Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Nathaniel Plant
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Imagery: Other Imagery, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: LIDAR, Location-Elevation: Navigation
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Monitor beach erosion for Kennedy Space Center
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Port Canaveral, Florida
End Port/Location: Ponce Inlet, Florida
Start Date: 2009-05-27
End Date: 2009-05-29
Equipment Used: Digital Camera, Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera, Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL), GPS , GPS topographic survey buggy
Information to be Derived: Beach Topography and Bathymetry
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Cape Canaveral Beaches, FL
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 29.10903239 | South: 28.17848581 | West: -81.06646299 | East: -80.41008145 |
Platform(s):
Goby |
Bonisteel-Cormier, J.M., Nayegandhi, A., Plant, N., Wright, C.W., Nagle, D.B., Serafin, K., Klipp, E.S., 2010, EAARL coastal topography - Cape Canaveral, Florida, 2009: First surface: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 585, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds585.
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.
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.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Camera | --- | Photo Video | |
| Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera | --- | Other Imagery | |
| Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) | --- | LIDAR | 09ACH02-LI-pd-1 (lidar-derived first-surface (FS) topographyÔøΩGISÔøΩdatasets of a portion of the eastern Florida coastline beachface) 09ACH02_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20090528 in Florida) |
| GPS | --- | Navigation | |
| GPS topographic survey buggy | --- | Benchmarks Navigation Profiles Transects |
