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Metadata: AUTOSUB Science Missions Thematic Programme - interdisciplinary data-set demonstrating the usefulness of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
Abstract:
This data set comprises hydrographic measurements including temperature, salinity, fluorescence, attenuance, dissolved oxygen concentrations and current velocities. Water samples were also collected for salinity and geochemical analysis, and the data set also includes bathymetric, sediment and upper ocean turbulence measurements. The data were collected over six Science Missions at the Strait of Sicily, West Coast of Scotland (Loch Etive and Loch Fyne), North-East Scotland and Shetland Islands, North Weddell Sea, Isles of Scilly, Southern North Sea (Norfolk Bank) over the period 19 April 1999 – 25 May 2001. The data were collected by both shipboard sensors and those attached to the Autosub (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) package. Shipboard data collection included deployment of a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) package with attached auxiliary sensors. Lowered acoustic Dopper current profilers (LADCPs) were also attached to the CTD frame, while discrete water samples were collected from the CTD stations. Oceanographic, bathymetric and sediment data were collected along the ship’s track. Autosub measurements included standard environmental parameters and acoustic instruments were used to measure ocean bottom relief at high resolution. A camera was also attached to the vehicle, permitting the collection of detailed photographs of the seabed. The broad aims of the Autosub Programme are the collection of interdisciplinary data sets that cannot be obtained by research ships, and demonstration to the scientific and wider user community of the usefulness of an AUV. Investigators: David A Smeed, Kate Stansfield, Julian Overnell, Kenny D Black, Peter Statham, Chris German, Andrew S. Brierley, Paul G. Fernandes, Mark A. Brandon, Alex Cunningham, Peter Burkill, Glen Tarran, Prof. Mike Collins, Dr George Voulgaris, Dr John Trowbridge, Dr Eugene Terray, Steve A Thorpe and Thomas Osborn. The British Oceanographic Data Centre holds the Autosub navigation files, CTD and ADCP data for each of the missions listed above. The data are contained as high resolution time series. The data are presently being processed and have not been fully quality controlled. The Autosub science missions brought together researchers and engineers from a number of UK institutions, with the project being coordinated by the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
Data holder:
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Use constraints:
Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 34 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | AUTOSUB Science Missions Thematic Programme - interdisciplinary data-set demonstrating the usefulness of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) |
| Alternative title | The purpose of alternative title is to record any additional names by which the dataset may be known. | British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048089 |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 6a31c76fe51a54f99ff1b652946881ef |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | EDMED204 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 1999 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2001 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | asNeeded |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | This data set comprises hydrographic measurements including temperature, salinity, fluorescence, attenuance, dissolved oxygen concentrations and current velocities. Water samples were also collected for salinity and geochemical analysis, and the data set also includes bathymetric, sediment and upper ocean turbulence measurements. The data were collected over six Science Missions at the Strait of Sicily, West Coast of Scotland (Loch Etive and Loch Fyne), North-East Scotland and Shetland Islands, North Weddell Sea, Isles of Scilly, Southern North Sea (Norfolk Bank) over the period 19 April 1999 – 25 May 2001. The data were collected by both shipboard sensors and those attached to the Autosub (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) package. Shipboard data collection included deployment of a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) package with attached auxiliary sensors. Lowered acoustic Dopper current profilers (LADCPs) were also attached to the CTD frame, while discrete water samples were collected from the CTD stations. Oceanographic, bathymetric and sediment data were collected along the ship’s track. Autosub measurements included standard environmental parameters and acoustic instruments were used to measure ocean bottom relief at high resolution. A camera was also attached to the vehicle, permitting the collection of detailed photographs of the seabed. The broad aims of the Autosub Programme are the collection of interdisciplinary data sets that cannot be obtained by research ships, and demonstration to the scientific and wider user community of the usefulness of an AUV. Investigators: David A Smeed, Kate Stansfield, Julian Overnell, Kenny D Black, Peter Statham, Chris German, Andrew S. Brierley, Paul G. Fernandes, Mark A. Brandon, Alex Cunningham, Peter Burkill, Glen Tarran, Prof. Mike Collins, Dr George Voulgaris, Dr John Trowbridge, Dr Eugene Terray, Steve A Thorpe and Thomas Osborn. The British Oceanographic Data Centre holds the Autosub navigation files, CTD and ADCP data for each of the missions listed above. The data are contained as high resolution time series. The data are presently being processed and have not been fully quality controlled. The Autosub science missions brought together researchers and engineers from a number of UK institutions, with the project being coordinated by the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Instrument(s) used to collect data: fluorometers; current meters; radiometers; single-beam echosounders; underwater cameras; benthos samplers; salinity sensor; dissolved gas sensors; metal analysers; bench particle sizers; microstructure sensors; transmissometers; CTD; current profilers; sidescan sonars. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Bathymetry and Elevation |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Snow and ice mass, thickness and extent | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Concentration of suspended particulate material in the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Variable fluorescence parameters | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Vertical velocity of the water column (currents) | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Salinity of the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Phytoplankton taxonomic abundance in water bodies | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents) | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Turbulence in the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Dissolved metal concentrations in the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Raw fluorometer output | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Platform or instrument orientation | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Transmittance and attenuance of the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Seabed photography | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Visible waveband radiance and irradiance measurements in the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Temperature of the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Horizontal spatial co-ordinates | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Side-scan sonar | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Concentration of alkanes in the water column | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | unknown | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Land cover | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Geology | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Geographical grid systems | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Hydrography | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Species distribution | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Oceanographic geographical features | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Elevation | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 62 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 30 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -75 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -60 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
| Individual name | Polly Hadžiabdic | |
| Position name | Head of the BODC Requests Team | |
| Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
| Postal code | L3 5DA | |
| City | Liverpool | |
| Administrative area | Merseyside | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@bodc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
| Position name | Director | |
| Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
| Postal code | L3 5DA | |
| City | Liverpool | |
| Administrative area | Merseyside | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@bodc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre | |
| Position name | Director | |
| Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street | |
| Postal code | L3 5DA | |
| City | Liverpool | |
| Administrative area | Merseyside | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@bodc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +1 (410) 516 7135 | |
| Fax | +1 (410) 516 7933 | |
| Delivery point | 301 Olin Hall, 3400 North Charles Street | |
| Postal code | 21218 | |
| City | Baltimore | |
| Administrative area | Maryland | |
| Country | United States | |
| kgaines@jhu.edu | ||
| URL | http://eps.jhu.edu/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | University of South Carolina, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Coastal Processes & Sediment Dynamics Laboratory | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | + 1 803 777 2549 | |
| Fax | + 1 803 777 6610 | |
| Delivery point | University of South Carolina | |
| Postal code | 29205 | |
| City | Columbia | |
| Administrative area | SC | |
| Country | United States | |
| gvoulgaris@geol.sc.edu | ||
| URL | http://www.geol.sc.edu/gvoulgar/cpsdlab.html | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +1 (508) 457 2000 | |
| Delivery point | 266 Woods Hole Road | |
| Postal code | 02543 | |
| City | Woods Hole | |
| Administrative area | Massachusetts | |
| Country | United States | |
| information@whoi.edu | ||
| URL | http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7142 | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | University of Strathclyde, Department of Physics | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)141 548 3366 | |
| Fax | +44 (0)141 552 2891 | |
| Delivery point | John Anderson Building, 107 Rottenrow | |
| Postal code | G4 0NG | |
| City | Glasgow | |
| Administrative area | Lanarkshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| cath.cheshire@strath.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://phys.strath.ac.uk | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Plymouth Marine Laboratory | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)1752 633 100 | |
| Fax | +44 (0)1752 633101 | |
| Delivery point | Prospect Place, The Hoe | |
| Postal code | PL1 3DH | |
| City | Plymouth | |
| Administrative area | England | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| forinfo@pml.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.pml.ac.uk | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Fisheries Research Services, Aberdeen Marine Laboratory | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)1224 876544 | |
| Fax | +44 (0)1224 295511 | |
| Delivery point | PO Box 101, Victoria Road | |
| Postal code | AB11 9DB | |
| City | Aberdeen | |
| Administrative area | Aberdeenshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| inapplicable | ||
| URL | http://www.marlab.ac.uk | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | British Antarctic Survey | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Delivery point | High Cross, Madingley Road | |
| Postal code | CB3 OET | |
| City | Cambridge | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/our_organisation/eid/pdc/index.php | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Southampton Oceanography Centre | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Delivery point | University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way | |
| Postal code | SO14 3ZH | |
| City | Southampton | |
| Administrative area | Hampshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| inapplicable | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Phone | +44 (0)23 8059 2011 | |
| Fax | +44 (0)23 8059 3059 | |
| Delivery point | National Oceanography Centre, European Way | |
| Postal code | SO14 3ZH | |
| City | Southampton | |
| Administrative area | Hampshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| soes@noc.soton.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Scottish Association for Marine Science | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Postal code | PA37 1QA | |
| City | Argyll | |
| Administrative area | Oban | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| laurence.mee@sams.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.sams.ac.uk | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | National Oceanography Centre, Southampton | |
| Individual name | Unknown | |
| Position name | Unknown | |
| Delivery point | University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way | |
| Postal code | SO14 3ZH | |
| City | Southampton | |
| Administrative area | Hampshire | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| enquiries@noc.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://noc.ac.uk | |
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/products/data/bodc_products/autosub/ |
| Locator name | Name of the web resource | BODC data product |
| Locator function | Code that describes the function of the resource. ISO function code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | order |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | otherRestrictions | |
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | This states any limitations on access to the data and uses free text. | Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence |
| 21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2018-05-18 |
| Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2017-02-01 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2010-09-21 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2018-05-18 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | Version 2.3.8 |