1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 07SCC03

Identifier 07SCC03
Purpose Barrier Island Coastal Monitoring
Location Cheniere Plain, LA
Summary Surveyed more than 511 kilometers of tracklines; Collected 10 days of static base station occupation time on U.S. Geological Survey-Florida Integrated Science Center (USGS-FISC) installed benchmarks and National Geodetic Survey (NGS) benchmarks
Info derived Single beam bathymetry (X, Y, Z) data; purpose being to acquire the latest bathymetry to assist in calculating sediment gain/loss and barrier island migration or degradation
Platform
Survey Cat (Class 3)
Itinerary
Start Cameron, Louisiana 2007-07-17
End Cameron, Louisiana 2007-07-26
Bounds
West -94.481
East -90.89943252
North 29.855136
South 29.16692271
Topic 66
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators James G Flocks
Crew members
Billy J Reynolds
Scientist, Staff
Nancy T DeWitt
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Nancy T DeWitt
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor Interferometric, Single Beam (no data expected)
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)
Marimatech Echosounder Single Beam (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity