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Field Activity Details for field activity 13CCH07

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Other ID: h20130713

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), National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards(1) (MN000J7)

Principal Investigator(s): Karen L M Morgan

Affiliate Investigator(s): Karen Westphal

Information Specialist(s): Other

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Obtain baseline oblique aerial photography of coastal features

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Albita Springs, LA

End Port/Location: Albita Springs, LA

Start Date: 2013-07-13

End Date: 2013-07-13

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

Information to be Derived: Baseline oblique aerial photography of coastal features

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 1248 Photographs collected. Photographer: Karen Westphal (contractor). Platform: Cessna 172 aircraft at an altitude of 500 feet (ft) and approximately 1,000 ft offshore.

Staff: Karen L M Morgan

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: This flight was conducted by a contractor for the CCH project.

Location:

Northern Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)

Boundaries
North: 30.55721552 South: 29.36722338 West: -89.187 East: -87.27864583

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Publications

Morgan, K.L.M., Westphal, K.A., 2014, Baseline coastal oblique aerial photographs collected from Breton Island, Louisiana, to the Alabama-Florida border, July 13, 2013: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 857, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds857.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 13CCH07 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
Global Positioning System (GPS)Garmin GPSMAP 60CSxNavigation
13cch07.csv (photopath navigation data)
13cch07_0713_gpsmap (Garmin GPS MAP 60CSx navigation)
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video
Data series 857 photos (digital oblique aerial photos)

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