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Field Activity Details for field activity 09LTS01

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Other ID: EAARL/2009/Northeast Coastal

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): John Brock, Amar Nayegandhi, C Wayne Wright

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Amar Nayegandhi

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Obtain high-resolution topographic data in collaboration with NPS.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Salisbury, MD

End Port/Location: Salisbury, MD

Start Date: 2009-07-08

End Date: 2009-08-03

Equipment Used: Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL), Digital Camera, Global Positioning System (GPS), Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera, Red Green Blue (RGB) Digital Camera

Information to be Derived: Sub-aerial topography, geo-reference digital camera imagery.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: LIDAR data acquisition in collaboration with NPS.

Staff: C Wayne Wright

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Fire Island, NY and Gateway, NJ

Boundaries
North: 41.12320256 South: 38.45110171 West: -75.6681633 East: -72.44530678

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Goby

Publications

Brenner, O.T., Lentz, E.E., Hapke, C.J., Henderson, R.E., Wilson, K.E., Nelson, T.R., 2018, Characterizing storm response and recovery using the beach change envelope: Fire Island, New York: Geomorphology, v. 300 no. Supplement C, pp. 189–202, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.08.004.

Hapke, C.J., Plant, N.G., Henderson, R.E., Schwab, W.C., Nelson, T.R., 2016, Decoupling processes and scales of shoreline morphodynamics: Marine Geology, v. 381, pp. 42–53, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2016.08.008.

Nayegandhi, A., Vivekanandan, S., Brock, J.C., Stevens, S., Wright, C.W., Bonisteel, J.M., Nagle, D.B., Yates, X., Klipp, E., 2010, EAARL coastal topography - Gateway National Recreation Area, New Jersey and New York, 2009: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 525, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds525.

Vivekanandan, S., Klipp, E.A., Nayegandhi, A., Bonisteel-Cormier, J.M., Brock, J.C., Wright, C.W., Nagle, D.B., Fredericks, X., Stevens, S., 2011, EAARL coastal topography and imagery - Fire Island National Seashore, New York, 2009: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 565, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds565.

Williams, B.N., Schreppel, H.A., Stalk C.A., 2019, Footprints of lidar datasets published at the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center since 2001: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9B616C5.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) --- LIDAR
Data Series 565 First-Surface (lidar-derived first-surface (FS) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Fire Island National Seashore in New York)
Data Series 525 Bare-Earth (lidar-derived bare-earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Gateway National Recreation Area in New York and New Jersey)
Data Series 565 Bare-Earth (lidar-derived bare-earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Fire Island National Seashore in New York)
Data Series 525 First-Surface (lidar-derived first-surface (FS) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Gateway National Recreation Area in New York and New Jersey)
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video
Global Positioning System (GPS) --- Navigation
Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera --- Other Imagery
Data Series 565 CIR Imagery (color-infrared (CIR) imagery of a portion of the Fire Island National Seashore in New York)
Red Green Blue (RGB) Digital Camera --- Other Imagery

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