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    "tag": 19727,
    "title": "USGS CoastCam CACO-01 at Head of the Meadow Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts (2019 to 2024): Imagery Data",
    "pubdate": "20260205",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "doi:10.5066\/P95C0DGM",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/SB_data_release\/DR_P95C0DGM\/CACO01_imagery_metadata.faq.html",
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    "descript": "Two digital video cameras (CACO-01 c1 and c2) were installed at Head of the Meadow Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts as part of a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research project to study the beach and nearshore environment. The cameras were located near the top of the 18-meter-high bluff and faced north-east (c1) and east (c2) along the beach. They ran from December 2019 through March 2024, and when properly functioning, the cameras collected 10 minutes of raw video and produced snapshots and time-averaged image products every half hour. This data release includes the raw imagery products and the necessary intrinsic orientation (IO) and extrinsic orientation (EO) calibration data to utilize the imagery to make quantitative measurements from the imagery. USGS researchers analyzed the imagery collected from these cameras to remotely sense a range of information including shoreline position, sandbar migration, wave run-up on the beach, alongshore currents, and nearshore bathymetry. These cameras are part of the USGS CoastCam network, supported by the Total Water Level\/Coastal Change Project in the USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Natural Hazards Mission Area.",
    "lang": null,
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Over, Jin-Si R.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Sherwood, Christopher R.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Marsjanik, Eric D.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Borden, Jonathan S.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Martini, Marinna A.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Lange, Athina M.Z.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Marsjanik, Eric D.",
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        }
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            "code": "1799",
            "name": "coastal processes",
            "scope": "Processes unique to coastal areas including longshore transport, beach erosion, storm surge, shoreline change, delta formation, barrier island migration, beach stabilization by vegetation"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "317",
            "name": "ecosystem monitoring",
            "scope": "Recording, evaluating, and actively intervening over time in the interaction of living and nonliving elements in a specific environment."
        },
        {
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            "code": "376",
            "name": "field methods",
            "scope": "Research procedures and instrumental means to measure, collect data and samples, and observe in the natural areas where the materials, phenomena, structures, or species being studied occur."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "468",
            "name": "geomorphology",
            "scope": "Branch of geology dealing with surface land features and the processes that create and change them."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "574",
            "name": "image analysis",
            "scope": "Pattern analysis of the shapes and textures of images to identify features and derive information about them."
        },
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            "name": "image collections",
            "scope": "Visible representations of objects or earth properties produced by cameras, spectral instruments, or as graphical representations of measurements."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "818",
            "name": "ocean sciences",
            "scope": "Sciences involved in the study of geological, biological, chemical, and physical characteristics and processes of the oceans."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1672",
            "name": "optical methods",
            "scope": "Measurement of light transmission or reflectance in the field to estimate, for example, the density of suspended sediment in water bodies."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "889",
            "name": "photography",
            "scope": "Process of using digital or film cameras to collect images of objects."
        },
        {
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            "name": "remote sensing",
            "scope": "Acquiring information about a natural feature or phenomenon, such as the Earth's surface, without actually being in contact with it. USGS remote sensing is usually carried out with airborne or spaceborne sensors or cameras."
        },
        {
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            "code": "1273",
            "name": "video monitoring",
            "scope": "Field study employing the use of filming or repeated photography with stationary optical or digital cameras to observe changes in a feature or organism."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "006",
            "name": "elevation",
            "scope": "Height above or below sea level, for example altitude, bathymetry, digital elevation models, slope, derived products, DEMs, TINs"
        },
        {
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            "code": "008",
            "name": "geoscientificInformation",
            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
    ],
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        {
            "thcode": 1,
            "code": "fUS",
            "name": "United States",
            "scope": "country",
            "pname": "North America"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 1,
            "code": "h01090002",
            "name": "Cape Cod",
            "scope": "hydrologic unit",
            "pname": "Massachusetts-Rhode Island Coastal"
        },
        {
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            "code": "q42094SWB3",
            "name": "Truro",
            "scope": "map quadrangle, 7.5 minute",
            "pname": "Indianola"
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        {
            "thcode": 1,
            "code": "fUS25",
            "name": "Massachusetts",
            "scope": "state",
            "pname": "United States"
        }
    ],
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        {
            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/60d5fd5bd34e960393670e8a?name=CACO01_CoastCam_browse.png&allowOpen=true",
            "description": "Location map and field of view of CoastCam CACO01."
        }
    ],
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        "2021-013-FA",
        "2022-009-FA",
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