| Identifier | 2010-072-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Collect bathymetric data within Muskeget Channel and surrounding area. | ||||||||
| Location | Muskeget Channel, Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | Approximately 175 km of swath bathymetric data were collected within Muskeget Channel and adjacent areas to map the topography. | ||||||||
| Comments | 3 days of surveying are needed. A two-week period is reserved in case of weather. 3 days will also be needed at the end of October. Due to windy conditions, cruise dates were extended into the first 2 weeks of October. | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | Jane F Denny | ||||||
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| Data category: | Sonar, Location-Elevation |
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| Data type: | Interferometric, Multibeam, Navigation |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz | Interferometric | (no data reported) | |
| Real Time Kinematic GPS | Navigation | (no data reported) |
| Dataset name | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 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 |
