Field Activity 10CCT02

Identifier 10CCT02
Purpose To create a complete modern topobathymetric map of the Mississippi barrier islands from Cat Island to Dauphin Island. Data to provide information for the following: sediment budget; assessment of immediate sand resources in the region, modern geologic framework; historical island change measurements; base-level assessment of the seafloor since the 2005 hurricane season
Location Horn Island, MS to Dauphin Island, AL
Summary A total of 192 chirp 2-D sub-bottom profiles, 192 swath, and 102 side scan lines were collected.
Info derived Submetrix swath bathymetry data; shallow sub-botom image profiles and, side-scan sonar mosaics
Comments Shop Staff (Pre-Cruise) - Dave Wegener contributed 1.5 weeks to design and fabrication; Richard Young was boat captain during 2 days of Side Scan equipment testing. Additional equipment: L3900 Klein Side Scan Towfish.
Platform
Tommy Munro
97 feet, 6 inches in length, with a 25 foot beam.
Itinerary
Start Biloxi, Mississippi 2010-03-19
End Biloxi, Mississippi 2010-03-29
Bounds
West -89.6141
East -87.47169814
North 30.55457433
South 29.7939254
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators James G Flocks
Crew members
James G Flocks
Scientist, Staff
Nancy T DeWitt
Scientist, Staff
Pfeiffer, William
Scientist, Staff
Thompson, Philip
Scientist, Staff
Kyle W Kelso
Scientist, Staff
Dana S Wiese
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Arnell S Forde
Specialist, Information
Dana S Wiese
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Other, Electro-Magnetic, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Unknown, Resistivity, Photo, Benchmarks, Navigation, Profiles, Transects, Sub Bottom Profiler, Multibeam, Sidescan, Sound Velocity

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Interferometric Bathymetry System Interferometric 5
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Benchmarks, Navigation 4
Chirp 512i Sub Bottom Profiler 5
Klein Side Scan Sidescan 2
Valeport SVP Sound Velocity (no data reported)
Camera, Digital, Hand Held Photo (no data reported)
F190 DGPS/IMU Navigation (no data expected)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
10cct02_bathy_cover Interferometric Bathymetry System Interferometric swath bathymetric grid in PDF layout Nancy T DeWitt
10cct02_swss_overlay Interferometric Bathymetry System Sidescan sonar backscatter and interferometric swath bathymetry composite grid as PDF layout Nancy T DeWitt
10cct02_sw_v2_50m Interferometric Bathymetry System Interferometric swath bathy grid as GeoTiff, 50-m resolution James G Flocks
DS 577 ArcGIS_Project Interferometric Bathymetry System Data Series 577 GIS dataset Nancy T DeWitt
Sample10cct02_1m Interferometric Bathymetry System Composite ASCII file of sidescan sonar mosaic pixel values and bathymetric depth Nancy T DeWitt
10CCT02-NL-pd-1 Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS HYPACK navigation tracklines in shapefile format Nancy T DeWitt
10CCT02-NL-pd-2 Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS HYPACK navigation tracklines in PDF layout Nancy T DeWitt
10CCT02-NL-pd-3 Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Interferometric swath bathymetry tracklines in PDF layout Nancy T DeWitt
10CCT02-NL-pd-4 Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Sidescan sonar tracklines in PDF layout Nancy T DeWitt
10CCT02-SE-pd-1 Chirp 512i Chirp 512i data navigation Arnell S Forde
10CCT02-SE-pd-2 Chirp 512i Chirp 512i data profiles Arnell S Forde
10CCT02-SE-pd-3 Chirp 512i Chirp 512i data GIS Arnell S Forde
10CCT02-SE-pd-4 Chirp 512i Chirp 512i data GeoMapApp Arnell S Forde
10CCT02-SE-pd-5 Chirp 512i Chirp 512i data agc SEGY Arnell S Forde
10CCT02-BS-pd-1 Klein Side Scan Sidescan sonar mosaic as Geotiff Nancy T DeWitt
10CCT02-BS-pd-2 Klein Side Scan Sidescan sonar mosaic as PDF layout Nancy T DeWitt

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity