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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-328-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Funding Program(s): Hurricane Sandy - Impacts to and Vulnerability of Coastal Beaches (AE03FBQ)

Principal Investigator(s): Jennifer (Jenna) Brown

Affiliate Investigator(s): Kate Brodie (USACE) Nick Spore (USACE)

Information Specialist(s): Jennifer (Jenna) Brown

Data Type(s): Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: LIDAR, Location-Elevation: Profiles

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect field observations of wave runup and beach morphology during storms.

Vehicle(s): Rental Vehicle

Start Port/Location: Duck, NC

End Port/Location: Duck, NC

Start Date: 2016-03-28

End Date: 2016-05-02

Equipment Used: Video Camera, Other, Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar)

Information to be Derived: wave runup, water levels, beach topography/bathymetry

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected video and terrestrial lidar data or wave runup and beach topography for a month.

Staff: Jennifer (Jenna) Brown

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: The equipment being used is property of USACE. The platform from which the equipment/observations are being collected is a telescoping tower, which will be set up in a parking lot near the beach.

Location:

Duck, NC, USA

Boundaries
North: 36.18111653 South: 35.94942699 West: -75.7727 East: -75.58059692

Platform(s):


Other

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Video Camera --- Video
Other --- --- ---
Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) --- LIDAR

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