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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-305-FA

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Other ID: 17TST01, 17TST02, 17TST03, 17TST04, 17TST05

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): St. Petersburg Science Center Marine Operations (GX.24.MN00.0AZMO.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Reich

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Nancy DeWitt

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Seismics: Bubble Gun, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Multibeam, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Equipment testing

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL

Start Date: 2017-02-01

End Date: 2017-02-28

Equipment Used: Bubble Pulser, GPS Pole, F190 DGPS/IMU, Other, Chirp 512i, Bubble Pulser Hydrophone Streamer, Singlebeam Echosounder, SeaBat T20 (WH), Sidescan Sonar

Information to be Derived: Equipment testing prior to summer field work.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: All data have been uploaded to the SFM-Working server.

Staff: Nancy DeWitt, Andrew Farmer, Joseph Fredericks, Kyle Kelso, Billy Reynolds

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Each vessel will collect specific data types and be assigned a sub-FAN, as follows:

17TST01- R/V Sallenger
17TST02- Twin Vee
17TST03- PWC1
17TST04- PWC2
17TST05- Navigation poles and wheels

Location:

St. Petersburg, Florida

Boundaries
North: 27.86138748 South: 27.69276578 West: -82.74627686 East: -82.45098877

Platform(s):

photo of Personal Water Craft (Blue WVR2 - Chum)
Personal Water Craft (Blue WVR2 - Chum)
photo of Personal Water Craft (White WVR1 - Shark)
Personal Water Craft (White WVR1 - Shark)
photo of Sallenger
Sallenger
photo of 22-ft Twin Vee (R/V G. Hill)
22-ft Twin Vee (R/V G. Hill)

Publications

DeWitt, N.T., Fredericks, J.J., Stalk, C.S., Reynolds, B.J., Kelso, K.W., Thompson, D.M., Farmer, A.S., Brown, J.A., 2024, Nearshore Multibeam and Single-beam Bathymetry Data: Madeira Beach, Florida, February 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Y7R8NS.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Bubble Pulser --- Bubble Gun
GPS Pole --- Navigation
Profiles
Transects
F190 DGPS/IMU --- Navigation
Madeira_Beach_2017_SBES_tracklines (Single-beam trackline shapefile in WGS84)
Other --- --- ---
Chirp 512i --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Bubble Pulser Hydrophone Streamer --- Bubble Gun
Singlebeam Echosounder --- Single Beam
Madeira_Beach_2017_SBES_xyz (Processed elevation point data (xyz) provided in both WGS84 (ITRF08) ellipsoid and NAD83 NAVD88 GEOID12B )
Madeira_Beach_2017_SBES_20m_DEM (Single-beam bathymetry DEM, 20-m cell size, in WGS84 (ITRF08))
SeaBat T20 (WH) --- Multibeam
Madeira_Beach_2017_MBES_1m_xyz (Processed elevation point data (xyz) as derived from a 1-meter grid provided in both WGS84 (ITRF08) ellipsoid and NAD83 NAVD88 GEOID12B )
Sidescan Sonar --- Sidescan

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