Field Activity S0311CA

Identifier S0311CA
Alternate names S-03-11-CA
Purpose measure river morphology and classify sediments for hydrodynamic modeling support
Description Chief Scientists: Bruce Jaffe, David Finlayson. Survey, sampling, ground truth data (SWATHplus 234.5kHz) of field activity S-03-11-CA in Sacramento River near Woodland (Yolo), CA from 01/31/2011 to 02/04/2011
Location CA
Summary A digital elevation model (DEM) was created for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Info derived bathymetry and acoustic backscatter
Comments transcribed from old log form v3.1, sent to basecamp by David finlayson 12/20/2010 Staff information imported from InfoBank Bruce Jaffe David Finlayson Tom Reiss
Projects
Platform
Parke Snavely
34'
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Woodland, CA 2011-01-31
End Woodland, CA 2011-02-04
Bounds
West -121.725
East -121.59245
North 38.82088
South 38.67258
Activity survey, sampling, ground truth

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Bruce E Jaffe
Crew members
David P Finlayson
Scientist, Staff
Bruce E Jaffe
Scientist, Staff
Thomas E Reiss
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Theresa Fregoso
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sampling, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Geology, Interferometric, Multibeam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
grab Geology (no data reported)
GPS Navigation 2
SWATHplus 234.5kHz Interferometric, Multibeam 5

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format GPS David P Finlayson
Global positioning system (GPS) data s-03-11-ca.061 GPS Provisional best file David P Finlayson
Acoustic Backscatter of the Sacramento River, from the Feather River to Knights Landing, California in February 2011 SWATHplus 234.5kHz This part of the data release presents acoustic backscatter data collected on February 1, 2011, in the Sacramento River from the confluence of the Feather River to Knights Landing. The data were collected by the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) team with collaboration and funding from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. This project used interferometric sidescan sonar to characterize the riverbed and channel banks along a 12 mile reach of the Sacramento River, California (River Mile 79 through River Mile 91) to aid in the understanding of fish response to the creation of safe habitat associated with levee restoration efforts in two 1.5 mile reaches of the Sacramento River between River Mile 80 and 86. Theresa Fregoso
Bathymetric DEM of the Sacramento River, from the Feather River to Knights Landing, California in February 2011 SWATHplus 234.5kHz This part of the data release presents a digital elevation model (DEM) created from bathymetry data collected on February 1, 2011, in the Sacramento River from the confluence of the Feather River to Knights Landing. The data were collected by the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) team with collaboration and funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This project used interferometric sidescan sonar to characterize the riverbed and channel banks along a 12 mile reach of the Sacramento River, California (River Mile 79 through River Mile 91) to aid in the understanding of fish response to the creation of safe habitat associated with levee restoration efforts in two 1.5 mile reaches of the Sacramento River between River Mile 80 and 86. Theresa Fregoso
File list SWATHplus 234.5kHz InfoBank file David P Finlayson
San Francisco Bay-Delta bathymetric/topographic digital elevation model(DEM) SWATHplus 234.5kHz A high-resolution (10-meter per pixel) digital elevation model (DEM) was created for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta using both bathymetry and topography data. This DEM is the result of collaborative efforts of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR). The base of the DEM is from a 10-m DEM released in 2004 and updated in 2005 (Foxgrover and others, 2005) that used Environmental Systems Research Institute(ESRI), ArcGIS Topo to Raster module to interpolate grids from single beam bathymetric surveys collected by DWR, the Army Corp of Engineers (COE), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the USGS, into a continuous surface. The Topo to Raster interpolation method was specifically designed to create hydrologically correct DEMs from point, line, and polygon data (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., 2015). Elevation contour lines were digitized based on the single beam point data for control of channel morphology during the interpolation process. Checks were performed to ensure that the interpolated surfaces honored the source bathymetry, and additional contours and(or) point data were added as needed to help constrain the data. The original data were collected in the tidal datum Mean Lower or Low Water (MLLW), or the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29). All data were converted to NGVD29. Theresa Fregoso
Standard deviation of the bathymetric DEM of the Sacramento River, from the Feather River to Knights Landing, California in February 2011 SWATHplus 234.5kHz This part of the data release contains a grid of standard deviations of bathymetric soundings within each 0.5 m x 0.5 m grid cell. The bathymetry was collected on February 1, 2011, in the Sacramento River from the confluence of the Feather River to Knights Landing. The standard deviations represent one component of bathymetric uncertainty in the final digital elevation model (DEM), which is also available in this data release. The bathymetry data were collected by the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center (PCMSC) team with collaboration and funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This project used interferometric sidescan sonar to characterize the riverbed and channel banks along a 12 mile reach of the Sacramento River near the town of Knights Landing, California (River Mile 79 through River Mile 91) to aid in the understanding of fish response to the creation of safe habitat associated with levee restoration efforts in two 1.5 mile reaches of the Sacramento River between River Mile 80 and 86. Theresa Fregoso

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity