| Identifier | 1994-031-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | 94-12 | ||||||||
| Purpose | Sidescan survey LEO-15 area surveyed June 1991 to document storm changes to inner shelf setting. | ||||||||
| Location | Little Egg Inlet, New Jersey, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | This was a 2-ship multidisciplinary acoustical survey: CTDs during daylight, sidescan sonar at night. Early sidescan problems were solved with second QMIPS trigger box. Entire area was successfully surveyed at 150-m spacing. | ||||||||
| Comments | Original Center People field contained: Dave Twichell - co-chief sci., Ken Parolski - marine tech. | ||||||||
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| Organization |
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | David C Twichell | ||||
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| Affiliate principal | Mohsen Badiey - U DE | ||||
| Affiliate staff | Mohsen Badiey - Ch. Sci., 4 grad students - U DE; Steve Forsythe, tech. - NRL-Orlando, FL |
| Data category: | Sonar, Location-Elevation |
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| Data type: | Sidescan, Single Beam, Navigation |
| Name | Description |
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| Cruise report | Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equpment, tabulated informatin, cruise summary, trackmap. |
| Q-Mips log | Q-MIPS log containing line number, file names, start and end times and data acquisition notes. |
| Cruise log | Cruise log with daily narrative of data acquisition and equipment configuration information. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Klein 531 sidescan | Sidescan | 1 | |
| Q-MIPS sidescan sonar system | Computer used to log data. Specifically the cruise report indicates it was the system usually used with the SIS7000. | Sidescan | (no data reported) |
| ODOM 200 kHz depth recorder | Single Beam | (no data reported) | |
| DGPS | Navigation | 2 | |
| Megapulse Accufix 500 LORAN-C | Navigation | (no data reported) |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1994-031-FA-SO-001 | Klein 531 sidescan | Sidescan Sonar Data | David C Twichell |
| 1994-031-FA-LN-001-01 | DGPS | Processed navigation | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1994-031-FA-LN-002 | DGPS | Loran C navigation printout with 5 minute fixes, latitude, longitude, time delays, bearing, speed, etc. | Nancy K. Soderberg |
