Field Activity Details for field activity 2008-021-FA

Other ID: OC 444; O-21-08-NA

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Uri Ten Brink

Affiliate Investigator(s): WHOI

Information Specialist(s): Jason Chaytor, PARTNER

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Single Beam, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Map submarine landslides as part of a WHOI test cruise of the hybrid AUV/ROV SENTRY.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2008-04-18

End Date: 2008-04-24

Equipment Used: ROV, GPS (wh), Knudsen echo sounder 320B/R

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Using the hull-mounted Knudsen 320B/R deepwater echo sounder on the OCEANUS, approximately 1065 km of 3.5 kHz sub-bottom data were collected over the 6 days of the cruise (see map). Data were acquired in both Knudsen proprietary binary format (.keb) viewable only in the Knudsen 'Post Survey' software and in standard SEG-Y format for later processing. Multibeam data was not collected in the survey area because of technical problems with the RESON multibeam sonar aboard the Sentry.

Staff: Jason Chaytor, Uri Ten Brink

Affiliate Staff:
1. Dr. Christopher German
Chief Scientist
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; 2. Dr. Dana Yoerger
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; 3. Mr. Rodney Catanach
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; 5. Mr. Alan Duester
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; 6. Dr. James Kinsey
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; 7. Dr. Robert Detrick
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; 8. Dr. Henrietta Edmonds
University of Texas Marine Science Institute
Port Aransas
TX; 9. Mr. Alexander Dorsk
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Notes: This is part of a WHOI engineering testing cruise. The full cruise report is being prepared by Drs. Chris German and Dana Yoerger. Data Curator: WHOI.
Information from Foghorn: AUV/ROV Sentry;Knudsen echo sounder 320B/R.
Also: WHOI will be data curator for complete cruise; U. ten Brink will be WHSC contact; J. Chaytor will be data curator for data to be processed by WHSC. No WHSC project number; funded by WHOI.

Location:

New England continental slope, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

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