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Field Activity Details for field activity 12CCH04

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Other ID: h20121101

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Hurricane Sandy - Coastal Mapping Products & Impact Assessments (AE03FBP), National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards(1) (MN000J7)

Principal Investigator(s): M. Dennis Krohn, Karen L M Morgan, Nathaniel Plant, Hilary Stockdon

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Other

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Document Impact of Hurricane Sandy, including erosion, overwash and inundation.

Vehicle(s): Unknown

Start Port/Location: St Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: St Petersburg, FL

Start Date: 2012-11-04

End Date: 2012-11-06

Equipment Used: GPS , Digital Camera

Information to be Derived: Oblique Aerial Photography

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 66,793 images collected DS857 - http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0858/

Staff: Other

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: 3 day mission.
66,793 images collected
DS857 - http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0858/

Location:

Northeast, Impact zone of Hurricane Sandy

Boundaries
North: 41.59022713 South: 34.32994959 West: -78.5714 East: -70.92816723

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Publications

Doran, K.S., Stockdon, H.F., Sopkin, K.L., Thompson, D.M., Plant, N.G., 2013, National assessment of hurricane-induced coastal erosion hazards: Mid-Atlantic coast: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1131, 28 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131131.

Douglas, S.H., Bernier, J.C., Smith, K.E.L., 2018, Analysis of multi-decadal wetland changes, and cumulative impact of multiple storms 1984 to 2017: Wetlands Ecology and Management, Wetlands Ecol Manage, v. 26 no. 6, pp. 1121–1142, doi: 10.1007/s11273-018-9635-6.

Hapke, C.J., Brenner, O., Hehre, R., Reynolds, B.J., 2013, Coastal Change from Hurricane Sandy and the 2012-2013 Winter Storm Season: Fire Island, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1231, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131231.

Miselis, J.L., Lorenzo-Trueba, J., 2017, Natural and human-induced variability in barrier-island response to sea level rise: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 44 no. 23, pp. 11922–11931, doi: 10.1002/2017gl074811.

Morgan, K.L.M., Krohn, M.D., 2014, Post-Hurricane Sandy coastal oblique aerial photographs collected from Cape Lookout, North Carolina, to Montauk, New York, November 4-6, 2012: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 858, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds858.

Morgan, K.L.M., Snell, R.J., Plant, N.G., 2018, iCoast - Did the coast change? Crowd-sourced coastal classifications for Hurricane Sandy: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P93A9MPE.

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.

Sopkin, K.L., Stockdon, H.F., Doran, K.S., Plant, N.G., Morgan, K.L.M., Guy, K.K., Smith, K.E.L., 2014, Hurricane Sandy: observations and analysis of coastal change: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014-1088, 64 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141088.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 12CCH04 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
GPS Collection of GPS dataNavigation
DS 858 nav (raw and processed navigation data)
Digital CameraDigital PhotographyPhoto
Video
DS 858 photos (oblique photos contact sheets of jpeg images)
iCoast-All-Classifications-2012-Hurricane-Sandy-20160909.zip (List of all iCoast classifications as of September 9, 2016)
iCoast-Tag-Selection-Frequencies-2012-Hurricane-Sandy-20160909.zip (List of all available iCoast tags and how often they were selected )
iCoast-User-Classification-Summary-2012-Hurricane-Sandy-20160909.zip (List of user ID numbers, number of attempted and number they completed)
iCoast-UserCrowdTypes.zip (List of user crowd types found in iCoast)

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