Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, University of South Florida, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Kimberly Yates
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Kimberly Yates
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: pH, Geochemical: Experiments (geochemical), Geochemical: Surveys (geochemical), Imagery: Other Imagery, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Environmental Data: Radon
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect ground data while NASA flies UAV's overhead collecting airborne data.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
End Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Start Date: 2012-05-11
End Date: 2012-05-25
Equipment Used: Global Positioning System (GPS), LI-COR Sensors, Peristaltic Pump, pH Probe, Spectrophotometric Analytical System, Multispectral Imaging System, Submersible Habitat for Analyzing Reef Quality (SHARQ)
Information to be Derived: Correlation of ground data with multispectral data
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: Nathan Smiley, Philip Thompson
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Vehicle: Suburban - Green
Additional Equipment Used: Laptop, Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA)
Location:
Florida Keys
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 25.82777574 | South: 24.1415994 | West: -82.6583 | East: -79.9149833 |
Platform(s):
Leased Vessel |
Toro-Farmer, G., Muller-Karger, F.E., Vega-Rodriguez, M., Melo, N., Yates, K.K., Johns, E., Cerdeira-Estrada, S., Herwitz, S.R., 2016, Characterization of available light for seagrass and patch reef productivity in Sugarloaf Key, Lower Florida Keys: Remote Sensing, v. 8 no. 2, pp. 1–20, doi: 10.3390/rs8020086.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global Positioning System (GPS) | --- | Navigation | |
| LI-COR Sensors | --- | Radon | |
| Peristaltic Pump | --- | Experiments (geochemical) Surveys (geochemical) | |
| pH Probe | --- | pH | |
| Spectrophotometric Analytical System | --- | pH | |
| Multispectral Imaging System | --- | Other Imagery | |
| Submersible Habitat for Analyzing Reef Quality (SHARQ) | --- | Experiments (geochemical) |
