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CSL
Plover June 1996: As part of a transit down the Saint John
River in 1996, the CSL Plover, with an EM3000 paused aboved the
Reversing Falls, waiting for the slack water period.
- Sonar : EM3000
- Positioning : DGPS - Coastguard Corrections
- Motion : POS/MV 310
- Sound Speed Data - unlikely to have measured one.
- Vertical Datum : Environment Canada Indiantown
Gauge..
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CSL
Plover May 2000: As
part of Hydrocamp 2000, about a week of EM3000 data was acquired of the
western Kennebecasis, based out of the RKYC.
- Sonar : EM3000
- Positioning : DGPS - a mix of Coastguard Corrections and
UNBSJ rooftop base station
- Motion : POS/MV 310
- Sound Speed Data - twice daily SVP's.
- Vertical Datum : local gauge installed at RKYC (unreliable)
and - Indiantown Gauge..
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CSL
Heron April 2002: As part of the first trials of the CSL Heron
in April 2002, the
- Sonar : EM3000
- Positioning : DGPS - Coastguard Corrections
- Motion : Seatex Seapath 200 (?) - with MRU6 backup
- Sound Speed Data - twice daily SVP's.
- Vertical Datum : Environment Canada Indiantown Gauge.
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CSL
Heron Nov. 2002: At the end of the season, two days were used
to expand the coverage of the Kennebecasis.
- Sonar : EM3000
- Positioning : DGPS - Coastguard Corrections? or Racal
Landstar
- Motion : MRU6 with speed aiding
- Sound Speed Data - twice daily SVP's.
- Vertical Datum : Manual tidestaff readings at Saint
John Marina and Environment Canada Indiantown Gauge.
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CSL
Heron May 2003: Hydrocamp 2003 took place in Grand Bay and the
Westfield Channel, based out of the Saint John Marina.
- Sonar : EM3000
- Positioning : DGPS - Coastguard Corrections (or
Racal Landstar?)
- Motion : MRU6 with speed aiding
- Sound Speed Data - twice daily SVP's.
- Vertical Datum : Automated tidegauge at Saint John
Marina and Environment Canada Indiantown Gauge.
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CSL
Heron Sept. 2004: At the end of the field season, the Heron was
used for GGE3353 undergraduate training and undertook an extra 2 days
of mapping in the Kennebecasis.
- Sonar : EM3000
- Positioning : DGPS - Coastguard Corrections or
CNav?
- Motion : Coda Octopus F180 with backup of MRU6 with speed
aidingAll_Kenn.Combo.sun_315
- Sound Speed Data - twice daily SVP's.
- Vertical Datum : Environment Canada Indiantown Gauge.
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CSL
Heron May-June 2005: In May, inital tests prior to Hydrocamp
2005 off Deer Island were undertaken (with a bad motino sensor). After
the camp the vessel returned prior to deployment to Quebec City (where
she was subsequently sunk).
- Sonar : EM3000
- Positioning : CNav
- Motion : May - MRU6 only (no speed aiding , June Coda
Octopus F180
- Sound Speed Data - twice daily SVP's.
- Vertical Datum : Environment Canada Indiantown Gauge.
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CSL
Heron Nov. 2008: As part of a break in the oceanographic tidal
cycle program in Saint John harbour, the Heron was used to resurvey
the entire gorge upstream of the Reversing Falls.
- Sonar : EM3002
- Positioning : CNav
- Motion : M Coda Octopus F185
- Sound Speed Data - multiple SVP's.
- Vertical Datum : Environment Canada Indiantown Gauge.
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CSL
Plover Oct. 2009: While waiting out a storm , the Plover, based
off the CCGS Mattherw, came above the falls at UNB request to resurvey
the erosional flutes in the Westfield channel.
- Sonar : EM3002
- Positioning : Fugro OmniStar
- Motion : POS/NV 320 v.4
- Sound Speed Data - twice daily SVP's.
- Vertical Datum : Environment Canada Indiantown Gauge.
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