1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System
  3. Dataset 23991

Dataset description: 2014-072-FA_FI_Sonar5m

5-meter backscatter image collected by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., offshore of Fire Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and USGS mapping effort (UTM zone 18N, WGS 84, 32-bit continuous unsigned integer GeoTIFF format).
Keywordsmultibeam sonar, image mosaics, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, geospatial datasets, marine geophysics
Data typesMultibeam

Contacts

Contact
William C Schwab
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Location of materials and files

Public fileshttps://doi.org/10.5066/F7C827BX
Metadatahttps://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/whcmsc/field_activities/2014_072_fa/2014-072-fa_fi_sonar5m.xml
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Activities and equipment

ActivityEquipment
2014-072-FAR2Sonic 2024 multibeam echosounder
Multibeam echosounder, ~200/400 kHz, collects bathymetry and backscatter

Geometries linked to this dataset

MapNameDescription
Map2014-072-FA_fi_footprintFootprint of acoustic backscatter and swath bathymetric grid offshore of Fire Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and U.S. Geological Survey mapping effort