Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Other (Other), Coastal Model Applications and Field Measurements (LQ00DYN)
Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Sherwood
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Brian Andrews
Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Benchmarks, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Map topography of coastal region using images from an umanned autonomous system
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Eastham, MA
End Port/Location: Eastham, MA
Start Date: 2016-02-29
End Date: 2016-03-01
Equipment Used: Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), RTK, Spectra Precision SP80, Sample containers
Information to be Derived: Elevations, orthophotos, beach transects, grain size
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: UAS was used to test feasibility of mapping using structure from Motion
Staff: Brian Andrews, Jonathan Borden, Sandra Brosnahan, Nicholas Dicosmo, Barry Irwin, Alexander Nichols, Christopher Sherwood
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO), Massachusetts, United States, Atlantic Ocean
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 41.85094281 | South: 41.80430755 | West: -69.9587 | East: -69.92123693 |
Platform(s):
Knob |
Sherwood, C.R., Coast Guard Beach, March 1, 2016: U.S. Geological Survey Poster.
Sherwood, C.R., 2016, Low-altitude aerial imagery and related field observations associated with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Spit, Nauset Inlet, and Nauset Marsh, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, Massachusetts on 1 March 2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CN721H.
Sherwood, C.R., 2017, Point cloud from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial system (UAS) flights over Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Spit, Nauset Inlet, and Nauset Marsh, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, Massachusetts on 1 March 2016 (LAZ file): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F75M63WJ.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) | --- | Photo Video Navigation | CACO_UAS_Images (Low-altitude aerial imagery obtained with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Spit, Nauset Inlet, and Nauset Marsh, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, Massachusetts on 1 March 2016 (JPEG images)) CACO_UAS_Point_Cloud (Point cloud from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial system (UAS) flights over Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Spit, Nauset Inlet, and Nauset Marsh, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, Massachusetts on 1 March 2016 (LAZ file)) CACO_UAS_CSV_of_images (Tables of file names, times, and locations of images collected during unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Spit, Nauset Inlet, and Nauset Marsh, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, Massachusetts on 1 March 2016 (text files)) |
| RTK | --- | Transects Benchmarks | |
| Spectra Precision SP80 | --- | Navigation | CACO_UAS_transect_points (Independent transect point locations (coordinates only) associated with images collected during unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Spit, Nauset Inlet, and Nauset Marsh, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, Massachusetts on 1 March 2016 (Text file)) CACO_UAS_GCPs (Ground control point locations associated with images collected during unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Spit, Nauset Inlet, and Nauset Marsh, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, Massachusetts on 1 March 2016 (Text file and photos)) |
| Sample containers | --- | Biology Geology |
