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Field Activity Details for field activity 09CCT01

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Other ID: none

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): Dana Wiese

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Interferometric, Sonar: Multibeam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Conduct offshore geophysical investigations to identify storm impact on seafloor features.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Galveston, TX

End Port/Location: Galveston, TX

Start Date: 2009-03-02

End Date: 2009-03-06

Equipment Used: Interferometric Bathymetry System, F190 DGPS/IMU, Chirp 512i, GPS

Information to be Derived: High-resolution seismic-reflection profiles, bathymetry dataset, shoal locations and volume, and a seafloor basemap.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 500 km of survey lines (planned)

Staff: James Flocks, Jordan Sanford, Dana Wiese

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Platform: R/V Manta (NOAA).

Location:

Galveston, TX

Boundaries
North: 30.0114361 South: 28.5195336 West: -95.27541161 East: -93.39898109

Platform(s):

photo of Manta
Manta

Publications

Forde, A.S., Dadisman, S.V., Flocks, J.G., Dellapenna, T.M., Sanford, J.M., Wiese, D.S., 2010, Archive of digital CHIRP sub-bottom profile data collected during USGS cruise 09CCT01 offshore of Sabine Pass and Galveston, Texas, March 2009: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 526, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds526.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 09CCT01 has data viewable in the GeoMappApp/Virtual Ocean applications. To view this data in these applications go to http://www.geomapapp.org/ and http://www.virtualocean.org/. See the instructions for locating USGS data in these applications. You can also view the imagery created from the SEGY data at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/images.php?cruise=09CCT01.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Interferometric Bathymetry System --- Interferometric
F190 DGPS/IMU --- Navigation
Chirp 512i --- Sub Bottom Profiler
09CCT01-SE-pd-3 (Chirp 512i GIS)
09CCT01-SE-pd-5 (Chirp 512i agc SEGY)
09CCT01-SE-rd-1 (Chirp 512i)
09CCT01-SE-pd-1 (Chirp 512i navigation)
09CCT01-SE-pd-2 (Chirp 512i profiles)
GPS --- Navigation
Processed 1,000-Shot-Interval Location Navigation
Processed Shotpoint Navigation

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