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Field Activity Details for field activity 12LBR02

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

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

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Emily Klipp, Rodolfo Troche

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect bathymetry data along the entire length of the Delaware river.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Salisbury, MD

End Port/Location: Salisbury, MD

Start Date: 2012-11-16

End Date: 2013-01-10

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

Information to be Derived: Riverine bathymetric elevation data

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Emily Klipp, Rodolfo Troche, C Wayne Wright

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Delaware River (from Delaware to New Jersey)

Boundaries
North: 40.1179921 South: 38.1179921 West: -75.6242 East: -73.62423743

Platform(s):

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Publications

Miselis, J.L., Lorenzo-Trueba, J., 2017, Natural and human-induced variability in barrier-island response to sea level rise: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 44 no. 23, pp. 11922–11931, doi: 10.1002/2017gl074811.

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.

Wright, C.W., Troche, R.J., Kranenburg, C.J., Klipp, E.S., Fredericks, X., Nagle, D.B., 2014, EAARL-B submerged topography- Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, post-Hurricane Sandy, 2012- 2013: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 887, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds887.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) --- LIDAR
12LBR02-LI-pd-2 (Lidar-derived submerged topographic 10-km DEMs of Barnegat Bay, NJ Post Hurricane Sandy)
12LBR02-LI-pd-3 (Tile extents for submerged topography datasets of Barnegat Bay, NJ Post Hurricane Sandy)
12LBR02-LI-pd-1 (Lidar-derived submerged topography GIS datasets of Barnegat Bay, NJ Post Hurricane Sandy)
Infrared Digital Camera --- Other Imagery
Global Positioning System (GPS) --- Navigation
Red Green Blue (RGB) Digital Camera --- Other Imagery
Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera --- Other Imagery

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