Other ID: 2540-E6400-nasa
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Nathaniel Plant
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Mark Erik Hansen, Nathaniel Plant
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Single Beam
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Runup and overwash observation
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Saint Petersburg and Port Canaveral, FL
End Port/Location: Saint Petersburg, FL
Start Date: 2010-07-27
End Date: 2010-07-29
Equipment Used: Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Single-beam Acoustic Sounder
Information to be Derived: Shallow bathymetry survey to support bathymetry change analysis and numerical model initialization.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: Nancy DeWitt, Kara Doran, Mark Erik Hansen, Karen L M Morgan, Billy Reynolds, David Thompson
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: D. Meyer may be used as additional staff. Platform: 21-ft Whaler.
Location:
Cape Canaveral Beaches, FL
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 28.43148701 | South: 28.29529833 | West: -80.634 | East: -80.52932796 |
Platform(s):
Thompson, D.M., Plant, N.G., Hansen, M.E., 2015, Analysis of bathymetric surveys to identify coastal vulnerabilities at Cape Canaveral, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1180, 31 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151180.
Thompson, D.M., Plant, N.G., Hansen, M.E., Doran, K.S., DeWitt, N.T., Schreppel, H.A., 2015, Cape Canaveral, Florida 2010 single-beam bathymetry data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F75Q4T4N.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS | --- | Benchmarks Navigation | |
| Single-beam Acoustic Sounder | --- | Single Beam | canaveral_single_beam_2010.zip (Single-beam bathymetric surveys were conducted on July 27–29, 2010 along 37 cross-shore transects offshore from Cape Canaveral, Fla.) |
