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Field Activity Details for field activity 08ACH04

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Other ID: Xstorms.h20080904

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): M. Dennis Krohn, Karen L M Morgan, Abby Sallenger

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Kristy Guy

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Map Post Storm Beach Configuration

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: St Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: St Petersburg, FL

Start Date: 2008-09-04

End Date: 2008-09-04

Equipment Used: Digital Video, Digital Camera, GPS

Information to be Derived: Oblique Air Photos

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 862 Digital still photos (jpg), 6.5 hours analog S-VHS, 2 hours digital video, trackline (FUGAWI), trackline (txt)

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Equipment: Garmin GPS 18PC WAAS-enabled B&B Electronics 232BSS4 GPS Signal Splitter(4 way) Nikon D1-X Digital Format: Raw NEF Files, Connection: Fire wire Sony DCR-VX1000 “Handycam” Mini-DV tapes (1 hr) Connection: S-VHS Cable S-VHS Panasonic AG-5700 -Fuji H471S Archival S-VHS Tape (2 hr) Compix LP701 JVC TM-900SU Panasonic Tough book CF-51 Fugawi Marine ENC Optima Model SPR 12-Volt “Blue top” Batteries Persister CommLogger. Pilot: Robert Kent AP Reporter: Cain Burdeau (New Orleans) AP Photographer: Eric Gay (San Antonio)

Location:

Chandeleur and Central Barrier Islands, LA

Boundaries
North: 30.39466044 South: 29.33654474 West: -89.636 East: -87.83424697

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Publications

Doran, K.S., Stockdon, H.F., Plant, N.G., Sallenger, A.H., Jr., Guy, K.K., Serafin, K.A., 2009, Hurricane Gustav: Observations and analysis of coastal change: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1279, 28 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20091279.

Morgan, K.L.M., 2018, Post-Hurricane Gustav coastal oblique aerial photographs collected from the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, to Isles Dernieres Barrier Islands Refuge, Louisiana, September 4, 2008: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P95I5JXR.

Stockdon, H.F., Doran, K., Serafin, K.A., 2010, Coastal change on Gulf Islands National Seashore during Hurricane Gustav: West Ship, East Ship, Horn, and Petit Bois Islands: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1090, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20101090.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 08ACH04 has data viewable in the CMGP Video and Photograph Portal. View the data in this application here. See the instructions for working with this application.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Digital Video --- Video
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video
08ACH04_0904_...zip (Images divided into folders by area and flight path segment)
GPS --- Navigation
08ACH04-ProcessedNav (Processed navigation files, includes flightpath and photo locations (.csv))
08ACH04-RawGPSNav (Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx raw navigation file)

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