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Field Activity Details for field activity 08ACH05

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Other ID: Xstorms.h20080909

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Karen L M Morgan

Affiliate Investigator(s): Karen Westphal

Information Specialist(s): Karen L M Morgan

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Map Pre-Storm Beach Configuration

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Port Arthur, TX

End Port/Location: Brownsville, TX

Start Date: 2008-09-09

End Date: 2008-09-10

Equipment Used: Digital Camera, GPS

Information to be Derived: Oblique Air Photos

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 1,492 images were collected during the survey.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Texas Coastline

Boundaries
North: 30.16768886 South: 26.1588711 West: -99.2696 East: -94.15326556

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Publications

Doran, K.S., Plant, N.G., Stockdon, H.F., Sallenger, A.H., Jr., Serafin, K.A., 2009, Hurricane Ike: Observations and analysis of coastal change: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1061, 35 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20091061.

Morgan, K.L.M., Westphal, K.A., 2016, Baseline coastal oblique aerial photographs collected from Calcasieu Lake, Louisiana, to Brownsville, Texas, September 9-10, 2008: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 991, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds991.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 08ACH05 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 Camera --- Photo
Video
DS 991 photos (Baseline coastal oblique aerial photographs collected from Calcasieu Lake, Louisiana, to Brownsville, Texas, September 9-10, 2008)
GPS --- Navigation

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