Bathymetric data for Israeli coastal micro-estuaries

Yair Suari; Dror Suari; Yonatan Suari; Tal Sade; Hadar Sedaka; Tom Topaz

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2023.109444

Bathymetric data for Israeli coastal micro-estuaries

Data Brief. 2023 Jul 26:49:109444. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109444. eCollection 2023 Aug.

Authors

Yair Suari¹, Dror Suari², Yonatan Suari², Tal Sade¹, Hadar Sedaka¹, Tom Topaz¹

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Marine Science, Ruppin Academic Center, Michmoret 40297, Israel.
² Hadera Democratic School, Horshat Brandeis, Hadera 38242, Israel.

Abstract

Data from a bathymetric mapping project conducted in seven Israeli coastal micro-estuaries (Lachish, Sorek, Yarkon, Alexander, Hadera, Taninim, and Kishon) is presented. The data were collected by rowing a kayak along an S-shaped track through the estuaries. An echosounder equipped with a Global Positioning System (GPS) unit were mounted on the kayak. The data preparation consisted of a) manual removal of outliers, mostly caused by instrument echo in water depths below the instrument's 0.5 m minimum; b) correction of the measured water level to sea level; and c) interpolation of the sampling points into a regular grid using a terrain-following interpolation algorithm. For each of the estuaries, the raw measurements as a text (csv) file and the interpolated data both as a text (CSV) file and a GeoTiff file were produced.

Keywords: Brackish; Lagoons; Mediterranean; Streams.