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Field Activity Details for field activity E104SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: EW0407,E-1-04-SC

Status: Completed

Organization(s): Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Guy Cochrane, Peter Dartnell

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Peter Dartnell

Data Type(s): Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Swath bathymetry of Southern California shelf.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location: 06, 2004 - San Diego, CA and 15, 2004 - Port Hueneme, CA

Start Date: 2004-08-06

End Date: 2004-08-15

Equipment Used: bathymetry, sidescansonar

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: For raw and intermediate data sets, contact Rani Nandiwada

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Guy Cochrane (USGS Menlo Park) - Chief Scientist
Pete Dartnell (USGS Menlo Park) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Southern California shelf

Boundaries
North: 34.34 South: 33.85 West: -119.625 East: -119.05

Platform(s):

photo of Maurice Ewing
Maurice Ewing

Publications

Dartnell, P., and Cochrane, G.R., 2016, High-resolution multibeam bathymetry and backscatter data collected in 2004 for the northern Channel Islands region, southern California: U.S. Geological Survey Data release.

Dartnell, P., Cochrane, G., and Dunaway, M.E., 2005, Multibeam Bathymetry and Backscatter Data: Northeastern Channel Islands Region, Southern California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1153, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1153/.

Dartnell, P., Roland, E.C., Raineault, N.A., Castillo, C.M., Conrad, J.E., Kane, R.R., Brothers, D.S., Kluesner, J.W., and Walton, M.A.L., 2017, Multibeam bathymetry and acoustic-backscatter data collected in 2016 in Catalina Basin, southern California and merged multibeam bathymetry datasets of the northern portion of the Southern California Continental Borderland: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7DV1H3W.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
bathymetry --- Single Beam
south area bathy 5m (published on Sciencebase doi: 10.5066/F7S46Q1J)
north area backscatter_5m (published on Sciencebase; U.S. Geological Survey data release, doi: 10.5066/F7S46Q1J)
northArea_bathy_5m (data published on Sciencebase doi: 10.5066/F7S46Q1J.)
ArcInfo GRID format of the 2004 Multibeam Bathymetry Data in the Northeastern Channel Islands Region, Southern California [bathy.zip] (ArcInfo GRID format data generated from the 2004 multibeam sonar survey of the Northeastern Channel Islands, CA Region. The data include high-resolution bathymetry.)
south area backscatter 5m (published on Sciencebase doi: 10.5066/F7S46Q1J)
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
ArcInfo GRID format of the 2004 Multibeam Backscatter Data in the Northeastern Channel Islands Region, Southern California [mos.zip] (ArcInfo GRID format data generated from the 2004 multibeam sonar survey of the Northeastern Channel Islands, CA Region. The data include high-resolution, acoustic, corrected backscatter.)

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