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Field Activity Details for field activity 10LTS03

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Other ID: Louisiana barrier island sand berm survey

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): John Brock, Amar Nayegandhi, Abby Sallenger, C Wayne Wright

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Amar Nayegandhi

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Obtain high-resolution topographic data.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Stennis Airport, MS

End Port/Location: Stennis Airport, MS

Start Date: 2010-07-24

End Date: 2010-07-24

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

Information to be Derived: Sub-aerial topography, geo-reference digital camera imagery.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Unable to collect color-infrared imagery during flight.

Staff: C Wayne Wright

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Unable to collect color-infrared imagery during flight.

Location:

Dauphin Island, AL Chandeleur Islands, LA and Oil Spill Sand Berm

Boundaries
North: 30.53427105 South: 29.9014543 West: -89.6456 East: -87.49555004

Platform(s):


Goby

Publications

Kranenburg, C.J., Long, J.W., Zawada, D.G., 2016, EAARL coastal topographyâDauphin Island, 2010: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F74Q7S3M.

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.

Malagon-Santos, V., Wahl, T., Long, J.W., Passeri, D.L., Plant, N.G., 2019, Surrogate model development for coastal dune erosion under storm conditions: Coastal Sediments, , doi: 10.1142/9789811204487_0116.

Mickey, R.C., Dalyander, P.S., McCall, R., Passeri, D.L., 2020, Idealized antecedent topography sensitivity study: Initial baseline and modified profiles modeled with XBeach: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VD60JC.

Mickey, R.C., Dalyander, P.S., McCall, R., Passeri, D.L., 2020, Sensitivity of Storm Response to Antecedent Topography in the XBeach Model: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Jmse, v. 8 no. 10, 829 p., doi: 10.3390/jmse8100829.

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.

Thompson, D.M., Dalyander, P.S., Long, J.W., Plant, N.G., 2017, Correction of elevation offsets in multiple co-located lidar datasets: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1031, 15 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171031.

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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Red Green Blue (RGB) Digital Camera --- Other Imagery
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) --- LIDAR
10LTS03_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20100724 in Alabama)
BONNIE2010_Dauphin_EAARLA_FS_n88g96.zip (Lidar-derived first-surface topography for Dauphin Island, AL.)
BONNIE2010_Dauphin_EAARLA_BE_n88g96.zip (Lidar-derived bare-earth topography for Dauphin Island, AL.)
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video
GPS --- Navigation
Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera --- Other Imagery

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