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Field Activity Details for field activity 05LTS07

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Other ID: PAIS

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

Vehicle(s): None

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End Port/Location:

Start Date: 2005-09-29

End Date: 2005-10-02

Equipment Used: Digital Camera, Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera, GPS , Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL)

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Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

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Location:

Texas, Padre Island

Boundaries
North: 28.129 South: 26.321 West: -97.466 East: -96.949

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Publications

Brock, J.C., Wright, C.W., Nayegandhi, A., Patterson, M., Wilson, I., 2007, EAARL topography - Padre Island National Seashore, Texas: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1431, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20071431.

Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Birchler, J.J.,, B., O.T., Hardy, M.W., Morgan, K.L.M., Stockdon, H.F., Torres, M.L., 2017, Lidar-derived beach morphology (dune crest, dune toe, and shoreline) for U.S. sandy coastlines: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0S0Z.

Long, J.W., Henderson, R.E., Thompson, D.M., 2020, Forecasting future beach width-A case study along the Florida Atlantic coast: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2019-1150, 20 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20191150.

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.

Stockdon, H.F., Doran, K., Thompson, D., Sopkin, K., 2012, National assessment of hurricane-induced coastal erosion hazards: Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1084, 51 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20121084.

Stockdon, H.F., Long, J.W., Palmsten, M.L., Van der Westhuysen, A., Doran, K.S., Snell, R.J., 2023, Operational forecasts of wave-driven water levels and coastal hazards for US Gulf and Atlantic coasts: Communications Earth & Environment, v. 4 no. 1, 169 p., doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00817-2.

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
Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera --- Other Imagery
GPS --- Navigation
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) --- LIDAR
05LTS07-LI-pd-9 (Lidar-derived Bare Earth (BE) tile extent shapefile for Padre Island National Seashore in Texas)
05LTS07-LI-pd-7 (Lidar-derived Bare Earth (BE) hillshade grid for Padre Island National Seashore in Texas)
05LTS07-LI-pd-8 (Lidar-derived Bare Earth (BE) contour shapefile for Padre Island National Seashore in Texas)
05LTS07-LI-pd-6 (Lidar-derived Bare Earth (BE) DEM geotiffs for Padre Island National Seashore in Texas)
05LTS07_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20050930-20051002 in Texas)

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