Field Activity 2019-004-FA

Identifier 2019-004-FA
Purpose Sound source measurements of the Simrad EM122 MBES installed on the R/V Sally Ride
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location Offshore San Diego, CA
Summary Participated with personnel from the UNH Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) Joint Hydrographic Center (JHC) in a survey to collect Kongsberg EM122 multibeam echo sounder data over the Navy Southern California Antisubmarine Warfare Range (SOAR). Collected data will be utilized by CCOM personnel to measure near and far field transmit pulses from the EM122 echo sounder. Collected data are not being used by WHCMSC, we participated in the survey as observers.
Info derived MBES bathymetry
Comments Field activity will take place aboard the UNOLS vessel R/V Sally Ride
Projects
Platform
Sally Ride
Length: 238 feet; Beam: 50 feet.
Itinerary
Start San Diego, CA 2019-01-02
End San Diego, CA 2019-01-06
Days in the field 4
Bounds
West -119.20166016
East -118.25683594
North 33.11915023
South 32.50049649

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 Moore
Crew members
William W Danforth
Scientist, Staff
Eric Moore
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
William W Danforth
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Dr. Anthony Lyons, CCOM

Data types and categories

Data category: Sonar
Data type: Multibeam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
EM122 12 kHz multibeam Multibeam (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity