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Field Activity Details for field activity 03LTS05

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Lidar for Science and Resource Management (MN00E3J)

Principal Investigator(s): John Brock

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Emily Klipp

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Scientific Purpose/Goals: to collect lidar data

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End Port/Location:

Start Date: 2003-02-25

End Date: 2003-02-25

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

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Affiliate Staff:

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Location:

Assateague Island (VA-MD border)

Boundaries
North: 38.70558889 South: 37.49261389 West: -75.7824 East: -74.82508056

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Publications

Kranenburg, C.J., Fredericks, X., Nagle, D.B., 2017, EAARL coastal topographyâNorthern Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland and Virginia, 2003: Bare earth: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7PV6HKJ.

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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video
GPS --- Navigation
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) --- LIDAR
ASIS2003_ EAARLA_BE_z18_n88g99.xyz (Lidar-derived bare-earth topography point cloud for northern Assateague Island National Seashore.)
ASIS2003_ EAARLA_BE_z18_n88g99_mosaic.tif (Lidar-derived bare-earth topography DEM for northern Assateague Island National Seashore.)

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