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Field Activity Details for field activity 12BIM03

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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): Jennifer Miselis

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: Interferometric, Sonar: Multibeam, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Sound Velocity

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Barrier Island Mapping Change

Vehicle(s): Ford F-350 Dually White (GSA)

Start Port/Location: Biloxi, MS

End Port/Location: Biloxi, MS

Start Date: 2012-07-20

End Date: 2012-08-04

Equipment Used: F190 DGPS/IMU, Chirp 424, Sidescan Sonar, Valeport SVP, Interferometric Bathymetry System, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Geodometer 640 Total Station, GPS , Klein Side Scan

Information to be Derived: Barrier Island Mapping Change

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Swath Bathymetry, side scan imagery, and chirp sub-bottom profiles

Staff: Julie Bernier, Nancy DeWitt, Keith Ludwig, William Pfeiffer, Philip Thompson, Lance Thornton, Dana Wiese

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Shop Time: R. Hall, P. Thompson, K. Ludwig and L. Thornton all contributed with preparations by providing assistance for vessels, mounts and testing prior to departure.

Location:

Chandeleur Islands, LA (Berm area)

Boundaries
North: 30.22710095 South: 29.27292108 West: -89.2076 East: -88.20778246

Platform(s):


Pilatus PC6
photo of Survey Cat (Class 3)
Survey Cat (Class 3)

Publications

DeWitt, N.T., Bernier, J.C., Pfeiffer, W.R., Miselis, J.L., Reynolds, B.J., Wiese, D.S., Kelso, K.W., 2014, Coastal bathymetry and backscatter data collected in 2012 from the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 847, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds847.

Forde, A.S., Miselis, J.L., Wiese, D.S., 2014, Archive of digital chirp subbottom profile data collected during USGS cruise 12BIM03 offshore of the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, July 2012: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 856, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds856.

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.

Plant, N.G., Flocks, J., Stockdon, H.F., Long, J.W., Guy, K.K., Thompson, D.M., Cormier, J.M., Smith, C.G., Miselis, J.L., Dalyander, P.S., 2014, Predictions of barrier island berm evolution in a time-varying storm climatology: Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface, v. 119 no. 2, pp. 300–316, doi: 10.1002/2013jf002871.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 12BIM03 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=12BIM03.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
F190 DGPS/IMU --- Navigation
Chirp 424 --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Data series 856 profiles (Chirp 424 data profiles)
Data series 856 arc (Chirp 424 data GIS)
Data series 856 nav (Chirp 424 data navigation)
Data series 856 segy (Chirp 424 data agc SEGY)
Sidescan Sonar --- Sidescan
Valeport SVP --- Sound Velocity
Interferometric Bathymetry System --- Interferometric
12BIM03_IFB_ITRF05_xyz (2012 ASCII Point Files from Interferometric Bathymetry: ITRF05)
12BIM03_IFB_NAD83_NAVD88_MLLW_xyz (2012 ASCII Point Files from Interferometric Bathymetry: NAD83_MLLW)
12BIM03_IFB_NAD83_NAVD88_GEOID09_xyz (2012 ASCII Point Files from Interferometric Bathymetry: NAD83_NVD88_GEOID09)
Chandeleurs_2012_50_NAD83_NAVD88_GEOID09_DEM (bathymetric (single-beam and swath) grid in Geotiff format, 50-m resolution)
Data series 847 GIS (Includes tracklines (swath (IFB), single-beam (SBB)), Base station locations, USGS Lidar extent, Backscatter mosaic, and bathymetric (swath and single-beam) grid.)
12BIM03_IFB_Mosaic (Interferometric Swath Backscatter mosaic, 1-m resolution as Geotiff)
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
12BIM03-BA-pd-6 (Swath navigation tracklines)
Processed 1,000-Shot-Interval Location Navigation
Processed Shotpoint Navigation
Geodometer 640 Total Station --- Navigation
GPS --- Navigation
Klein Side Scan --- Sidescan

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