2007-039-FA (CMHRP activity #2077)

Field Activity 2007-039-FA

Identifier

2007-039-FA

Purpose

Completely map the bathymetry surrounding the shoal Middle Ground in Vineyard Sound using swath bathymetric methods.

Location

Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

Collected 13 lines of swath bathymetric data using the SEA SwathPlus system aboard the R/V RAFAEL.

Info derived

Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps;

Comments

Project = Community Sediment Transport Modeling, Community Sediment Transport Modeling

Platform

Rafael

25 feet

Itinerary

Start	Falmouth, MA	2007-10-31
End	Falmouth, MA	2007-10-31
Days in the field	1

Bounds

West	-70.8
East	-70.58333
North	41.5
South	41.4

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

William W DanforthRichard P Signell

Crew members

William W Danforth	Scientist, Staff
Richard P Signell	Scientist, Staff
Charles R Worley	Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin	Scientist, Staff

Information specialist(s)

William W Danforth

Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category:	Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type:	Navigation, Single Beam, Interferometric

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz	Interferometric	(no data reported)
Echosounder	Single Beam	(no data reported)
DGPS	Navigation	1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
2007-039-FA-LN-001	DGPS	Navigation data: x, y, z coordinates for 10/31/07 taken every second; stored in an Excel spreadsheet.	Richard P Signell

Datasets not currently associated with specific equipment

Dataset name	Description	Dataset contact
Ntkt_VS_10m	Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds, southern coast of Cape Cod including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket: continuous bathymetry and topography terrain model of the Massachusetts coastal zone and continental shelf, (32-bit GeoTIFF, UTM 19 NAD 83, NAVD 88 vertical datum)	Brian Andrews
Ntkt_VS_Source	Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds, Southern coast of Cape Cod including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket: Polygon boundaries for source data of a continuous bathymetry and topography terrain model of the Massachusetts coastal zone and continental shelf: (Esri polygon shapefile, Geographic, NAD 83)	Brian Andrews