Field Activity 2010-033-FA

Identifier 2010-033-FA
Purpose Ground-truth NOAA multibeam surveys H11922 and H11996 in Rhode Island Sound.
Location Rhode Island Sound, Rhode Island, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Comments Ground truthing will be done with the small SEABOSS. Platform will be the R/V RAFAEL. Project = Sea and Lake Floor Mapping: Data off Cape Cod, Sea and Lake Floor Mapping: Data off Cape Cod
Platform
Rafael
25 feet
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2010-07-21
End Woods Hole, MA 2010-07-23
Days in the field 3
Bounds
West -71.543
East -70.8728
North 41.37269
South 41.20759

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Lawrence J Poppe
Crew members
Dann S Blackwood
Scientist, Staff
Kate McMullen
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Lawrence J Poppe
Specialist, Information
Dann S Blackwood
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Visual Identification, Other
Data type: Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological), Photo, Video, Navigation, Biology, Geology, Species ID

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SeaBOSS Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology 3
Digital camera Photo 1
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2010-033-FA-NL-001 SeaBOSS SEABOSS-Video/Camera/Sample Log. Linda P McCarthy
2010-033-FA-VD-001 SeaBOSS Hi8 Video tapes of sea-floor video from the SEABOSS system. Linda P McCarthy
2010-033-FA-VD-002 SeaBOSS Video DVDs of sea-floor video from the SEABOSS system. The DVD's are a better data source than Hi8 tapes. Linda P McCarthy
2010-033-FA-PH-002 Digital camera Photos of deck operations Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity