| Identifier | 2011-013-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Sea floor mapping along the Elizabeth Islands, Middle Ground, Hedge Fence, and L'Hommedieu Shoals | ||||||||
| Location | Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;Middle Ground, Vineyard Sound, Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;, | ||||||||
| Summary | Data were collected on 19 days during daylight ops on R/V Rafael between 2-31 Aug 2011. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Sea floor map;Bathymetric maps;Morphology; | ||||||||
| Comments | Project = MCZM/B. Bay & Vineyard Sound, | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | David S Foster | ||||||||||||
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| Data category: | Sonar, Location-Elevation, Seismics |
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| Data type: | Interferometric, Multibeam, Navigation, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sound Velocity, Sidescan |
| Name | Survey Equipment | Description |
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| Survey Log for 2011-013-FA | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Survey Log for 2011-013-FA |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Knudsen CHirp 3200 | Specifically the Knudsen 3202 | Sub Bottom Profiler | 1 |
| SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz | Interferometric | 2 | |
| DGPS | Navigation | (no data reported) | |
| HYPACK | Navigation | 1 | |
| Sensor - SVP | Sound Velocity | (no data reported) | |
| Klein 3000 | Sidescan | (no data reported) |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 2011-013-FA-SE-001-01 | Knudsen CHirp 3200 | Seismic Profile data (Knudsen) published in: Pendleton, E.A., Andrews, B.D., Danforth, W.W., and Foster, D.S. 2013, High-resolution geophysical data from sand shoals of Vineyard Sound and the seafloor surrounding the eastern Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1020, available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1020/ | Brian Andrews |
| 2011-013-FA-BA-001-01 | SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz | Final processed SWATHplus data are published in OFR 2013-1020 Pendleton, E.A., Andrews, B.D., Danforth, W.W., and Foster, D.S. 2013, High-resolution geophysical data from sand shoals of Vineyard Sound and the seafloor surrounding the eastern Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1020, available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1020/. | Brian Andrews |
| 2011-013-FA-SO-001-01 | SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz | Backscatter data (Klein and some SWATHplus) Pendleton, E.A., Andrews, B.D., Danforth, W.W., and Foster, D.S. 2013, High-resolution geophysical data from sand shoals of Vineyard Sound and the seafloor surrounding the eastern Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1020, available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1020/ | Brian Andrews |
| 2011-013-FA-LN-001-01 | HYPACK | Hypack navigation files are published in: Pendleton, E.A., Andrews, B.D., Danforth, W.W., and Foster, D.S. 2013, High-resolution geophysical data from sand shoals of Vineyard Sound and the seafloor surrounding the eastern Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1020, available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1020/. | Brian Andrews |
| Dataset name | Description | Dataset contact |
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| BuzzBay_10m | Buzzards Bay: continuous bathymetry and topography terrain model of the Massachusetts coastal zone and continental shelf, (32-bit GeoTIFF, UTM 19 NAD 83, NAVD 88 vertical datum) | Brian Andrews |
| BuzzBay_Source | Buzzards Bay: Polygon boundaries for source data of a continuous bathymetry and topography terrain model of the Massachusetts coastal zone and continental shelf: (Esri polygon shapefile, Geographic, NAD 83) | Brian Andrews |
| Ntkt_VS_10m | Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds, southern coast of Cape Cod including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket: continuous bathymetry and topography terrain model of the Massachusetts coastal zone and continental shelf, (32-bit GeoTIFF, UTM 19 NAD 83, NAVD 88 vertical datum) | Brian Andrews |
| Ntkt_VS_Source | Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds, Southern coast of Cape Cod including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket: Polygon boundaries for source data of a continuous bathymetry and topography terrain model of the Massachusetts coastal zone and continental shelf: (Esri polygon shapefile, Geographic, NAD 83) | Brian Andrews |
