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USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program

Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-658-FA

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AKA: Airborne SfM for 2016

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Climate Change Impacts to the U.S. Pacific and Arctic Coasts (ZP00F00)

Principal Investigator(s): Jonathan Warrick

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Gerry Hatcher, Joshua Logan

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect oblique aerial photographs and GPS data to develop topographic maps of coastal landforms (beaches and cliffs) from Structure-from-Motion (SfM)

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Watsonville, California

End Port/Location: Watsonville, California

Start Date: 2016-02-05

End Date: 2016-02-05

Equipment Used: camera, Trimble R7 GPS (AS)

Information to be Derived: Photos, navigation

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 3494 oblique coastal aerial survey images from San Francisco to Monterey. Note: camera time in UTC.

Staff: Gerry Hatcher, Joshua Logan

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Dates flown -

2016-02-05

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-614-FA

Location:

Monterey Bay, California, United States, Pacific Ocean

Boundaries
North: 37.82361601 South: 36.50380989 West: -122.693 East: -121.56781006

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
camera --- Photo
Trimble R7 GPS (AS) --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Profiles
Transects

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