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Field Activity Details for field activity 14LGC01

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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
North: 30.05661418 South: 29.66467005 West: -89.0332 East: -88.63903809

Platform(s):


26-ft NPS Parker

Publications

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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Film Camera --- Photo
TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor --- Interferometric
Single Beam
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Generic - Echosounder --- Single Beam

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