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

Field Activity 2007-016-FA

Identifier 2007-016-FA
Purpose Survey Middle Ground with SwathPlus interferometric system.
Location Middle Ground, Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Collected 26 lines of swath bathymetric data using the SEA SwathPlus system.
Info derived Sea floor map;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Bill Danforth - Data acquisition and processing; Chuck Worley - Captain/mobilization; Emile Bergeron - Data acquisition/mobilization; Barry Irwin - Navigation; Rich Signell - Science. Project = Middle Ground, Middle Ground
Platform
Rafael
25 feet
Itinerary
Start Falmouth Harbor, MA 2007-05-10
End Falmouth Harbor, MA 2007-05-10
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -70.6778
East -70.65694
North 41.48333
South 41.46667

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators William W Danforth
Crew members
William W Danforth
Scientist, Staff
Richard P Signell
Scientist, Staff
Emile Bergeron
Scientist, Staff
Charles R Worley
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
William W Danforth
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Rich Signell

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz Interferometric (no data reported)
Echosounder Single Beam (no data reported)
Loran-C Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity