The Fire Island Wilderness Breach Bathymetric Data collected with Personal Watercraft and Backpack in Fire Island, New York (2014) as a GeoTIFF

Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal
and Marine Science Center in St. Petersburg, Florida, conducted a
bathymetric survey of Fire Island, New York, from October 5 to 10,
2014. The U.S. Geological Survey is involved in a post-Hurricane
Sandy effort to map and monitor the morphologic evolution of the
wilderness breach, which formed in October 2012 during Hurricane
Sandy, as part of the Hurricane Sandy Supplemental Project GS2-2B.
During this study, bathymetry data were collected, using single-beam
echo sounders and global positioning systems mounted to personal
watercraft, along the Fire Island shoreface and within the
wilderness breach, Fire Island Inlet, Narrow Bay, and Great South
Bay east of Nicoll Bay. Additional bathymetry and elevation data
were collected using backpack and wheel-mounted global positioning
systems along the subaerial beach (foreshore and backshore), and
flood shoals and shallow channels within the wilderness breach and
adjacent shoreface.

美国地质调查局（U.S. Geological Survey）佛罗里达州圣彼得斯堡海岸与海洋科学中心的科研人员，于2014年10月5日至10日对纽约州火岛（Fire Island）开展了水深测量作业。美国地质调查局正参与“桑迪飓风补充项目GS2-2B”，该项目作为桑迪飓风灾后响应工作的一部分，旨在测绘并监测2012年10月桑迪飓风（Hurricane Sandy）期间形成的荒野溃口（wilderness breach）的地貌演化过程。本研究中，科研人员依托搭载于个人水上载具的单波束测深仪（single-beam echo sounders）与全球定位系统（Global Positioning System, GPS），沿火岛滨面、火岛入海口、狭窄湾（Narrow Bay）、尼科尔湾东侧的大南湾（Great South Bay）以及该荒野溃口内部采集了水深数据。此外，科研人员还采用背负式与车载式全球定位系统，沿陆上海滩（前滨与后滨）、荒野溃口及邻近滨面内的涨潮浅滩与浅水道采集了补充的水深与高程数据。