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Field Activity Details for field activity 11BIM01

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Barrier Island Evolution Research - BIER Sedimentology (GX.17.MN00.F1F50.00)

Principal Investigator(s): James Flocks

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Dana Wiese

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Benchmarks, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Location-Elevation: Transects, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Multibeam, Sonar: Sound Velocity

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Berm Study

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Biloxi, MS

End Port/Location: Biloxi, MS

Start Date: 2011-05-31

End Date: 2011-06-25

Equipment Used: Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Chirp 424, F190 DGPS/IMU, Interferometric Bathymetry System, Valeport SVP, Choke Ring Antenna

Information to be Derived: Sand Resources

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Noreen Buster, Shawn Dadisman, Nancy DeWitt, James Flocks, Mark Erik Hansen, Kyle Kelso, William Pfeiffer, Billy Reynolds, Dana Wiese

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

LA Barrier Islands

Boundaries
North: 30.34305309 South: 28.73681836 West: -91.1412 East: -88.29567342

Platform(s):

photo of Survey Cat (Class 3)
Survey Cat (Class 3)

Publications

DeWitt, N.T., Pfeiffer, W.R., Bernier, J.C., Buster, N.A., Miselis, J.L., Flocks, J.G., Reynolds, B.J., Wiese, D.S., Kelso, K.W., 2014, Coastal bathymetry data collected in 2011 from the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 848, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds848.

Forde, A.S., Dadisman, S.V., Miselis, J.L., Flocks, J.G., Wiese, D.S., 2013, Archive of digital chirp subbottom profile data collected during USGS cruise 11BIM01 Offshore of the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, June 2011: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 772, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds772.

Mickey, R.C., Long, J.W., Plant, N.G., Thompson, D.M., Dalyander, P.S., 2017, A methodology for modeling barrier island storm-impact scenarios: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1009, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171009.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 11BIM01 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=11BIM01.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
11BIM01_IFB_tracklines (Swath bathymetry navigation tracklines)
s11bim01.txt (Processed Shotpoint Navigation)
s11bim01.txt - Processed 1,000-Shot-Interval Location Navigation
Chirp 424 --- Sub Bottom Profiler
11BIM01-SE-pd-4 (Chirp 424 data GeoMapApp)
DS 772 profiles (Chirp 424 data profiles)
DS 772 segy (Chirp 424 data agc SEGY)
11BIM01-SE-pd-3 (Chirp 424 data GIS)
11BIM01.txt (Chirp 424 data navigation)
F190 DGPS/IMU --- Navigation
Interferometric Bathymetry System --- Interferometric
Chan11-GIS (GIS Dataset for DS 0848)
Chan11_DEM (bathymetric (single-beam and swath) grid in Geotiff format, 50-m resolution)
11BIM01_IFB_xyz (Swath Interferometric bathymetric grid in ASCII format, 50-m resolution)
Valeport SVP --- Sound Velocity
Choke Ring Antenna --- Benchmarks
Navigation
No data was collected

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