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Field Activity Details for field activity 02LTS09

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s):

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Alexandra Fredericks

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Scientific Purpose/Goals: to collect lidar data

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Salisbury, MD

End Port/Location: Salisbury, MD

Start Date: 2002-09-11

End Date: 2002-11-08

Equipment Used: Digital Camera, GPS , Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL)

Information to be Derived: Elevation data

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Elevation data was collected

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Assateague Island (VA-MD border); Fire Island, NY; Cape Cod, MA

Boundaries
North: 43.25805556 South: 36.34995278 West: -74.4781 East: -71.84591111

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Publications

Brenner, O.T., Lentz, E.E., Hapke, C.J., Henderson, R.E., Wilson, K.E., Nelson, T.R., 2018, Characterizing storm response and recovery using the beach change envelope: Fire Island, New York: Geomorphology, v. 300 no. Supplement C, pp. 189–202, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.08.004.

Fredericks, X., Kranenburg, C.J., Nagle, D.B., 2016, EAARL coastal topographyâFire Island, New York, 2002: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7VT1Q7V.

Hapke, C.J., Plant, N.G., Henderson, R.E., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, T.R., 2016, Decoupling processes and scales of shoreline morphodynamics: Marine Geology, v. 381, pp. 42–53, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2016.08.008.

Kranenburg, C.J., Fredericks, X., Nagle, D.B., 2016, EAARL coastal topographyâAssateague Island National Seashore, Maryland and Virginia, 2002: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7NP22J5.

Kranenburg, C.J., Hardy, M.W., Nagle, D.B., 2017, EAARL coastal topographyâCape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, 2002: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7VX0DQ2.

Kranenburg, C.J., Fredericks, X., Nagle, D.B., 2016, EAARL coastal topography, Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland and Virginia, 2002: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https//doi.org/10.5066/F7NP22J5.

Plant, N.G., Smith, K.E.L., Passeri, D.L., Smith, C.G., Bernier, J.C., 2018, Barrier-island and estuarine-wetland physical-change assessment after Hurricane Sandy: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1157, 45 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171157.

Williams, B.N., Schreppel, H.A., Stalk C.A., 2019, Footprints of lidar datasets published at the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center since 2001: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9B616C5.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video
ASIS2002_ EAARLA_BE_z18_n88g99.zip (EAARL bare-earth topography extent for Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland and Virginia; data collected in September 2002 )
GPS --- Navigation
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) --- LIDAR
CACO2002_ EAARLA_BE_z19_n88g12B.xyz (Lidar-derived bare-earth topography point cloud of Cape Cod National Seashore.)
FIIS2002_EAARLA_BE_z18_n88g99.zip (Lidar-derived bare-earth topography XYZ dataset for Fire Island, New York )
FIIS2002_EAARLA_BE_z18_n88g99_mosaic.zip (Lidar-derived bare-earth topography DEM mosaic for Fire Island, New York )
ASIS2002_ EAARLA_FS_z18_n88g99.zip (EAARL first-surface topography extent for Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland and Virginia; data collected in September 2002 )
CACO2002_ EAARLA_FS_z19_n88g12B.xyz (Lidar-derived first-surface topography point cloud of Cape Cod National Seashore.)
CACO2002_EAARLA_BE_z19_n88g12B_mosaic.tif (Lidar-derived bare-earth topography DEM of Cape Cod National Seashore.)
CACO2002_EAARLA_FS_z19_n88g12B_mosaic.tif (Lidar-derived first-surface topography DEM of Cape Cod National Seashore.)

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