1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System
  3. Dataset 38009

Dataset description: Fire_Island_2018_xyz_Shapefiles.zip

Single-beam bathymetry and GPS xyz data of both the shoreface and wilderness breach in both WGS84 (G1150) ellipsoid and NAD83 NAVD88 Geoid 12A (.shp)

Contacts

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Chelsea A Stalk
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Location of materials and files

Public fileshttps://doi.org/10.5066/F7PC30N8
Metadatahttps://cmgds.er.usgs.gov/metadata/spcmsc/Fire_Island_2018_metadata.xml

Activities and equipment

ActivityEquipment
2018-322-FASinglebeam Echosounder
A singlebeam echosounder is a widely used hydrographic instrument for measuring water depth by sending a single acoustic pulse directly downward and recording the time it takes for the echo to return from the seabed.