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Field Activity Details for field activity F690SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: 1990-012-FA, F-6-90-SC

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s):

Affiliate Investigator(s): Thomas O'Brien

Information Specialist(s): Jim Gardner

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Survey with midrange sidescan sonar (TOBI: towed ocean bottom instrument).

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Redwood City, CA

End Port/Location: Redwood City, CA

Start Date: 1990-06-19

End Date: 1990-07-14

Equipment Used: LoranC, 3.5khz, sidescansonar

Information to be Derived: Sea floor map;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: data resides in Santa Cruz (PCMSC) and on FAD

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: changed to F690SC 10/18/2018
this is also a Woods Hole FAN; 1990-012-FA.
added Santa Cruz FAN to link to data.

Location:

southern California

Boundaries
North: 37.94782818 South: 33.57384928 West: -125.27360335 East: -121.84909567

Platform(s):

photo of Farnella
Farnella

Publications

Schreppel, H.A., Degnan, C.H, Dadisman, S.V., and Metzger, D.R., 2013, Archive of U.S. Geological Survey Selected Single-Beam Bathymetry Datasets, 1969â2000: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 757, http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/757/.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
LoranC --- Navigation
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
sidescansonar --- Sidescan

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