Field Activity 2011-057-FA

Identifier 2011-057-FA
Purpose Test new equipment
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;,
Summary Several lines were run with two sidescan-sonar systems to compare operation of each system. Field effort was for test purposes only.
Comments Project = Marine Tech/Sea Floor Mapping,
Platform
Rafael
25 feet
Itinerary
Start falmouth, ma 2011-12-12
End falmouth, ma 2011-12-16
Bounds
West -70.8135
East -70.32074
North 41.75212
South 41.4489

Personnel

Organization Equipment or personnel support provided by
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators William W DanforthEric MooreCharles R WorleyBarry J Irwin
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Eric Moore
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Sidescan

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
Edgetech 4200 sidescan Sidescan (no data reported)
Edgetech Sidescan sonar Sidescan (no data reported)
Klein 531 sidescan Sidescan (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity