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Field Activity Details for field activity 2004-303-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring - BICM (GR.20.MN00.FT954.00)

Principal Investigator(s):

Affiliate Investigator(s): Mark Kulp University of New Orleans (UNO) Mike Miner UNO

Information Specialist(s): Nancy DeWitt

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Preliminary single-beam bathymetry surveys in the three areas.

Vehicle(s): Chevy Suburban Silver

Start Port/Location: Cocodrie, Louisiana

End Port/Location: Grand Isle, Louisiana

Start Date: 2004-07-21

End Date: 2004-07-31

Equipment Used: Choke Ring Antenna, TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Marimatech Echosounder, Digital Camera

Information to be Derived: Information to be derived is post-processed high-precision bathymetry data in xyz format.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: GPS sessions for the base stations and the boat. For Madison Bay >102 km of tracklines produced 26,172 processed xyz data points.

Staff: Nancy DeWitt, James Flocks

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Maddison Bay, Louisiana Little Pass Timbalier, Louisiana Pass Abel - Grand Isle, Louisiana

Boundaries
North: 29.47361 South: 29.15883 West: -90.51002 East: -90.11907

Platform(s):

photo of Streeterville
Streeterville

Publications

Bernier, J.C., Kelso, K.K., DeWitt, N.T., 2019, Single-beam bathymetric data collected in 2004 and 2008 from the Mississippi River Delta Plain, Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RIB5GC.

Wessels, S., 2010, Late Quaternary Mississippi River Incised Valley Fill: Transgressive Depositional Packages: Master's thesis. University of New Orleans. , URL: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1236.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Choke Ring Antenna --- Benchmarks
Navigation
No data was collected
TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor --- Interferometric
Single Beam
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Marimatech Echosounder --- Single Beam
2004-303-FA_Little_Timbalier_Pass-BA-pd-2 (2004-303-FA_Little_Timbalier_Pass_NAD83_NAVD88_GEOID03.txt [Single-beam soundings in comma-delimited text format.])
2004-303-FA_Madison_Bay-NL-pd-1 (2004-303-FA_Madison_Bay_Tracklines.zip [Single-beam soundings in Esri polyline shapefile format])
2004-303-FA_Little_Timbalier_Pass-BA-pd-1 (2004-303-FA_Little_Timbalier_Pass_NAD83_NAVD88_GEOID03.shp [Singlebeam soundings in Esri point shapefile format])
2004-303-FA-Little_Timbalier_Pass-NL-pd-1 (2004-303-FA_Little_Timbalier_Pass_tracklines.shp [Single-beam tracklines in Esri polyline shapefile format.])
2004-303-FA_Madison_Bay-BA-pd-1 (2004-303-FA_Madison_Bay_NAD83_NAVD88_GEOID03.zip [Single-beam soundings in Esri point shapefile format])
2004-303-FA_Madison_Bay-BA-pd-2 (2004-303-FA_Madison_Bay_NAD83_NAVD88_GEOID03_txt.zip [Single-beam soundings in comma-delimited text format])
2004-303-FA_SBB_xyz (Single-beam bathymetric x,y,z data from the Madison Bay study area)
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video

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