. The camera sled position is based a layback calculation that use ship's course, the amount of cable out and the camera sled depth to develop an estimate of the camera sled position. The amount of cable deployed is manually entered by the operator during a given camera tow. After a tow was completed the video tape data was reviewed by spot-checking the master and backup tape to verify that data were recorded. Navigation data were copied from the acquisition computer to the data archive. A metadata extractor (gloFilter.py, version 3/06) was run to summarize the navigation data and test for errors. If errors were detected they were corrected or flagged as appropriate and a new data file was made. This file's header was updated to document what type of processing occurred. A metadata file was recorded in the data archive in the same location as the navigation data. Processed navigation data were then read into ArcView 3.2 shapefiles using an ArcView Avenue script named "TOAD.Import.Playback", version 9/25/01, written by Ronald Hoeke. 20041015 0.0001 0.0001 Decimal Degrees D_WGS_1984 WGS_1984 6378137.000000 298.257224 No correction 0.1 meters Attribute Values Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) John Rooney mailing and physical address

1125B Ala Moana Blvd.

Honolulu HI 96814 (808) 983-3776 (808) 983-2902 pibhmc@soest.hawaii.edu e-mail preferred Offline Data These data are not to be used for navigational purposes. NOAA makes no warranty regarding these data, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in these data, nor as a result of the failure of these data to function on a particular system. ASCII Each comma-delimited record contains year, day of year, time, latitude, longitude, velocity north and east, water column depth, vehicle depth, layback, and wing angle. For this data set the fields for vehicle depth and wing angle do not contain useful data. List of navigation files: KUR04001a.glo KUR04002a.glo KUR04003.glo KUR04004a.glo KUR04005a.glo KUR04006a.glo KUR04007a.glo KUR04008a.glo KUR04009.glo KUR04010.glo KUR04011.glo KUR04012a.glo KUR04013.glo KUR04014.glo KUR04015.glo KUR04016.glo KUR04017.glo KUR04018.glo KUR04019.glo CD-ROM ISO 9660 mini digital video List of Video tapes: KUR04001-002, Mini DV, Master KUR04003-004, Mini DV, Master KUR04005-006, Mini DV, Master KUR04007, Mini DV, Master KUR04008-009, Mini DV, Master KUR04010-011, Mini DV, Master KUR04012-013, Mini DV, Master KUR04014-015, Mini DV, Master KUR04016-017, Mini DV, Master KUR04018-019, Mini DV, Master KUR04001-002, Mini DV, Backup KUR04003-004, Mini DV, Backup KUR04005-006, Mini DV, Backup KUR04007, Mini DV, Backup KUR04008-009, Mini DV, Backup KUR04010-011, Mini DV, Backup KUR04012-013, Mini DV, Backup KUR04014-015, Mini DV, Backup KUR04016-017, Mini DV, Backup KUR04018-019, Mini DV, Backup Video cassette tape Mini DV None 20121217 Pacific Islands Benthic Habitat Mapping Center (PIBHMC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) CRED Data Management Team mailing and physical address

1125B Ala Moana Blvd.

Honolulu HI 96814 (808) 983-3776 (808) 983-2902 pibhmc@soest.hawaii.edu e-mail preferred FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 20080502064830 None 20041006 20041008 http://www.coris.noaa.gov/metadata/records/html/cred_toad_kure_hi0401_2004.html 1476