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Field Activity Details for field activity S1C08SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: S-1C-08-SC

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): CA State Waters (MU039)

Principal Investigator(s): Peter Dartnell

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Peter Dartnell

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

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Start Date: 2008-09-28

End Date: 2008-10-08

Equipment Used: camera, GPS

Information to be Derived:

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Notes: proposed; 10 days.

Location:

Santa Barbara Channel

Boundaries
North: 34.46728 South: 34.06622 West: -120.471 East: -119.09138

Platform(s):

photo of Shearwater
Shearwater

Publications

Johnson, S.Y., Dartnell, P., Cochrane, G.R., Golden, N.E., Phillips, E.L., Ritchie, A.C., Kvitek, R.G., Greene, H.G., Krigsman, L.M., Endris, C.A., Clahan, K.B., Sliter, R.W., Wong, F.L., Yoklavich, M.M., and Normark, W.R.(S.Y.J., ed.), 2012, California State Waters Map Series--Hueneme Canyon and vicinity, California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3225, 41 p.

Portals/Viewers

FAN s1c08sc has data viewable in the CMGP Video and Photograph Portal. View the data in this application here. See the instructions for working with this application.

Data Acquired

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camera --- Photo
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Habitat--Offshore of Refugio Beach, California (This part of DS 781 presents the habitat map of the Offshore of Refugio Beach map area, California. The vector data file is included in ""Habitat_RefugioBeach.zip,"" which is accessible from https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/OffshoreRefugioBeach/data_catalog_OffshoreRefugioBeach.html. These data accompany the pamphlet and map sheets of Johnson, S.Y., Dartnell, P., Cochrane, G.R., Golden, N.E., Phillips, E.L., Ritchie, A.C., Krigsman, L.M., Dieter, B.E., Conrad, J.E., Greene, H.G., Seitz, G.G., Endris, C.A., Sliter, R.W., Wong, F.L., Erdey, M.D., Gutierrez, C.I., Yoklavich, M.M., East, A.E., and Hart, P.E. (S.Y. Johnson and S.A. Cochran, eds.), 2015, California State Waters Map Series--Offshore of Refugio Beach, California: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3319, pamphlet 42 p., 11 sheets, scale 1:24,000, https://doi.org/10.3133/sim3319. Potential marine benthic habitat maps were constructed using multibeam echosounder (MBES) bathymetry and backscatter data. The habitats were based on substrate types and documented or ""ground truthed"" using underwater video images and seafloor samples obtained by the USGS. These maps display various habitat types that range from flat, soft, unconsolidated sediment-covered seafloor to hard, deformed (folded), or highly rugose and differentially eroded bedrock exposures.)
s1c08sc_video_observations (This part of DS 781 presents video observations from cruise S1C08SC for the Santa Barbara Channel region and beyond in southern California. The vector data file is included in ""s1c08sc_video_observations.zip,"" which is accessible from https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/video_observations/data_catalog_video_observations.html. Between 2006 and 2007, the seafloor southern California was mapped by California State University, Monterey Bay, Seafloor Mapping Lab (CSUMB) and by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), using both multibeam echosounders and bathymetric sidescan sonar units. These mapping missions combined to collect bathymetry and acoustic-backscatter data from about the 10-m isobath to out beyond the 3-nautical-mile limit of California's State Waters. To validate the interpretations of sonar data in order to turn it into geologically and biologically useful information, the USGS ground-truth surveyed the data by towing camera sleds over specific locations throughout the region. During the 2008 ground-truth cruise, the camera sled housed two video cameras (one forward looking and the other vertical looking), a high-definition video camera, and an 8-megapixel digital still camera. The video was fed in real time to the research vessel, where USGS and NOAA scientists recorded both the geologic and biologic character of the seafloor into programmable keypads once every minute. In addition to recording the seafloor characteristics, a digital still photograph was captured once every 30 seconds. This ArcGIS shape file includes the position of the camera, the time each observation was started, and the visual observations of geologic and biologic habitat.)
Highlights
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GPS --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Global positioning system (GPS) data s-1c-08-sc.060 (Provisional best file)

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