California State Waters Map Series--Offshore of Coal Oil Point Web Services

In 2007, the California Ocean Protection Council initiated the California Seafloor Mapping Program (CSMP), designed to create a comprehensive seafloor map of high-resolution bathymetry, marine benthic habitats, and geology within California’s State Waters. The program supports a large number of coastal-zone- and ocean-management issues, including the California Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) (California Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2008), which requires information about the distribution of ecosystems as part of the design and proposal process for the establishment of Marine Protected Areas. A focus of CSMP is to map California’s State Waters with consistent methods at a consistent scale.
The CSMP approach is to create highly detailed seafloor maps through collection, integration, interpretation, and visualization of swath sonar data (the undersea equivalent of satellite remote-sensing data in terrestrial mapping), acoustic backscatter, seafloor video, seafloor photography, high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles, and bottom-sediment sampling data. The map products display seafloor morphology and character, identify potential marine benthic habitats, and illustrate both the surficial seafloor geology and shallow (to about 100 m) subsurface geology. It is emphasized that the more interpretive habitat and geology data rely on the integration of multiple, new high-resolution datasets and that mapping at small scales would not be possible without such data.
This approach and CSMP planning is based in part on recommendations of the Marine Mapping Planning Workshop (Kvitek and others, 2006), attended by coastal and marine managers and scientists from around the state. That workshop established geographic priorities for a coastal mapping project and identified the need for coverage of “lands” from the shore strand line (defined as Mean Higher High Water; MHHW) out to the 3-nautical-mile (5.6-km) limit of California’s State Waters. Unfortunately, surveying the zone from MHHW out to 10-m water depth is not consistently possible using ship-based surveying methods, owing to sea state (for example, waves, wind, or currents), kelp coverage, and shallow rock outcrops. Accordingly, some of the data presented in this series commonly do not cover the zone from the shore out to 10-m depth.
This data is part of a series of online U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) publications, each of which includes several map sheets, some explanatory text, and a descriptive pamphlet. Each map sheet is published as a PDF file. Geographic information system (GIS) files that contain both ESRI ArcGIS raster grids (for example, bathymetry, seafloor character) and geotiffs (for example, shaded relief) are also included for each publication. For those who do not own the full suite of ESRI GIS and mapping software, the data can be read using ESRI ArcReader, a free viewer that is available at http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcreader/index.html (last accessed September 20, 2013).
The California Seafloor Mapping Program is a collaborative venture between numerous different federal and state agencies, academia, and the private sector. CSMP partners include the California Coastal Conservancy, the California Ocean Protection Council, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the California Geological Survey, California State University at Monterey Bay’s Seafloor Mapping Lab, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Center for Habitat Studies, Fugro Pelagos, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, including National Ocean Service–Office of Coast Surveys, National Marine Sanctuaries, and National Marine Fisheries Service), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Geological Survey.
These web services for the Offshore of Coal Oil Point map area includes data layers that are associated to GIS and map sheets available from the USGS CSMP web page at https://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/mapping/csmp/index.html.
Each published CSMP map area includes a data catalog of geographic information system (GIS) files; map sheets that contain explanatory text; and an associated descriptive pamphlet. This web service represents the available data layers for this map area. Data was combined from different sonar surveys to generate a comprehensive high-resolution bathymetry and acoustic-backscatter coverage of the map area. These data reveal a range of physiographic including exposed bedrock outcrops, large fields of sand waves, as well as many human impacts on the seafloor. To validate geological and biological interpretations of the sonar data, the U.S. Geological Survey towed a camera sled over specific offshore locations, collecting both video and photographic imagery; these “ground-truth” surveying data are available from the CSMP Video and Photograph Portal at http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7J1015K. The “seafloor character” data layer shows classifications of the seafloor on the basis of depth, slope, rugosity (ruggedness), and backscatter intensity and which is further informed by the ground-truth-survey imagery. The “potential habitats” polygons are delineated on the basis of substrate type, geomorphology, seafloor process, or other attributes that may provide a habitat for a specific species or assemblage of organisms. Representative seismic-reflection profile data from the map area is also include and provides information on the subsurface stratigraphy and structure of the map area. The distribution and thickness of young sediment (deposited over the past about 21,000 years, during the most recent sea-level rise) is interpreted on the basis of the seismic-reflection data. The geologic polygons merge onshore geologic mapping (compiled from existing maps by the California Geological Survey) and new offshore geologic mapping that is based on integration of high-resolution bathymetry and backscatter imagery seafloor-sediment and rock samplesdigital camera and video imagery, and high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles.
The information provided by the map sheets, pamphlet, and data catalog has a broad range of applications. High-resolution bathymetry, acoustic backscatter, ground-truth-surveying imagery, and habitat mapping all contribute to habitat characterization and ecosystem-based management by providing essential data for delineation of marine protected areas and ecosystem restoration. Many of the maps provide high-resolution baselines that will be critical for monitoring environmental change associated with climate change, coastal development, or other forcings. High-resolution bathymetry is a critical component for modeling coastal flooding caused by storms and tsunamis, as well as inundation associated with longer term sea-level rise. Seismic-reflection and bathymetric data help characterize earthquake and tsunami sources, critical for natural-hazard assessments of coastal zones. Information on sediment distribution and thickness is essential to the understanding of local and regional sediment transport, as well as the development of regional sediment-management plans. In addition, siting of any new offshore infrastructure (for example, pipelines, cables, or renewable-energy facilities) will depend on high-resolution mapping. Finally, this mapping will both stimulate and enable new scientific research and also raise public awareness of, and education about, coastal environments and issues.

Web services were created using an ArcGIS service definition file. The ArcGIS REST service and OGC WMS service include all Offshore Coal Oil Point map area data layers. Data layers are symbolized as shown on the associated map sheets.

2007年，加州海洋保护委员会（California Ocean Protection Council）启动了加州海底测绘计划（California Seafloor Mapping Program, CSMP），旨在为加州州管海域内的高分辨率水深测量、海洋底栖生境与地质情况构建一套完整的海底测绘体系。该计划支持大量海岸带与海洋管理相关工作，包括《加州海洋生物保护法》（California Marine Life Protection Act, MLPA）（加州鱼类与野生动物部，2008年）——该法案要求在海洋保护区（Marine Protected Areas）的设计与提案流程中，提供生态系统分布相关信息。CSMP的核心目标之一，是以统一方法与统一比例尺对加州州管海域开展测绘。

CSMP的实施路径是通过采集、整合、解译与可视化条带声呐数据（海底测绘领域等效于陆地测绘的卫星遥感数据）、声学背散射数据、海底视频、海底摄影、高分辨率地震反射剖面以及底沉积物采样数据，来生成高精度海底地图。其测绘成果可展示海底地貌形态与特征，识别潜在海洋底栖生境，并直观呈现表层海底地质与浅层（约100米以浅）地下地质情况。需要强调的是，更具解译价值的生境与地质数据依赖于多套新型高分辨率数据集的整合，若无此类数据，小比例尺测绘将无法实现。

该实施路径与CSMP的规划，部分参考了《海洋测绘规划研讨会》（Kvitek等人，2006年）的建议。此次研讨会吸引了全州各地的海岸与海洋管理者及科研人员参与，确立了海岸测绘项目的地理优先级，并明确了需覆盖从岸线滩线（定义为平均高潮位，Mean Higher High Water, MHHW）起的陆地区域，直至加州州管海域3海里（5.6公里）的边界。遗憾的是，受海况（如海浪、风力或洋流）、海藻覆盖以及浅海岩层出露等因素影响，采用船载测绘方法无法始终完成从MHHW至10米水深区域的测绘工作。因此，本系列数据中的部分成果通常未覆盖从岸线至10米水深的区域。

本数据集属于美国地质调查局（U.S. Geological Survey, USGS）系列在线出版物的一部分，每一份出版物均包含多幅测绘图幅、若干说明性文本与一份描述性小册子。每幅图幅均以PDF格式发布。每份出版物还附带地理信息系统（Geographic Information System, GIS）文件，其中包含ESRI ArcGIS栅格网格（如水深、海底特征数据）与地理标记图像文件格式（GeoTIFF，如晕渲地貌数据）。对于未配备全套ESRI GIS与测绘软件的用户，可通过免费的ArcReader阅读器读取此类数据，该工具可从http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcreader/index.html 获取（最后访问时间：2013年9月20日）。

加州海底测绘计划是由众多联邦与州级机构、学术界及私营部门共同协作开展的项目。CSMP的合作方包括：加州海岸保护委员会、加州海洋保护委员会、加州鱼类与野生动物部、加州地质调查局、加州州立大学蒙特雷湾分校海底测绘实验室、莫斯兰丁海洋实验室生境研究中心、Fugro Pelagos公司、太平洋天然气和电力公司、美国国家海洋和大气管理局（National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA，包含国家海洋服务局-海岸测绘办公室、国家海洋保护区办公室以及国家海洋渔业局）、美国陆军工程兵团、海洋能源管理局、国家公园管理局以及美国地质调查局。

本科尔油点近海区域的网络服务包含与USGS CSMP官网（https://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/mapping/csmp/index.html）上可获取的GIS文件及测绘图幅相关联的数据图层。

每一份公开出版的CSMP测绘区域均包含地理信息系统（GIS）文件数据集、带说明性文本的图幅以及配套的描述性小册子。本网络服务即代表该测绘区域的可用数据图层。研究人员整合了不同声呐勘测数据，以生成该区域完整的高分辨率水深与声学背散射覆盖数据。这些数据揭示了多样的地貌特征，包括裸露的岩层出露区、大片沙波群，以及诸多人类活动对海底造成的影响。为验证声呐数据的地质与生物学解译结果，美国地质调查局使用牵引式摄像雪橇在特定近海区域开展勘测，采集了视频与摄影图像；此类"实地核查"测量数据可从CSMP视频与影像门户获取，网址为http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7J1015K。"海底特征"数据图层基于水深、坡度、粗糙度与背散射强度对海底进行分类，并通过实地核查勘测图像进一步优化分类结果。"潜在生境"多边形图层则根据底质类型、地貌、海底过程或其他可为特定物种或生物群落提供栖息环境的属性进行划定。本区域还附带代表性的地震反射剖面数据，可用于揭示该区域的地下地层结构与构造。基于地震反射数据，研究人员解译出了年轻沉积物（约2.1万年前末次海平面上升时期沉积的沉积物）的分布与厚度。地质多边形图层整合了陆上地质测绘数据（由加州地质调查局从现有地图汇编而成）与新型近海地质测绘数据——后者基于高分辨率水深与背散射影像、海底沉积物与岩石样本、数码相机与视频图像以及高分辨率地震反射剖面的整合分析。

测绘图幅、小册子与数据集所提供的信息拥有广泛的应用场景。高分辨率水深数据、声学背散射数据、实地核查勘测图像与生境测绘成果，均可为海洋保护区的划定与生态系统修复提供关键数据，从而助力生境特征描述与基于生态系统的管理。诸多测绘成果提供了高分辨率基线数据，这对于监测气候变化、海岸开发或其他驱动因素引发的环境变化至关重要。高分辨率水深数据是模拟风暴与海啸引发的海岸洪水，以及长期海平面上升导致的淹没情况的核心组成部分。地震反射与水深数据有助于刻画地震与海啸源特征，这对海岸带的自然灾害评估工作极为关键。沉积物分布与厚度信息，对于理解局地与区域沉积物运移过程、制定区域沉积物管理规划均不可或缺。此外，任何新型近海基础设施（如管道、电缆或可再生能源设施）的选址，都将依赖高分辨率测绘成果。最后，此类测绘工作将推动并支持全新的科学研究，同时提升公众对海岸环境与相关议题的认知与教育水平。

本网络服务基于ArcGIS服务定义文件创建。ArcGIS REST服务与开放地理空间联盟（OGC）Web地图服务（WMS）包含科尔油点近海区域的所有数据图层。数据图层的符号化方式与配套测绘图幅中的显示方式一致。