1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 09CCT03

Identifier 09CCT03
Alternate names 09CCT03A
Purpose To create a complete modern topobathymetric map of the Mississippi barrier islands from Cat Island to Dauphin Island. Data to provide information for the following: sediment budget; assessment of immediate sand resources in the region, modern geologic framework; historical island change measurements; base-level assessment of the seafloor since the 2005 hurricane season.
Location Cat Island, MS to Dauphin Island, AL
Summary A total of 203 (09CCT03 - 139 lines, 09CCT03A - 64 lines) Chirp 2-D subbottom profiles and 216 (09CCT03 - 146 lines, 09CCT03A - 70 lines) Swath lines were collected and ~50 km of shoreline were surveyed. Note: A subset of the seismic data collected around Cat Island, MS, was informally given the ID of 09CCT03A and consisted of lines 09c627 to 09c695.
Info derived High precision Submetrix swath bathymetry data; shallow sub-bottom image profiles, recent shoreline topography (X, Y, Z).
Comments Additional Equipment: one portable GPS topographic survey buggy.
Platform
Survey Cat (Class 3)
Itinerary
Start Moss Point, Mississippi 2009-06-03
End Moss Point, Mississippi 2009-06-23
Bounds
West -89.6017
East -87.31976879
North 30.58682782
South 29.7056805
Topic 14
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators James G Flocks
Crew members
Dadisman, Shawn
Scientist, Staff
Billy J Reynolds
Scientist, Staff
Nancy T DeWitt
Scientist, Staff
Kyle W Kelso
Scientist, Staff
Dana S Wiese
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Arnell S Forde
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Resistivity, Benchmarks, Navigation, Profiles, Transects, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor Interferometric, Single Beam (no data expected)
Interferometric Bathymetry System Interferometric 8
Marimatech Echosounder Single Beam (no data expected)
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Benchmarks, Navigation 2
Chirp 424 Sub Bottom Profiler 5
Choke Ring Antenna Benchmarks, Navigation (no data expected)
F190 DGPS/IMU Navigation (no data expected)
GPS topographic survey buggy Benchmarks, Navigation, Profiles, Transects 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
09CCT03-BA-pd-1 Interferometric Bathymetry System bathymetric (single-beam and swath) grid in ascii format, 50-m resolution Nancy T DeWitt
09CCT03-BA-pd-2 Interferometric Bathymetry System bathymetric (single-beam and swath) grid in GeoTiff format, 50-m resolution Nancy T DeWitt
09CCT03-BA-pd-3 Interferometric Bathymetry System bathymetric (single-beam and swath) grid in point format, 50-m resolution Nancy T DeWitt
09CCT03-BA-pd-4 Interferometric Bathymetry System Data Series 675 GIS dataset Nancy T DeWitt
2008_2009_MS_NAD83NAVD88g12B_50m.zip Interferometric Bathymetry System Interpolated DEM Noreen A Buster
2008_2009_MS_NAD83NAVD88g12B_XYZ.zip Interferometric Bathymetry System updated elevation point data (xyz) in which NOAA's Vdatum version 3.6 was used convert the 2008-2009 XYZ soundings to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) horizontal datum and North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) GEOID12B vertical datum Noreen A Buster
2008to2009minus1916to1920_MS_ NAD83NAVD88g12B_50m.zip Interferometric Bathymetry System bathymetric change digital elevation model (DEM) observed between the 1916-1920 and 2008-2009 bathymetry Noreen A Buster
2016minus2008to2009_MS_ NAD83NAVD88g12B_50m.zip Interferometric Bathymetry System Elevation change as a DEM, bathymetric change digital elevation model (DEM) observed between the 2008-2009 and 2016 bathymetry Noreen A Buster
09CCT03-BA-pd-5 Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Trackline shapefiles for single-beam and swath bathymetry Arnell S Forde
09CCT03-SE-pd-6 Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Chirp 424 data processed navigation (09CCT03 and 09CCT03a) Arnell S Forde
09CCT03-SE-pd-1 Chirp 424 Chirp 424 processed AGC SEG Y (09CCT03 and 09CCT03a) Arnell S Forde
09CCT03-SE-pd-2 Chirp 424 Chirp 424 data profiles (09CCT03 and 09CCT03a) Arnell S Forde
09CCT03-SE-pd-3 Chirp 424 Chirp 424 swell filtered Arnell S Forde
09CCT03-SE-pd-4 Chirp 424 Chirp 424 data GIS Arnell S Forde
09CCT03-SE-pd-5 Chirp 424 Chirp 424 data GeoMapApp Arnell S Forde
09CCT03-EL-pd-1 GPS topographic survey buggy Push buggy topography Nancy T DeWitt

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity