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Field Activity Details for field activity 12LTS02

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Other ID: ChanBerm

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

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

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Emily Klipp, Rodolfo Troche, C Wayne Wright

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To acquire elevation data of Chendeleur Islands and the berm.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Chandeleur Islands, LA

End Port/Location: Chandeleur Islands, LA

Start Date: 2012-07-24

End Date: 2012-08-15

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

Information to be Derived: Elevation

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Alexandra Fredericks, Emily Klipp, Billy Reynolds, Rodolfo Troche, C Wayne Wright

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Chandeleur Islands, LA

Boundaries
North: 30.21760791 South: 29.4931146 West: -89.1307 East: -88.49342699

Platform(s):

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Airplane

Publications

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., Klipp, E.S., Kranenburg, C.J., Troche, R.J., Fredericks, X., Masessa, M.L., Nagle, D.B., 2015, EAARL-B coastal topography- Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, 2012- Seamless (bare earth and submerged): U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 913, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds913.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) --- LIDAR
DS 913 Tile Extents (Seamless (Bare Earth and Submerged) Tile Extents)
DS 913 Lidar (Seamless (Bare Earth and Submerged) EAARL-B Lidar)
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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