Other ID: Ship Island Nearshore Bathymetry Pilot Survey
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): James Flocks
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Nancy DeWitt
Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Single Beam
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To utilize four remaining days of a LA survey to survey two important areas of Ship Island, MS (Camille Cut and Fort Massachusetts). This will be the start of a larger effort assessing (quantitatively and qualitatively) the future of these barrier islands
Vehicle(s): Unknown
Start Port/Location: Biloxi, Mississippi
End Port/Location: Biloxi, Mississippi
Start Date: 2007-07-28
End Date: 2007-08-01
Equipment Used: Choke Ring Antenna, TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor, Marimatech Echosounder, Camera, Digital, Hand Held, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS
Information to be Derived: High precision single beam bathymetry (X, Y, Z) data; purpose being to acquire the latest bathymetry to assist in calculating sediment gain/loss and barrier island migration or degradation
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Surveyed more than 220 kilometers of tracklines, Collected 4 days of static base station occupation time on National Geodetic Survey (NGS) benchmarks
Staff: Nancy DeWitt, Billy Reynolds
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Ship Island, MS
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 30.258332 | South: 30.20522046 | West: -89.0284 | East: -88.84359808 |
Platform(s):
 Glacier Bay Cat Boat |
DeWitt, N.T., Flocks, J.G., Reynolds, B.J., Hansen, M., 2012, Archive of single-beam bathymetry data collected during USGS cruise 07CCTO1 nearshore of Fort Massachusetts and within Camille Cut, West and East Ship Islands, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi, July 2007: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 722, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds722.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choke Ring Antenna | --- | Benchmarks Navigation | No data was collected |
| TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor | --- | Interferometric Single Beam | |
| Marimatech Echosounder | --- | Single Beam | rm07CCT01_50m_raster2point (Shapefile of the 50-m single-beam bathymetric grid rm07CCT01_50m in point format) rm07CCT01_50m (Single-beam bathymetric grid as a GeoTIFF file at 50-m resolution) 07CCT01-BA-pd-3 (MGD77T file and header) 07CCT01-BA-pd-2 (50-m single-beam bathymetric grid named rm07CCT01_50m in ascii format) Data series 722 arc (Data Series 722 GIS dataset) |
| Camera, Digital, Hand Held | --- | Photo | |
| Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS | --- | Benchmarks Navigation | 07CCT01-NL-pd-1 (HYPACK navigation tracklines as ERSI shapefile) 07CCT01-NL-pd-2 (HYPACK navigation tracklines as GeoTiff) |
