Summary Information for Field Activity 2008-002-FA

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

Dates: April 28, 2008 to May 09, 2008

Chief scientist: Walter Barnhardt

Objectives: Complete sea floor mapping in western Cape Cod Bay.

Type of Activity: Sea floor mapping;Sea floor mapping

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

Summary: 7 survey days of data collection.

Contact: Brian Andrews (bandrews@usgs.gov)

InfoBank: uses the identifier R-1-08-CD. Visit this site for more information.

Related Links:

- Download 08002.kml to view this field activity in Google Earth

Platform Info:

RAFAEL

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

Processed-SWATHplus Interferometric bathymetry tracklines.

5-m ASCII raster of SWATHplus Interferometric bathymetry data.

Geophysics

Navigation

Hypack navigation data: 66 lines.

Logs

Seismics

PROCESSED DATA

PUBLISHED DATA: Seismic profiles (jpg), Seismic Shots (shapefile), and seismic tracklines (shapefile).

Sonar

Processed Klein backscatter: 1-m sidescan sonar mosaic of survey area.

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