Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Other (Other)
Principal Investigator(s): James Flocks, Nathaniel Plant
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Billy Reynolds
Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Sonar: Single Beam
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To provide ground truthing and Control for the Breton Island Bathymetry LiDAR survey scheduled to occur in early 2014
Vehicle(s): Ford F-350 Dually - Silver (GSA)
Start Port/Location: Venice, LA (Plaquemines Parish)
End Port/Location: Venice, LA (Plaquemines Parish)
Start Date: 2014-01-06
End Date: 2014-01-20
Equipment Used: Film Camera, TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Generic - Echosounder
Information to be Derived: Elevation and Single Beam Bathymetry
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: We will be providing support for LiDAR operations as well as collecting bathymetric data in order to ground truth recently developed Bathymetric LiDAR capabilities.
Staff: Kyle Kelso, Billy Reynolds
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: An Odom Echotrac and associacted 200 kHz transducer were used to collect bathymetric data.
Location:
Breton Island National Wildlife Refuge, LA
Boundaries | |||
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North: 30.05661418 | South: 29.66467005 | West: -89.0332 | East: -88.63903809 |
Platform(s):
26-ft NPS Parker |
Bosse, S.T., Flocks, J.G., Bernier, J.C., Georgiou, I.Y., Kulp, M.A., Brown, M., 2019, Louisiana Coastal Zone sediment characterization; Comparison of sediment grain sizes for samples collected in 2008 and 2015-2016 from the western Chenier plain to the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana-Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) Program: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2019-1132, 24 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20191132.
Flocks, J.G., Terrano, J.F., 2016, Analysis of seafloor change at Breton Island, Gosier Shoals, and surrounding waters, 1869-2014, Breton National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016-1069, 34 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161069.
Terrano, J.F., Flocks, J.G., Smith, K.E.L., 2015, A GIS compilation of vector shorelines and associated shoreline change data for Breton Island, Louisiana: 1869-2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7XS5SGM.
Terrano, J.F., Flocks, J.G., Smith, K.E.L., 2016, Analysis of shoreline and geomorphic change for Breton Island, Louisiana, from 1869 to 2014: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016-1039, 43 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161039.
Terrano, J.F., Flocks, J.G., Smith, K.E.L., 2016, Topobathymetric lidar survey of Breton and Gosier Islands, Louisiana, January 16 and 18, 2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F70G3H6G.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Film Camera | --- | Photo | |
TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor | --- | Interferometric Single Beam | |
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS | --- | Benchmarks Navigation | |
Generic - Echosounder | --- | Single Beam |