Archive of Post-Hurricane Charley Coastal Oblique Aerial Photographs Collected during USGS Field Activity 04CCH01 from Marco Island to Fort DeSoto, Florida, August 15, 2004

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Title:
Archive of Post-Hurricane Charley Coastal Oblique Aerial Photographs Collected during USGS Field Activity 04CCH01 from Marco Island to Fort DeSoto, Florida, August 15, 2004
Abstract:
On August 15, 2004, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted an aerial survey off the southwest coast of Florida, starting in the south at Marco Island to Fort DeSoto in the north. These data along with Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) coastal topographic and bathymetric data collected on August 16, 2004 (Bonisteel and others, 2009), will be used to detect coastal changes such as beach erosion and overwash caused by Hurricane Charley. These data will also be used to track future coastal change. This report serves as an archive of the Post-Hurricane Charley coastal oblique aerial survey photographs, flight path maps, Google Earth files, navigation files, digital Field Activity Collection System (FACS) logs, and Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata. Attribute data including links to digital scans of the photographs are also provided. Latitude, longitude and/or time were gathered simultaneously from video (with latitude/longitude and time stamps), photographs (with time stamps) and a Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR) navigation file (without time) that documented the location of the aircraft. Location data were converted to decimal degrees and merged to create a location and time file that provided estimated location information for where each photograph was taken (see process step below). Slides were digitally scanned as TIFF image files at 3,000 dots per inch and were converted to JPEG image files which are provided here. The header values filename, date/time, location, latitude, longitude, city, state, country, keywords, description (caption), source, contact info, credits, make, model, artist, copyright, image, history, user comments, and comments were added to the digital photograph's EXIF header. Refer to the Process Steps below for more detail on each of these steps.
  1. How might this data set be cited?
    Subino, Janice A., Karen L. M. Morgan, Krohn, M. Dennis, Streubert, Matthew I., Dadisman, Shawn V., and Forde, Arnell S., 2011, Archive of Post-Hurricane Charley Coastal Oblique Aerial Photographs Collected during USGS Field Activity 04CCH01 from Marco Island to Fort DeSoto, Florida, August 15, 2004: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 651, U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg, FL.

    Online Links:

    Other_Citation_Details:
    Ancillary files included in this release 04cch01_mnl.csv, 04cch01_plgr.txt, 04cch01.csv, 04cch01n.kml, 04cch01s.kml, table_1.txt
  2. What geographic area does the data set cover?
    West_Bounding_Coordinate: -82.769374
    East_Bounding_Coordinate: -81.761751
    North_Bounding_Coordinate: 27.611957
    South_Bounding_Coordinate: 25.927362
  3. What does it look like?
    DVD/maps/all.jpg (JPEG)
    Location map of all survey data collected during USGS field activity 04CCH01. This map was created at a scale of 1:915,000. Map showing the post-Hurricane Charley flight path study area. Blue and yellow colored sections of the flight path correspond to 5-minute flight segments that link to a contact sheet of associated photo thumbnails. Gray dots show the estimated location of where the photograph was taken. Red line shows the storm track, and orange dot designates the category based on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. The map insets link to a more detailed view of the area. The insets also exhibit how the full-size photographs are divided on the DVD version of this report, northern counties (Pinellas, Manatee, Sarasota, and Charlotte; Disc 1) and southern counties (Lee and Collier; Disc 2) (Internet version unaffected). Refer to the Lineage section below for the flight path map creation process and other details.
    DVD/maps/northern.jpg (JPEG)
    Map showing the post-Hurricane Charley flight path in the northern counties (Pinellas, Manatee, Sarasota, and Charlotte) of the study area. Blue and yellow colored sections of the flight path correspond to 5-minute flight segments that link to a contact sheet of associated photo thumbnails. Gray dots show the estimated location of where the photograph was taken. Red line shows the storm track, and orange dot designates the category based on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. This map was created at a scale of 1:434,000.NOTE: Links to the contact sheets are available on both discs of the DVD version of this report, but links to full-size photographs will work only if viewing from Disc 1 (Internet version unaffected).
    DVD/maps/southern.jpg (JPEG)
    Map showing the post-Hurricane Charley flight path in the southern counties (Lee and Collier) of the study area. Blue and yellow colored sections of the flight path correspond to 5-minute flight segments that link to a contact sheet of associated photo thumbnails. Gray dots show the estimated location of where the photograph was taken. Red line shows the storm track, and orange dot designates the category based on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. This map was created at a scale of 1:405,695. The map insets link to a more detailed view of the area. NOTE: Links to the contact sheets are available on both discs of the DVD version of this report, but links to full-size photographs will work only if viewing from Disc 2 (Internet version unaffected).
    DVD/maps/pineisland.jpg (JPEG)
    Map showing the post-Hurricane Charley flight path in the Pine Island Sound and Captiva Island location of the study area. Blue and yellow colored sections of the flight path correspond to 5-minute flight segments that link to a contact sheet of associated photo thumbnails. Gray dots show the estimated location of where the photograph was taken. Red line shows the storm track. This map was created at a scale of 1:80,775. NOTE: There are no slides, and therefore will be no contact sheet, corresponding to segment 2004_0815_183500. NOTE: Links to the contact sheets are available on both discs of the DVD version of this report, but links to full-size photographs will work only if viewing from Disc 2 (Internet version unaffected). thumbnails.
    DVD/maps/sancarlosbay.jpg (JPEG)
    Map showing the post-Hurricane Charley flight path in the San Carlos Bay location of the study area. Blue and yellow colored sections of the flight path correspond to 5-minute flight segments that link to a contact sheet of associated photo thumbnails. Gray dots show the estimated location of where the photograph was taken. This map was created at a scale of 1:71,900. NOTE: Links to the contact sheets are available on both discs of the DVD version of this report, but links to full-size photographs will work only if viewing from Disc 2 (Internet version unaffected).
    DVD/maps/esterobay.jpg (JPEG)
    Map showing the post-Hurricane Charley flight path in the Estero Bay location of the study area. Blue and yellow colored sections of the flight path correspond to 5-minute flight segments that link to a contact sheet of associated photo thumbnails. Gray dots show the estimated location of where the photograph was taken. This map was created at a scale of 1:58,600. NOTE: Links to the contact sheets are available on both discs of the DVD version of this report, but links to full-size photographs will work only if viewing from Disc 2 (Internet version unaffected).
  4. Does the data set describe conditions during a particular time period?
    Calendar_Date: 15-Aug-2004
    Currentness_Reference:
    ground conditions
  5. What is the general form of this data set?
    Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: JPEG images, and point data in TXT and CSV files
  6. How does the data set represent geographic features?
    1. How are geographic features stored in the data set?
    2. What coordinate system is used to represent geographic features?
      Horizontal positions are specified in geographic coordinates, that is, latitude and longitude. Latitudes are given to the nearest 0.000001. Longitudes are given to the nearest 0.000001. Latitude and longitude values are specified in Decimal degrees. The horizontal datum used is WGS84.
      The ellipsoid used is Geodetic Reference System 80.
      The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378137.000000.
      The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/298.257222.
  7. How does the data set describe geographic features?
    Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
    Disc Image: Image is from this survey, 2004_0815_r017s22.jpg, is located on disc 2 -> software -> google_earth -> contactsheets -> photographs.
    Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
    Graphic Image File: The base map is a JPEG image. The base map shows the post-Hurricane Charley flight path and photographs taken during the survey. The base map also shows insets for the northern and southern county maps, which link to a more detailed view of the area and exhibit how the full-size photographs are divided on the discs, northern counties (Disc 1) and southern counties (Disc 2). The flight path maps are JPEG images. The flight path maps contain hyperlinks to the 5-minute segment contact sheet pages.
    Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
    Navigation file: Provided are raw navigation (04cch01_plgr.txt), processed navigation (04cch01.csv), and a manually extracted navigation (04cch01_mnl.csv) files. The processed and the manually extracted navigation are CSV files and the raw navigation is an ASCII text file.
    Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
    KML file: The Google Earth project is available as a KML file. The Hurricane Charley storm track KML was provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/, 2011). Two KML files were created, northern counties (disc 1) and southern counties (disc 2), with links to the related full-size photographs and contact sheets. The web-based version of this report contains 1 kml file for all photographs.
    Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:
    Bonisteel, J.M., Nayegandhi, Amar, Wright, C.W., Sallenger, A.H., Brock, J.C., Yates, Xan, and Klipp, E.S., 2009, EAARL coastal topography-western Florida, post-Hurricane Charley, 2004: First surface: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 478, 1 DVD. Available online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/478/, 2011.

Who produced the data set?

  1. Who are the originators of the data set? (may include formal authors, digital compilers, and editors)
    • Janice A. Subino
    • Karen L. M. Morgan
    • M. Dennis Krohn
    • Matthew I. Streubert
    • Shawn V. Dadisman
    • Arnell S. Forde
  2. Who also contributed to the data set?
    Funding and (or) support for this study was provided by the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP). The authors wish to thank Russell Peterson (formerly with the SPCMSC), Philip Thompson (SPCMSC), and Navajo Chieftain Airplane pilot Mark Frame from Bay Air Charters, Inc. for their assistance in data collection. Andrew Atchinson (Eckerd College Student Intern) and Karynna Calderon (contracted with Jacobs Technology, Inc., at the SPCMSC) assisted with data post processing. This report benefited from the comments and reviews from Hilary Stockdon (USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, SPCMSC), Matthew Cimitile (contracted with Jacobs Technology Inc., at the USGS SPCMSC) and Kara Doran (USGS SPCMSC).
  3. To whom should users address questions about the data?
    D. Krohn
    USGS
    Geologist
    St. Petersburg, FL

    (727) 803-8747, ext. 3062 (voice)
    dkrohn@usgs.gov

Why was the data set created?

To provide access to digitized photographs taken as part of the August 15, 2004, Post-Hurricane Charley coastal oblique aerial survey collected off the southwest coast of Florida from Marco Island to Fort DeSoto, Fla. and to provide access to attribute data that documents the time and location (to the best of our ability) of where each photograph was taken.

How was the data set created?

  1. From what previous works were the data drawn?
  2. How were the data generated, processed, and modified?
    Date: 15-Aug-2004 (process 1 of 18)
    Photographs were taken with two Nikon F3 cameras, each with a fixed 50-millimeter lens and UV filter. One camera shot the odd-numbered rolls, and the other camera shot the even-numbered rolls. Both cameras were equipped with a Nikon MF-14 data back. Rolls were numbered by hand in the air, and the end of a roll is noted in the audio track of the video. Film used was Kodak Ektachrome E100G. Commonly used shutter speeds were 1/250 second or 1/125 second. A constant shutter speed was attempted but may vary if there was a noticeable change in light levels. Initial shutter speed and any subsequent changes are noted on the audio track of the video. The f-stop was changed frequently to compensate for changes in light levels. The Nikon MF-14 data back added day of month, hour (UTC), and minute to the lower right-hand corner of the photograph. All photographs were taken from the second-to-last rear starboard window of the airplane.
    Video collection equipment consisted of a Sony DCR-VX1000 Handycam recording to MiniDV tapes. A Compix Titler unit provided video subtitles that include latitude, longitude, and time (hour:minute:second). Navigation was provided to the video by a Trimble Centurion GPS receiver, and time was provided by the titler unit's internal clock, which had been synchronized with UTC time. The video was shot out of the last starboard window of the airplane.
    Independent of all other equipment, a Rockwell Collins PLGR recorded navigation fixes, at a 30-second interval, acquired from a NMEA string during the flight. Person who carried out this activity:
    D. Krohn
    USGS
    Geologist
    St. Petersburg, FL

    (727) 803-8747, ext. 3062 (voice)
    dkrohn@usgs.gov
    Date: Unknown (process 2 of 18)
    E6 slide processing by Zebra Color Photo Lab in St. Petersburg, Fla. Date, film, and roll number printed on slide mount. Person who carried out this activity:
    D. Krohn
    USGS
    Geologist
    St. Petersburg, FL

    (727) 803-8747, ext. 3062 (voice)
    dkrohn@usgs.gov
    Date: Unknown (process 3 of 18)
    The Rockwell Collins PLGR (Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver) navigation was extracted as a comma-delimited ASCII text file. The Rockwell Collins PLGR recorded: waypoint_name, projection, latitude (degrees, minutes, seconds), longitude (degrees, minutes, seconds), altitude and units, Datum, heading, and elevation relative to mean sea level for the entire flight every 30 second; however, no time was recorded by the Rockwell Collins PLGR. Person who carried out this activity:
    D. Krohn
    USGS
    Geologist
    St. Petersburg, FL

    (727) 803-8747, ext. 3062 (voice)
    dkrohn@usgs.gov
    Date: 15-Jun-2007 (process 4 of 18)
    Latitude and longitude in the Rockwell Collins PLGR navigation file were converted from degrees, minutes, and seconds to decimal degrees using Microsoft Excel 2004 and produced the 04cch01_plgr.txt tab delimited text file. Person who carried out this activity:
    J. Subino
    Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
    Media Specialist II
    St. Petersburg, FL

    (727) 803-8747, ext. 3127 (voice)
    jsubino@usgs.gov
    Date: Unknown (process 5 of 18)
    Converted MiniDV tapes to DVD using a Pioneer Elite Reference DVD Recorder DVR-7000. Person who carried out this activity:
    K. Morgan
    USGS
    Geologist
    St. Petersburg, FL

    (727) 803-8747, ext. 3037 (voice)
    kmorgan@usgs.gov
    Date: 15-Jun-2007 (process 6 of 18)
    Latitude, longitude (degree, decimal minutes) and time were manually extracted from the video every 5 minutes. Latitude and longitude were converted to decimal degrees using Microsoft Excel 2004 and saved as the comma separated value file 04cch01_mnl.csv. Person who carried out this activity:
    J. Subino
    Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
    Media Specialist II
    St. Petersburg, FL

    (727) 803-8747, ext. 3127 (voice)
    jsubino@usgs.gov
    Date: 15-Jun-2007 (process 7 of 18)
    Navigation processing: The values from the 04cch01_mnl.csv comma separated value (CSV) file were merged with the latitude and longitude in the 04cch01_plgr.txt file (after conversion to decimal degrees). Then the time was interpolated between these 5 minute fixes using Microsoft Excel 2004 to produce a 1-second time value record (hour:minute:second) for the entire flight. Merged and interpolated spreadsheets were saved as 04cch01_flgtpth.txt tab delimited text file using Microsoft Excel 2004. Person who carried out this activity:
    J. Subino
    Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
    Media Specialist II
    St. Petersburg, FL

    (727) 803-8747, ext. 3127 (voice)
    jsubino@usgs.gov
    Date: 15-Jun-2007 (process 8 of 18)
    Slides were scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 5000 scanner and Nikon Scan 4 software. The slides were scanned using digital ice technology at a resolution of 3000 dots per inch and files were saved as 18.6-megabyte TIFF images. The TIFF images were then converted to JPEG images at a resolution of 3000 dots per inch using Adobe Photoshop CS4. Digital ICE technology automatically removes artifacts, such as dust and scratches from scanned images. Person who carried out this activity:
    J. Subino
    Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
    Media Specialist II
    St. Petersburg, FL

    (727) 803-8747, ext. 3127 (voice)
    jsubino@usgs.gov
    Date: 15-Jun-2007 (process 9 of 18)
    Slide names (year_date_roll number_slide number) and time (hour, minute) were manually entered into a Microsoft Excel 2004 spreadsheet. A Nikon MF-14 data back marked the time each photograph was acquired on the lower right corner of the image in day, hour, and minute format. It is assumed for the purposes of locating the images that the photographs were taken at a constant rate during any given minute of flight. To assign a time value in seconds to each photograph, the number of photographs taken during each minute was evenly distributed across those 60 seconds. For example: if 15 photographs were taken during minute 19:00:00, we assume that a picture was taken every 4 second. The photographs were then assigned the time values 19:00:00, 19:00:04, 19:00:08, and so on. As a result, it should be noted that the positions assigned to each photograph are an estimate of the aircraft position, not the location of the landmark photographed. This file was named slides.xls. The image names provide information about the photograph's year, date, roll number, and slide number. For example, slide 2004_0815_r030s01 was taken August 15, 2004, and is the first slide for roll 30. Person who carried out this activity:
    J. Subino
    Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
    Media Specialist II
    St. Petersburg, FL

    (727) 803-8747, ext. 3127 (voice)
    jsubino@usgs.gov
    Date: 21-Jun-2007 (process 10 of 18)
    Navigation processing: The values from the 1-second time value record for the entire flight in the 04cch01_flgtpth.txt file were combined with the time in the slide.xls file to produce a latitude, longitude and time record for each slide. The merged and edited spreadsheet was saved as a comma separated value (CSV) file, 04cch01.cvs, using Microsoft Excel 2004. Person who carried out this activity:
    J. Subino
    Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
    Media Specialist II
    St. Petersburg, FL

    (727) 803-8747, ext. 3127 (voice)
    jsubino@usgs.gov
    Date: 21-Jun-2009 (process 11 of 18)
    The digitized slides were organized into HTML contact sheets based on time. A contact sheet was created for every 5 minute segment of the survey. The contact sheets contain an thumbnail of the area map showing the flight segment during which the photographs were taken and thumbnails of each of the photographs. Each thumbnail links to the corresponding full-size area map or photograph. Person who carried out this activity:
    J. Subino
    Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
    Media Specialist II
    St. Petersburg, FL

    (727) 803-8747, ext. 3127 (voice)
    jsubino@usgs.gov
    Date: 21-Jun-2007 (process 12 of 18)
    Navigation processing: Edited 04cch01 and 04cch01_flgtpth spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel 2004 and saved as comma separated value (CSV) files. The 04cch01 and 04cch01_flgtpth comma separated value (CSV) files were used to produce ESRI shapefiles called XSTORMS.h20040815c_photos and XSTORMS.h20040815c_5minvideo, as GCS_WGS84 using ArcGIS 9.2. These shapefiles were used to produce the JPEG maps included in this report. Person who carried out this activity:
    K. Calderon
    Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
    Research Assistant
    St. Petersburg, FL

    (727) 803-8747 (voice)
    kcalderon@usgs.gov
    Date: 09-Dec-2010 (process 13 of 18)
    Google Earth file creation: The KML files were created using the photographic navigation file 04ch01.csv and the CreateKML JavaScript software. The storm track (in KML format) was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The USGS is the originator of all other layers. To aide navigation through the KML file each image was assigned a sequential KML number. Table 1 and 2 of this report, shows the KML number given to each image the corresponding image name and associated attributes. Each point along the flight path on the Google Earth file contains the KML number, storm name, latitude, longitude, slide name, geographic area, date, time, a thumbnail of the full-size photograph, and links to the full-size photographs and contact sheets (multi-image group link). Person who carried out this activity:
    J. Subino
    Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
    Media Specialist II
    St. Petersburg, FL

    727-803-8747, ext. 3127 (voice)
    jsubino@usgs.gov
    Date: 31-Jan-2011 (process 14 of 18)
    Flight path map creation: The flight path maps provided in this archive were created with ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 software saved as PDF, and later converted to Adobe Illustrator (AI). Person who carried out this activity:
    A. Forde
    USGS
    Geologist
    St. Petersburg, FL

    727-803-8747, ext. 3111 (voice)
    aforde@usgs.gov
    Date: Feb-2011 (process 15 of 18)
    PDF flight path maps were edited using Adobe Illustrator CS4, and exported in JPEG format. Person who carried out this activity:
    J. Subino
    Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
    Media Specialist II
    St. Petersburg, FL

    727-803-8747, ext. 3127 (voice)
    jsubino@usgs.gov
    Date: 22-Feb-2011 (process 16 of 18)
    EXIF headers: Environmental Systems Research Institute (EXIF) and International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) headers were populated from the command prompt using EXIFtools (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/, 2012). EXIFtools was executed from a directory containing all photographs to be edited and a CSV file with information for each of the photographs. The metadata values for photo creation time, GPS latitude, GPS longitude, GPS position, keywords, credit, artist, caption, copyright, and contact were added to each photograph's EXIF header. Person who carried out this activity:
    M. Streubert
    Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
    Assistant Data Analyst/Modeling Research Associate III
    St. Petersburg, FL

    727-803-8747, ext. 3044 (voice)
    mstreubert@usgs.gov
    Date: Feb-2011 (process 17 of 18)
    In addition to the process steps described above, the following steps were taken to produce this Data Series: digital field activity collection system (FACS) logs were created by listening to the tapes and personal accounts of the crew members and saved as PDF and TXT files, and an HTML-based format was used to present the various parts of this archive. Person who carried out this activity:
    J. Subino
    Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
    Media Specialist II
    St. Petersburg, FL

    727-803-8747, ext. 3127 (voice)
    jsubino@usgs.gov
    Date: 13-Oct-2020 (process 18 of 18)
    Added keywords section with USGS persistent identifier as theme keyword. Person who carried out this activity:
    U.S. Geological Survey
    Attn: VeeAnn A. Cross
    Marine Geologist
    384 Woods Hole Road
    Woods Hole, MA

    508-548-8700 x2251 (voice)
    508-457-2310 (FAX)
    vatnipp@usgs.gov
  3. What similar or related data should the user be aware of?

How reliable are the data; what problems remain in the data set?

  1. How well have the observations been checked?
    Best attempts were made to set the camera to UTC time on the GPS receivers at the beginning of each flight. The clock of the Compix Titler unit was also set to UTC at the same time. Human error during transcription of geographic position and time from the video is possible; however, no obvious errors were observed. Latitude, longitude and time were linearly interpolated from known navigation (collected every 30 seconds) and time stamps (collected every 1 minute). NOTE: Latitude and longitude positions in this report refer to the position of the aircraft, not the position of the landmarks photographed. Refer to the Process Steps below for more detail.
  2. How accurate are the geographic locations?
    The GPS receiver used to provide navigation to the video titler unit was a Trimble Centurion, which is accurate to within about 100 meters. Independent of all other equipment, a Rockwell Collins PLGR unit, also accurate to within about 100 meters, recorded navigation fixes. Best attempts were made to keep the same relative distance between the aircraft and the beach in order to keep a constant field of view.
  3. How accurate are the heights or depths?
  4. Where are the gaps in the data? What is missing?
    Individual slides were named by the year, date, roll number and slide number. For example JPEG image 2004_0815_r021s10.jpg refers to slide 10 of roll 21 taken on August 15, 2004. Some film roll numbers may be missing due to being skipped accidentally or to the film not threading correctly. No photographs were taken during the 5-minute segment corresponding to 2004_0815_183500 to 2004_0815_184000.
  5. How consistent are the relationships among the observations, including topology?
    Data presented here include the digitized photographs in JPEG format with EXIF headers imbedded and the location of the flight path of a post-Hurricane Charley coastal oblique aerial photographic survey of the southwest coast of Florida from Marco Island to Fort DeSoto, which was flown on August 15, 2004, aboard the N2KK Navajo Chieftain airplane. Crew members were D. Krohn, K. Morgan, R. Peterson, and P. Thompson of the USGS in St. Petersburg, Fla., and M. Frame of Bay Air Charters, Inc. Crew members took video and still photography along the coast during this survey. Two GPS units, a Trimble Centurion GPS and a Rockwell Collins PLGR, were used to record navigation of the plane.

How can someone get a copy of the data set?

Are there legal restrictions on access or use of the data?
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:
The U.S. Geological Survey requests to be acknowledged as originator of the data in future products or derivative research.
  1. Who distributes the data set? (Distributor 1 of 1)
    J. Subino
    Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
    Media Specialist II
    600 4th Street South
    St. Petersburg, FL
    USA

    (727) 803-8747, ext. 3127 (voice)
    jsubino@usgs.gov
    Contact_Instructions: All of this report is available online.
  2. What's the catalog number I need to order this data set? U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 651
  3. What legal disclaimers am I supposed to read?
    This DVD publication was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution imply any such warranty. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and (or) contained herein. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof.
  4. How can I download or order the data?
    • Availability in digital form:
      Data format: Comma separate values files representing table information collected during the flight in format CSV Size: .291
      Media you can order: 2 DVDs (format ISO 9660)
      Note: Unix, Mac, and PC
      Data format: These are digitally scanned images of 35-millimeter slides. Photographs can be opened directly with any JPEG-compatible image viewer. The survey's full-size photographs have been split up into two discs, northern counties (Disc 1) has 502 photographs and southern counties (Disc 2) has 684 photographs. in format JPEG Size: 6260
      Media you can order: 2 DVDs (format ISO 9660)
      Note: Unix, Mac, and PC
      Data format: A text file representing table information collected during the flight in format TXT Size: .041
      Media you can order: 2 DVDs (format ISO 9660)
      Note: Unix, Mac, and PC
      Data format: Includes the northern counties KML file with points to 502 images. The KML provided may be viewed with Google Earth (http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html, 2011). Only available on disc 1. in format KML Size: .680
      Network links: https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/651/software/google_earth/04cch01n.kml
      Data format: Includes the southern counties KML file with points to 684 images. The KML provided may be viewed with Google Earth (http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html, 2011). Only available on disc 2. in format KML Size: .934
      Network links: https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/651/software/google_earth/04cch01s.kml
    • Cost to order the data: Prices vary.

    • Special instructions:
      Publications are available from USGS Information Services, Box 25286, Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225-0046 (telephone: 1-888-ASK-USGS, e-mail: infoservices@usgs.gov).

Who wrote the metadata?

Dates:
Last modified: 13-Oct-2020
Metadata author:
J. Subino
Jacobs Technology, Inc., contracted by the USGS
Media Specialist II
600 4th Street South
St. Petersburg, FL

727-803-8747, ext. 3127 (voice)
jsubino@usgs.gov
Metadata standard:
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC-STD-001-1998)
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