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Interim Report of the Committee on Exclusive Economic Zone Information Needs Coastal States and Territories (1990) / Chapter Skim
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Coastal States' and Territories' Needs for Seabed Information
Pages 7-10

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From page 7...
... Rhode Island South Atlantic: Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia Gulf/Islands: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, Texas, Virgin Islands Pacific: California, Oregon, Washington Pacific Islands: Guam, Hawaii, Northern Marianas, American Samoa Alaska: Alaska The structure of the questionnaire allowed incomplete, subjective, and impressionistic responses and therefore is not susceptible to rigorous statistical analysis. However, the responses indicate clear trends and the relative importance of uses and information needs.
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From page 8...
... All respondents specified concerns about management of biological resources, particularly fisheries; mineral resources, including placers, aggregates, and phosphates; environmental assessment, including placement and monitoring of waste; shoreline management; and strong but more regionally focused interest in oil and gas development activities. Requirements for data related to pipelines, cables, ocean energy development, geohazards, cultural and recreational interests, and military uses were of much less general concern, although occasionally of regional importance.
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From page 9...
... · Seafloor imagery, with potential for concurrent generation of bathymetric data, is of high priority, especially in the interpretation of the dynamic processes leading to current seabed morphology, e.g., sediment slumping, active faults, tectonism, diapirism. Following completion of the deepwater GLORIA surveys (side-looking or side-scan sonars that provide acoustic images of the seafloor Geologic Longrange Inclined ASDIC developed in the United Kingdom and currently used by the USGS in their EEZ mapping program)
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  • coastal states
  • offshore geographic
  • noaa state
  • seafloor imagery
  • seabed data

  • water depths
  • pacific islands
  • management program
  • specific offshore
  • five principal

  • cover letters
  • allowed incomplete
  • include responses
  • regional understanding
  • provide acoustic

  • asdic developed
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  • longrange inclined
  • regional tectonic
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