1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System
  3. Dataset 30107

Dataset description: 2012-010-FA-BA-001

518 kilometers of bathymetric data collected between July 1-3, 2013 on board the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster using their SIMRAD EM1002 (95 kHz). Woods Hole to Woods Hole
Comments:
Processed depth data will be published in USGS OFR 2012-1266, Bathymetric Terrain Model of the Atlantic Margin for Marine Geological Investigations.

Contacts

Contact
Brian Andrews
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Location of materials and files

Physical mediaData are archived with NGDC in MB-System mb56 format. USGS archived the original Simrad Raw.all format in Woods Hole Data Library.
Public fileshttp://surveys.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/MB/ocean/nancy_foster/NF1208_USGS/multibeam/data/version1/MB/

Activities and equipment

ActivityEquipment
2012-010-FAEchosounder
Generic echosounder used to calculate water depth by measuring the time it takes for the acoustic signal to reach the bottom and the echo to return to the transducer. Used when the specific echosounder is either unknown, or more details are given in equipment usage.