Summary Information for Field Activity 2007-002-FA

Area of Operations: Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: July 23, 2007 to August 08, 2007

Chief scientist: Walter Barnhardt

Objectives: Geologic mapping of sea floor (geophysics only).

Type of Activity:

Information to be derived: Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps;

Summary: Survey collected 100% coverage with swath bathymetry over an area of approx. 350 km2 in northern Cape Cod Bay. Approx. 1300 line km of sidescan sonar and sub-bottom profiles were also collected. Preliminary data processing took place during survey.

Contact: Brian Andrews (bandrews@usgs.gov)

Related Links: http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2007/12/pubs.html

- Download 07002.kml to view this field activity in Google Earth

Platform Info:

MEGAN T MILLER

Publications resulting from these data

Andrews, Brian D., Ackerman, Seth D., Baldwin, Wayne E., and Barnhardt, Walter A.,2010, Geophysical and sampling data from the inner continental shelf; northern Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1006. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1006/)

Data Types and Locations:

Bathymetry

PUBLISHED DATA: SWATHPlus bathymetry collected during 07002 is published in USGS OFR 2010-1006 in ArcGIS GRID format as part of a merged grid covering all of the Northern Cape Cod Bay survey area.

Logs

Data is in the Data Library - contact Data Manager (bbuczkowski@usgs.gov)

Seismics

Raw SEGY data

Sonar

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