Field Activity 13BIM07

Identifier 13BIM07
Purpose To measure seafloor changes and estimate sediment transport volumes
Location Chandeleur Islands, LA
Summary Interferometric swath bathymetry (70 lines), interferometric backscatter (70 lines), and chirp sub-bottom profiles(3 lines), sound velocity profile casts (24)
Info derived bathymetry, seafloor texture, stratigraphy
Comments FACS logs generated digitally by D. Wiese and Jennifer Miselis.
Projects
Platform
Sallenger
26' Parker
Vehicles
Ford F-350 Dually White (GSA)
Itinerary
Start Biloxi, MS 2013-08-22
End Biloxi, MS 2013-09-01
Bounds
West -89.0098
East -88.51539965
North 30.13212925
South 29.4549811
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

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

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Sub Bottom Profiler, Interferometric, Sound Velocity

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Valeport MiniSVS Sound Velocity (no data expected)
Other Unknown, Multichannel, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sparker, Bubble Gun, Air Gun / Water Gun, Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Sonobuoy (no data expected)
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Benchmarks, Navigation 1
Valeport SVP Sound Velocity (no data reported)
Chirp 424 Sub Bottom Profiler 3
F190 DGPS/IMU Navigation (no data reported)
Interferometric Bathymetry System Interferometric 4

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Data Series 897 nav Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Chirp 424 data navigation Arnell S Forde
13BIM07 Profiles Chirp 424 Chirp 424 data profiles Arnell S Forde
13 BIM07 SEGY Chirp 424 Chirp 424 data agc SEGY Arnell S Forde
Data Series 897 arc Chirp 424 Chirp 424 data GIS Arnell S Forde
Chan13_GIS.zip Interferometric Bathymetry System Esri ArcGIS project Nancy T DeWitt
Chan13_IFB_tracklines.zip Interferometric Bathymetry System Swath tracklines Nancy T DeWitt
Chan13_IFB_xyz.zip Interferometric Bathymetry System Swath data 5-m BASE resolution Nancy T DeWitt
Chandeleurs_2013_50_NAD83_NAVD88_GEOID09_DEM.zip Interferometric Bathymetry System Bathymetry DEM 50-m cell size Nancy T DeWitt

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity