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Field Activity Details for field activity 09ACH03

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Other ID: H20091204

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Barrier Island Evolution Research - BIER Sedimentology (GX.17.MN00.F1F50.00)

Principal Investigator(s): M. Dennis Krohn, Karen L M Morgan

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Kristy Guy

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect Oblique Aerial Photos after Nor-easter Ida.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: US Coast Guard Air Station, Elizabeth City, NC

End Port/Location: US Coast Guard Air Station, Elizabeth City, NC

Start Date: 2009-12-04

End Date: 2009-12-04

Equipment Used: Digital Camera, Global Positioning System (GPS)

Information to be Derived: Colllect Oblique Aerial Photos

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Oblique Aerial Photos collected. No GPS or Video was collected due to USCG rules.

Staff: Kristy Guy, M. Dennis Krohn, Karen L M Morgan

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Because of the new USCG T-cockpit configuration (glass cockpit), no electronic gear associated with our GPS and video gear was allowed on board. We only had the 12 volt car battery box and one Nikon D1X DSLR. Still data were recorded on 2 Gb flash cards in the Nikon D1X. Only JPG images were collected. Images geo-referenced in post processing.

Location:

Ocean City, MD to Cape Hatteras, NC.

Boundaries
North: 38.31999195 South: 34.88652899 West: -76.6378 East: -73.38910439

Platform(s):

photo of Helicopter (SP)
Helicopter (SP)

Publications

Morgan, K.L.M., Krohn, M.D., Guy, K.K., 2015, Post-Nor'Ida coastal oblique aerial photographs collected from Ocean City, Maryland, to Hatteras, North Carolina, December 4, 2009: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 930, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds930.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 09ACH03 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
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video
DS 930 photos (oblique aerial photography NorIda)
Global Positioning System (GPS) --- Navigation
ds930_09ach03 (photopath navigation data)
ds930_09ach03_1204_estimatedGPS (estimated gps navigation)

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