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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-380-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards - NACCH (GX.21.MN00.F4J20.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Jennifer (Jenna) Brown, Joseph Long

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Jennifer (Jenna) Brown, David Thompson

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect ground control point (GCP) GPS data for "madbeach" video coastal monitoring station (2016-363-DD).

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Madeira Beach, FL

End Port/Location: Madeira Beach, FL

Start Date: 2017-09-19

End Date: 2017-09-19

Equipment Used: Digital Camera, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS

Information to be Derived: Ground control points.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected GPS of GCPs for "madbeach" camera.

Staff: Justin Birchler, Jennifer (Jenna) Brown, Joseph Long, Rangley Mickey

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Madeira Beach, FL

Boundaries
North: 27.799824 South: 27.790777 West: -82.802299 East: -82.787677

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Brown, J.A., Birchler, J.J., Karwandyar, S., Swanson, E., Palmsten, M.L., 2023, USGS Madeira Beach, Florida CoastCam Imagery and Calibration Data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9SGRTF1.

Buckley, M.L., Buscombe, D., Birchler, J.J., Palmsten, M.L., Swanson, E., Brown, J.A., Itzkin, M., Storlazzi, C.D., Harrison, S.R., 2024, Wave runup and total water level observations from time series imagery at several sites with varying nearshore morphologies: Coastal Engineering, v. 193, 104600 p., doi: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2024.104600.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
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