5-meter acoustic backscatter image collected by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., offshore of Fire Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and U.S. Geological Survey mapping effort (UTM zone 18N, WGS 84, Esri binary grid file format)

Hurricane Sandy, the largest storm of historical record in the Atlantic basin, severely impacted southern Long Island, New York in October 2012. In 2014, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), conducted a high-resolution multibeam echosounder survey with Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., offshore of Fire Island and western Long Island, New York to document the post-storm conditions of the inner continental shelf. The objectives of the survey were to determine the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the inner continental shelf morphology and modern sediment distribution, and provide additional geospatial data for sediment transport studies and coastal change model development.
For more information about the WHCMSC Field Activity, see http://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2014-072-FA.

2012年10月，大西洋盆地有记录以来规模最大的风暴——飓风桑迪（Hurricane Sandy），对美国纽约州长岛南部造成了严重影响。2014年，美国地质调查局（U.S. Geological Survey, USGS）联合美国陆军工程兵团（U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USACE），与Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc.合作，在纽约州火岛近海及长岛西部海域开展了高分辨率多波束回声测深（multibeam echosounder）调查，以记录内大陆架（inner continental shelf）的风暴后状态。本次调查的目标为明确飓风桑迪对内大陆架地貌与现代沉积物分布的影响，并为沉积物输运研究及海岸变化模型开发提供补充地理空间数据。
如需了解WHCMSC野外作业的更多信息，请访问：http://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2014-072-FA。