USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor , United States of America
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.34946/D6N30Q | |
| Project Name | USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor |
| Country | United States of America |
| Status | Published |
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| Spatial Data | Download (Links to all available data types will be emailed) |
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| Data Derivatives - DSM/Ortho | 0.16 GB | Not available | Not available |
| Background |
| Site Description | The USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class battleship commissioned in 1916 that served the U.S. Navy for 25 years before meeting its tragic end at Pearl Harbor. On December 7, 1941, during the Japanese surprise attack, the Arizona suffered catastrophic damage when an armor-piercing bomb struck near the forward ammunition magazines, triggering a massive explosion that tore the ship apart. The blast was so powerful it lifted the battleship's bow out of the water. Within nine minutes, the Arizona sank, taking 1,177 crew members with her—nearly half of all American casualties that day.
The wreck remains where it sank in the harbor, serving as the final resting place for most of those lost. In 1962, the USS Arizona Memorial was built spanning the sunken hull, allowing visitors to pay respects without disturbing the ship itself. The memorial attracts over two million visitors annually and stands as the most emotionally powerful site at Pearl Harbor. | |
| Project Description | The Sonic 2024 was used to survey most of the Arizona using a small vessel of opportunity. Due to very shallow water and the Memorial itself, a Sonic 2020 was mounted on an Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) to survey the areas where the manned vessel could not survey. The USS Utah was surveyed solely with the Sonic 2024. R2Sonic I2NS provided inertial navigation. QPS QINSy software was used for the multibeam data collection. Multibeam data were post processed in QINSy, Fledermaus, and HyPack. Applanix POSPac processing was also employed for PPK positioning. LIDAR was used to scan the above-water structures. Dive teams performed visual inspection and photographed the hull structures.
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| External Project Link | View exhibit |
| Collection Date | 2016-01-01 to 2016-01-01 |
| Publication Date | 2026-01-14 |
| License Type | CC BY |
| Model Information |
| Reuse Score | B - High-Quality Model without Georeferencing |
| Curator Notes | This dataset is only a derivative product, lacking raw data for reprocessing. Though the project description mentions above water terrestrial LiDAR, this model seems to only include the below water model from multibeam sonar. |
| Entities |
| Contributors | US National Park Service Submerged Resource Center, Autodesk , R2Sonic |
| Citation |
| US National Park Service Submerged Resource Center, Autodesk, R2Sonic 2026: USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor - Data Derivatives - DSM/Ortho. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D6N30Q |
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