Field Activity 09BHM01

Identifier 09BHM01
Purpose Compliment manatee biological studies (conducted by USGS FISC - Gainesville) by providing current bathymetry coverage and seabed classification
Location 10,000 Islands FL
Summary Five days of surveyed bathymetric tracklines; acquisition of xyz, accompanied with 5 days of static base station occupation for differential navigation. The single beam waveform was recorded concurrently using SEABED classification system (a USGS designed acquisition software)
Info derived Single beam bathymetry (X, Y, Z) data: Purpose is to acquire the latest bathymetry and seabed waveform classification to assist in defining sea grass habitats and bathymetric contours in areas known to have manatee occupation. Products are data set and maps
Platform
Streeterville
22' Whaler
Itinerary
Start Port of the Isles Naples, FL 2009-09-14
End Port of the Isles Naples, FL 2009-09-18
Bounds
West -81.6281
East -81.34666598
North 25.93024253
South 25.73998821
Topic 7

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Mark Erik Hansen
Crew members
Nancy T DeWitt
Scientist, Staff
Mark Erik Hansen
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Nancy T DeWitt
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Profiles, Transects, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)
TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor Interferometric, Single Beam (no data reported)
Marimatech Echosounder Single Beam 2
Choke Ring Antenna Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
DS1031-10KIslands_WGS84_NAVD88-G03_SB_shp.xyz.zip Marimatech Echosounder Singlebeam soundings in Esri point shapefile format. Nancy T DeWitt
DS1031-10KIslands_WGS84_NAVD88-G03_SB_txt.xyz.zip Marimatech Echosounder Singlebeam soundings in comma-delimited text format. Nancy T DeWitt

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity