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Field Activity Details for field activity 08ACH02

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Other ID: Xstorms.h20080624

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards - NACCH (GX.21.MN00.F4J20.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Karen L M Morgan

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Kristy Guy, Philip Thompson

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Map pre-storm beach configuration

Vehicle(s): Unknown

Start Port/Location: Mobile Air Station, USCG

End Port/Location: Mobile Air Station, USCG

Start Date: 2008-06-24

End Date: 2008-06-25

Equipment Used: Video Camera, Digital Camera, GPS , Digital Video

Information to be Derived: Oblique Air Photos

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: ~4742 Digital still photos (jpg), 6.5 hours analog S-VHS, 6.5 hours digital video, trackline (FUGAWI), trackline (txt)

Staff: Karen L M Morgan

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Travel to Mobile Air Station starting 6/22 and Return 6/26. Also in Crew, Phil Thompson and Kristy Guy from USGS ST Pete.

Equipment: Garmin GPS 18PC WAAS-enabled B&B Electronics 232BSS4 GPS Signal Splitter(4 way) Nikon D1-X Digital Format: Raw NEF Files, Connection: Fire wire Sony DCR-VX1000 “Handycam” Mini-DV tapes (1 hr) Connection: S-VHS Cable S-VHS Panasonic AG-5700 -Fuji H471S Archival S-VHS Tape (2 hr) Compix LP701 JVC TM-900SU Panasonic Tough book CF-51 Fugawi Marine ENC Optima Model SPR 12-Volt “Blue top” Batteries Persister CommLogger. US Coast Guard Crews: 6/24/08: Cmd. Bill Timmons, Lt Cmd. Chris Ferguson, AMT1 Steve Fruzan 6/25/08: Lt Cmd. Kurt Kupersmith, Lt Mark Lay, AMT3 Charles Whitesel

Location:

Gulf Coast Barrier Islands

Boundaries
North: 30.71632474 South: 29.26023039 West: -89.6141 East: -84.02199144

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Publications

Doran, K.S., Stockdon, H.F., Plant, N.G., Sallenger, A.H., Jr., Guy, K.K., Serafin, K.A., 2009, Hurricane Gustav: Observations and analysis of coastal change: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1279, 28 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20091279.

Morgan, K.L.M., 2018, Baseline coastal oblique aerial photographs collected from Dog Island, Florida, to Breton Island, Louisiana, June 24â25, 2008: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9OOH5G4.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 08ACH02 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
Video Camera --- Video
No data was collected
Digital CameraNikon D1XPhoto
Video
08ACH02_062...zip (Images divided into folders based on flight areas and 5-minute path segments)
GPS Garmin GPS 18 PC, WAAS EnabledNavigation
08ACH02-LocationMaps.zip (Maps showing the division of the flight into areas and the flight path in each area in 5-minute segments)
08ACH02-ProcessedNav.zip (Processed navigation files, includes flightpath and photo locations)
08ACH02-RawGPSNav.zip (Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx raw navigation file)
Digital VideoSony DCR-VX1000 Handycam Converted Mini DV tapes to DVD using a Pioneer Elite Reference DVD Recorder DVR-7000Video

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