U.S. Geological Survey
2019
Listing of File Names, Positions and Altitudes of Images Collected During Unmanned Aerial Systems Flights Over Town Neck Beach, in Sandwich, Massachusetts on January 22, January 25, February 11, March 30, and September 21, 2016
digital text files
data release
DOI:10.5066/P9CJOMBM
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal/Marine Hazards and Resources Program
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9CJOMBM
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5d039656e4b0e3d311568132
E. Montgomery
C. Sherwood
P. Traykovski
B. Irwin
J. Borden
M. Martini
S. Miner
2019
Geotagged Low-Altitude Aerial Imagery, From Unmanned Aerial Systems Flights Over Town Neck Beach, in Sandwich, Massachusetts, With Associated Ground Control Points, and Transects Collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on January 22, January 25, February 11, March 30, and September 21, 2016
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digital files
data release
DOI:10.5066/P9CJOMBM
Reston, VA
U.S. Geological Survey
Montgomery E.T., Sherwood, C.R., Traykovski, P.A., Irwin, B.J., Borden, J., Martini, M.A., and Miner, S., 2019, Geotagged low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems flights over Town Neck Beach, in Sandwich, Massachusetts, with associated ground control points, and transects collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on January 22, January 25, February 11, March 30, and September 21, 2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9CJOMBM.
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9CJOMBM
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5cf12e89e4b056af3664e718
Low-altitude (30-120 meters above ground level) digital images of Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, Massachusetts, were obtained with a series of cameras mounted on small unmanned aerial systems (UAS, also known as a drone). Imagery was collected at close to low tide on five days to observe changes in beach and dune morphology. The images were geolocated by using the single-frequency geographic positioning system aboard the UAS. Ground control points (GCPs) were established by using temporary targets on the ground, which were located by using a real-time kinematic global navigation satellite system (RTK-GNSS) base station and rovers. The GCPs can be used as constraints during photogrammetric processing. Transect points were collected by using the same RTK-GNSS system; these can be used to evaluate photogrammetric products. This data release includes georeferenced images, image-location files, GCPs, and transect points. Collection of these data was supported by the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal/Marine Hazards and Resources Program and conducted under U.S. Geological Survey field activity numbers 2016-013-FA, 2016-043-FA, 2016-053-FA, 2016-054-FA and 2016-055-FA.
This dataset consists of lists of image filenames with their corresponding locations. Each .zip file of images has a listing of the positions at which the photographs were taken.
For more information about the field activity, see https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-053-FA,
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-0054-FA, https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-055-FA,
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-013-FA, https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-043-FA.
Drone mapping was conducted at Town Neck Beach in Sandwich, Massachusetts between 2015 and October 2017. The digital images, Ground Control Points and transect data from a calendar year are released together. This product contains the data collected in 2016.
20160122
20160125
20160211
20160330
20160921
ground condition
None planned
-70.4968
-70.4712
41.7758
41.7610
USGS Metadata Identifier
USGS:5d039656e4b0e3d311568132
ISO 19115 Topic Category
oceans
location
elevation
None
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
Coastal/Marine Hazards and Resources Program
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
CMGP
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
WHCMSC
GNSS
navigation
Global Positioning System
GPS
field activity number 2016-053-FA
field activity number 2016-054-FA
field activity number 2016-055-FA
field activity number 2016-013-FA
field activity number 2016-043-FA
USGS Thesaurus
GPS measurement
navigational data
None
USA
Sandwich
Massachusetts
Town Neck Beach
none
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metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the
source of this information.
Christopher Sherwood
U.S. Geological Survey
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2269
csherwood@usgs.gov
The location information from the UAS navigation system was extracted from the EXIF headers in the geotagged images using a custom python progrm and saved in a plain-text comma-separated-value (.csv) file for easier reference.
There is one list of file names, locations, and altitudes per zipped file of images. Images in each zip file represent all or a fight segment from a one day survey. Positions in the file have horizontal coordinates in decimal latitude (WGS84, positive north), decimal longitude (WGS84, positive east), and altitude (meters above sea level). The altitude information is susceptible to uncorrected offsets in the take-off altitude and may be biased by as much as 50 meters.
The data is complete for each field activity.
Horizontal coordinates (decimal degrees WGS84) recorded by the single-frequency GPS on the DJI Phantom 3 were written to the EXIF header portions of the images during flight. Horizontal coordinates for the Airshark hexacopter were derived from the GPS on the UAS, but written to the EXIF headers in a post-processing step, and described in the metadata for the images. Horizontal locations are considered accurate to approximately 3 meters, but may be off by as much as 10 meters.
Vertical coordinates (meters above sea level) recorded by the single-frequency GPS on the DJI Phantom 3 UAS were written to the EXIF header portions of the images during flight. Horizontal coordinates for the Airshark hexacopter were derived from the GPS on the UAS, but written to the EXIF headers in a post-processing step, and described in the metadata for the images. The altitude measurements are accurate to approximately +/- 10 m, but uncorrected offsets in the take-off altitude may introduce biases of as much as 50 meters.
U.S. Geological Survey
Unpublished Material
Lists of image file locations collected by the U.S. Geological Survey during field activities 2016-053-FA, 2016-054-FA, 2016-055-FA, 2016-013-FA, and 2016-043-FA
digital text files
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-053-FA
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-054-FA
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-055-FA
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-013-FA
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-043-FA
.csv file
20160122
20160125
20160211
20160330
20160921
ground condition
Image file locations data from USGS field activities 2016-053-FA, 2016-054-FA, 2016-055-FA, 2016-013-FA, and 2016-043-FA
One list of file names and locations was generated for each zipped file of aerial images. There may be one or several zip files of images for each day at Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, MA.
The location fields were extracted from each image file's EXIF header and written to a .csv file using a Python script.
20180112
Sandy Brosnahan
U.S. Geological Survey
physical scientist
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2269
508-457-2310
csherwood@usgs.gov
The distribution link to download the data file directly was improperly formatted and edited so the download would work.
20200612
U.S. Geological Survey
VeeAnn A. Cross
Marine Geologist
Mailing and Physical
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2251
508-457-2310
vatnipp@usgs.gov
Added keywords section with USGS persistent identifier as theme keyword (20200807). Fixed the first DOI link (20230324)
20230324
U.S. Geological Survey
VeeAnn A. Cross
Marine Geologist
Mailing and Physical
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2251
508-457-2310
vatnipp@usgs.gov
Point
Point
0.000001
0.000001
Decimal degrees
WGS_1984
WGS_1984
6378137.000000
298.257224
mean sea level
1
meters
Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
2016sandwichTNB_image_locations.zip
There is one list file for each zip file of images from Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, MA (available from the larger work citation) for 2016. Each list file contains 4 columns; file names, latitude, longitude and altitude.
U.S. Geological Survey
file name
Name with extension of the image file in the form nnnnnnnFA__UnnnCCCC_yyyymmddThhmmssZ_fffffff.JPG, where nnnnnnnFA is the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center's field activity number; UnnnCCCC is the flight number and camera number specific to the survey; yyyymmddThhmmssZ is the date and time (UTC) in format year, month, day, 'T', hours, minutes, seconds,'Z'; and ffffffff is the original filename.
U.S. Geological Survey
character set
latitude (decimal degrees)
Latitude recorded by UAS navigation
DJI Phantom 3 or AirShark UAS GPS navigation system
41.75
41.78
signed decimal degrees
1.0E-4
longitude (decimal degrees)
Longitude recorded by UAS navigation
DJI Phantom 3 or AirShark UAS GPS navigation system
-70.45
-70.5
signed decimal degrees
1.0E-4
altitude(meters)
Altitude of camera in approximate meters above mean sea level.
DJI Phantom 3 or AirShark UAS GPS navigation system
1
400
meters
1.0E-3
Fifteen text files in csv format are in the .zip; each contains the file names of images in a .zip file with their locations and altitude. Each file contains one header line, followed by lines with 4 columns of comma-separated values. The header line describes the column contents, as follows: file name, latitude (decimal degrees), longitude (decimal degrees) altitude (meters). Subsequent lines contain the file names and locations at which the image was taken based on the GPS position from the UAS. The listing file names match the first fourteen characters of the name of the zipped images. In the .csv file names, the pilot's initials follow this string. When there is more than one zip file of images on a day there may be 'nadir' or 'oblique' to specify the camera orientation or '_f1', '_f2', indicates flight number. Each file has a different number of data records corresponding to the number of images in each .zip file:
2016013FA_U018_AS_f1_image_locations.csv has 125 lines;
20166013FA_U018_AS_f2_image_locations.csv has 158 lines;
20166013FA_U018_AS_f3_image_locations.csv has 152 lines;
20166013FA_U018_AS_f4_image_locations.csv has 126 lines;
20166013FA_U018_PTnadir_image_locations.csv has 29 lines;
20166013FA_U018_PToblique_image_locations.csv has 460 lines;
20166043FA_U019_AS_f1_image_locations.csv has 134 lines;
20166043FA_U019_AS_f2_image_locations.csv has 160 lines;
20166043FA_U019_AS_f3_image_locations.csv has 154 lines;
20166043FA_U019_AS_f4_image_locations.csv has 110 lines;
2016053FA_U015_PT_image_locations.csv has 898 lines;
2016053FA_U015_SM_image_locations.csv has 392 lines;
2016054FA_U016_PT_image_locations.csv has 859 lines;
2016055FA_U017_PTnadir_image_locations.csv has 453 lines;
2016054FA_U017_PToblique_image_locations.csv has 21 lines
USGS Field Activities 2016-053-FA, 2016-054-FA, 2016-055-FA, 2016-013-FA, and 2016-043-FA
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
mailing and physical address
Denver Federal Center, Building 810, Mail Stop 302
Denver
CO
80225
1-888-275-8747
sciencebase@usgs.gov
This data release includes raw data in the form of image locations extracted from the images collected on each day of operations. Locations for the images from each flight segment are provided in 15 csv files distributed in a zip file named 2016SandwichTNB_image_locations.zip.
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CSV
Microsoft Excel 2010
comma-separated values
The zipped file contains 15 text lists for image file names and their locations collected by the U.S. Geological Survey - Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center along Sandwich Town Neck Beach, MA in 2016. Each file contains comma separated text fields as described in the entity attribute overview.
Use WinZip, 7zip, Peazip or pkUnzip
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https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5d039656e4b0e3d311568132
https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/5d039656e4b0e3d311568132?name=2016SandwichTNB_image_locations.zip
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9CJOMBM
The first link is to the page containing the data. The second is a direct link to download all data available from the page as a zip file. And the final link is to the publication landing page.
none
20230324
Ellyn Montgomery
U.S. Geological Survey
Oceanographer
mailing and physical address
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole
MA
02543-1598
508-548-8700 x2356
508-457-2310
whsc_data_contact@usgs.gov
The metadata contact email address is a generic address in the event the metadata contact is no longer with the USGS or the email is otherwise invalid.
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998