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Field Activity Details for field activity 2018-375-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

Affiliate Investigator(s):

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

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Transects

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect beach elevation transects to support our Sand Key camera operation.

Vehicle(s): Unknown

Start Port/Location: Clearwater, FL

End Port/Location: Clearwater, FL

Start Date: 2018-10-17

End Date: 2018-10-17

Equipment Used: GPS Backpack, GPS Pole, GPS Tablet, Ashtech ProFlex 800 GNSS Receiver, SP80 GNSS Receiver

Information to be Derived: Beach elevation

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Beach elevation

Staff: Justin Birchler

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-361-FA

Location:

Sand Key, Clearwater, FL, USA

Boundaries
North: 27.94317081 South: 27.93443649 West: -82.84202099 East: -82.83596992

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS Backpack --- Navigation
Profiles
Transects
No data was collected
GPS Pole --- Navigation
Profiles
Transects
No data was collected
GPS Tablet --- Navigation
Profiles
Transects
No data was collected
Ashtech ProFlex 800 GNSS Receiver --- Benchmarks
Navigation
SP80 GNSS Receiver --- Benchmarks
Navigation
No data was collected

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