Field Activity 2004-301-FA

Identifier 2004-301-FA
Purpose The primary use of the data collected for this project was for the development of boundary conditions in numerical hydrodynamic modeling for establishing MFL in Southwest Florida. Therefore, the shallow water sonar swath interferometric system was selected to be best suited for fulfilling project requirements.
Location Everglades National Park, FL
Summary Number of soundings: single-beam 23,407; swath 2,226,397 in comma-delimited and Esri point shapefile formats.
Info derived Interferometric swath and single-beam bathymetry (X,Y,Z) data. Products are ASCII text files of the sounding data and point shapefiles representing seafloor elevations.
Comments This dataset includes bathymetric data for Shark River from the mouth on the Gulf of Mexico inland approximately 17 kilometers (km) to Tarpon Bay. All of Trout Creek was surveyed.
Platform
Streeterville
22' Whaler
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start St. Petersburg, FL 2004-01-20
End Flamingo Marina, Everglades National Park, FL 2004-03-17
Bounds
West -81.13952637
East -80.1685791
North 25.71377553
South 25.12243078
Marine operations Yes

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, Interferometric, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Marimatech Echosounder Single Beam 4
Interferometric Bathymetry System Interferometric 4
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)
Choke Ring Antenna Benchmarks, Navigation (no data expected)
TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor Interferometric, Single Beam (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
DS1031-TidalCreek-SharkR_WGS84_NAVD88-G99_SB_shp.xyz.zip Marimatech Echosounder Singlebeam soundings in Esri point shapefile format. Nancy T DeWitt
DS1031-TidalCreek-SharkR_WGS84_NAVD88-G99_SB_txt.xyz.zip Marimatech Echosounder Singlebeam soundings in comma-delimited text format. Nancy T DeWitt
DS1031-TidalCreek-TroutC_WGS84_NAVD88-G99_SB_shp.xyz.zip Marimatech Echosounder Singlebeam soundings in Esri point shapefile format. Nancy T DeWitt
DS1031-TidalCreek-TroutC_WGS84_NAVD88-G99_SB_txt.xyz.zip Marimatech Echosounder Singlebeam soundings in comma-delimited text format. Nancy T DeWitt
DS1031-TidalCreek-SharkR_WGS84_NAVD88-G99_SWATH_shp.xyz.zip Interferometric Bathymetry System Interferometric swath soundings in Esri point shapefile format. Nancy T DeWitt
DS1031-TidalCreek-SharkR_WGS84_NAVD88-G99_SWATH_txt.xyz.zip Interferometric Bathymetry System Interferometric swath soundings in comma-delimited text format. Nancy T DeWitt
DS1031-TidalCreek-TroutC_WGS84_NAVD88-G99_SWATH_shp.xyz.zip Interferometric Bathymetry System Interferometric swath soundings in Esri point shapefile format. Nancy T DeWitt
DS1031-TidalCreek-TroutC_WGS84_NAVD88-G99_SWATH_txt.xyz.zip Interferometric Bathymetry System Interferometric swath soundings in comma-delimited text format. Nancy T DeWitt

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity