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): Nancy DeWitt
Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Location-Elevation: Transects, Sonar: Single Beam, Sonar: Sound Velocity
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Berm Study
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Point Cadet, Biloxi, MS
End Port/Location: Point Cadet, Biloxi, MS
Start Date: 2011-06-04
End Date: 2011-06-04
Equipment Used: Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Single-beam Acoustic Sounder, SeaSPY Marine Magnetometer, Valeport Mini Sound Velocity Probe, Choke Ring Antenna, Marimatech Echosounder, TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor
Information to be Derived: High Precision Single Beam Bathymetric XYZ.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: Noreen Buster, Nancy DeWitt, Mark Erik Hansen, Kyle Kelso, William Pfeiffer, Billy Reynolds, David Thompson
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Platform: This single beam survey will be performed on the 21' Twin Vee and a modified jet ski.
Location:
LA Barrier Islands
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 30.47682056 | South: 28.36087193 | West: -92.6311 | East: -87.24728498 |
Platform(s):
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.
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.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS | --- | Benchmarks Navigation | 11BIM02_SBB_tracklines (Single-beam bathymetry navigation tracklines) |
| Single-beam Acoustic Sounder | --- | Single Beam | Chan11_DEM (Bathymetric (single-beam and swath) grid in Geotiff format, 50-m resolution) 11BIM02_SBB_xyz (Single-beam bathymetric grid in ASCII format, 50-m resolution) Chan11-GIS (GIS Dataset for DS 848) |
| SeaSPY Marine Magnetometer | --- | Magnetics | |
| Valeport Mini Sound Velocity Probe | --- | Sound Velocity | |
| Choke Ring Antenna | --- | Benchmarks Navigation | No data was collected |
| Marimatech Echosounder | --- | Single Beam | No data was collected |
| TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor | --- | Interferometric Single Beam | No data was collected |
