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Field Activity Details for field activity 2014-324-FA

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Other ID: 14LTS01

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): USAF Canaveral-Plant (MN00F1F)

Principal Investigator(s): Cheryl Hapke, Nathaniel Plant

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Timothy Nelson, David Thompson

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Single Beam, Sonar: Sound Velocity

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Bathymetric mapping for morphology change studies.

Vehicle(s): Unknown

Start Port/Location: Cape Canaveral, FL

End Port/Location: Cape Canaveral, FL

Start Date: 2014-08-18

End Date: 2014-08-29

Equipment Used: Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL), Generic - Echosounder, Valeport SVP, GPS

Information to be Derived: Bathymetry

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Mark Erik Hansen, Cheryl Hapke, Timothy Nelson, Nathaniel Plant, Christopher Reich, Billy Reynolds, David Thompson, Rodolfo Troche

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States, Atlantic Ocean

Boundaries
North: 28.87353946 South: 28.35593054 West: -80.8484 East: -80.20172119

Platform(s):

photo of Personal Water Craft (White WVR1 - Shark)
Personal Water Craft (White WVR1 - Shark)
photo of Mako (SP)
Mako (SP)

Publications

Hansen, M.E., Plant, N.G., Thompson, D.M., Troche, R.J., Kranenburg, C.J., Klipp, E.S., 2015, Archive of bathymetry data collected at Cape Canaveral, Florida, 2014: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 957, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds957.

Thompson, D.M., Plant, N.G., Hansen, M.E., 2015, Analysis of bathymetric surveys to identify coastal vulnerabilities at Cape Canaveral, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1180, 31 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151180.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) --- LIDAR
Canaveral_2014-324-FA_LIDAR_WGS84_NAVD88_G12a_CCanaveral (Lidar Bathymetry Data of Cape Canaveral, Florida, WGS84 NAVD88 G12a)
Generic - Echosounder --- Single Beam
Canaveral_2014-324-FA_sonarESRIgrd (Single-Beam Bathymetry Sounding Data of Cape Canaveral, Florida, (2014) gridded in ESRI GRID format)
Canaveral_2014-324-FA_sonarASCIIgrd (Single-Beam Bathymetry Sounding Data of Cape Canaveral, Florida, (2014) gridded in ESRI ASCII GRID format)
2014-324-FA-BA-pd-1 (Single-Beam Bathymetry Sounding Data of Cape Canaveral, Florida, WGS84 NAVD88 G12a)
Valeport SVP --- Sound Velocity
GPS --- Navigation

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