Other ID: AST94-1
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Lawrence Poppe
Affiliate Investigator(s): Ralph Lewis - LISRC
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Sonar: Sidescan, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Location-Elevation: Navigation
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Conduct continuous (detailed) and spaced-line 100 kHz sidescan surveys off Hammonasset Beach State Park to determine surficial sediment textural distribution related to active sedimentary processes and evaluate/relate habitats to benthic community.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Hammonasset, CT
End Port/Location: Hammonasset, CT
Start Date: 1994-06-10
End Date: 1994-06-16
Equipment Used: Klein 595 100/500kHz sidescan sonar, Q-MIPS sidescan sonar system, 3.5 kHz, DGPS, Loran-C
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: Lawrence Poppe, Kenneth F. Parolski, Amy Harmon
Affiliate Staff:
Ralph Lewis
Mary Cohen - LISRS
Conn. Geological Survey
CT; Doug Wheat - Yale U.
Notes:
Location:
Hammonasset Beach State Park, central Long Island Sound, Connecticut, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 41.5 | South: 41 | West: -73 | East: -72.2 |
Platform(s):
Asterias |
Poppe, L.J., Polloni, C., eds., 1998, Long Island Sound environmental studies: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (98-502), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr98502.
Title | Survey Equipment | Description |
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Cruise report | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, cruise summary, tracksmaps, examples of sidescan sonar data, line acquisition information. |
Data inventory | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Cruise Curator's field data inventory. |
Navigation log | DGPS | DGPS navigation log indicating line start and ends, latitude and longitude, course and speed. |
Geophysics log | (document not focused on specific equipment) | 3.5 kHz and sidescan sonar log with starts and ends of lines. |
Q-Mips log | Klein 595 100/500kHz sidescan sonar | Q-MIPS log indicating line number, file name, and start and end of lines. |
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Klein 595 100/500kHz sidescan sonar | --- | Sidescan | 1994-029-FA-SO-001 (Collection of paper record displays of sidescan sonar data for lines ) 1994-029-FA-SO-002 (microfilm of LONG ISLAND SOUND) 1994-029-FA-SO-003-01 (Side scan sonar mosaics) 1994-029-FA-SO-003 (Digital tape(s) of SSS 100K L1-4, SSS 100K L5-18,18A,1A,26, SSS 100K L19-25, SSS 100K L27-29,19A-25A, SSS 100K L30-32, SSS 100K L32, SSS 100K L26A-18B, SSS 500K L34, SSS DSP,TST,6,34, ) |
Q-MIPS sidescan sonar system | --- | Sidescan | |
3.5 kHz | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | 1994-029-FA-SE-001 (microfilm of LONG ISLAND SOUND) |
DGPS | --- | Navigation | 1994-029-FA-LN-001 (Floppy disk(s) containing NAV-DGPS, NAV GPS, NAV GPS, NAV GPS? BLANK DISK, NAV GPS, NAV GPS, NAV GPS, NAV GPS, PROGRAM, WAYPOINTS, ) |
Loran-C | --- | Navigation |