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Field Activity Details for field activity 2018-670-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Past, Present and Future Coral Reefs (ZP00FRV)

Principal Investigator(s): Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Investigator(s): Viehnam, Shay (NOAA)

Information Specialist(s): Joshua Logan

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect tide and wave data to calibrate and validate wave and water level models to guide the siting of coral reef restoration project

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: San Juan, PR

End Port/Location: San Juan, PR

Start Date: 2018-10-29

End Date: 2018-11-07

Equipment Used: GPS, camera, Moorings - Tripods

Information to be Derived: Water level, wave height, wave period, digital imagery

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 2018-11-DeployedInstrumentLocations and 2018-11-PPK_GPS_ForLandCamera data submitted to FAD by Josh Logan 11/9/2018

Staff: Joshua Logan

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Boundaries
North: 18.50228992 South: 18.43788031 West: -66.12308919 East: -65.9733325

Platform(s):


Other

Publications

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.

Harrison, S.R., Buckley, M.L., Mujica, P.L., Logan, J., Cheriton, O., Viehman, T.S., Storlazzi, C.D., Birchler, J.J., Palmsten, M.L., Swanson, E., Johnson, E.L., 2024, USGS CoastCam at Isla Verde, Puerto Rico: 2018-2019 Calibration and GNSS Topography Survey Data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13RKCPN.

Rosenberger, K.J., Cheriton, O.M., and Storlazzi, C.D., 2020, Cross-reef wave and water level data from coral reef environments: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RYN5NH.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
camera --- Photo
IslaVerdePR_c1_20181105_IO (Images to solve camera intrinsic orientation along with solved parameters)
IslaVerdePR_c1_20181106_EO (Images to solve camera extrinsic orientation (raw and annotated) along with solved parameters and Ground Control Point (GCP) data )
IslaVerdePR_c1_20181106_ calibrationIOEO_ exampleImagery (Example imagery used to solve intrinsic and extrinsic parameters)
IslaVerdePR_XYZ_20181107 (Post-processed GNSS ground-survey data)
Moorings - Tripods --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
San Juan, Puerto Rico, wave and water level data, 2018-2019 (Time series data of water surface elevation and wave height were acquired at ten locations for 153 days off San Juan, on the north coast of Puerto Rico, in support of a study on the transformation of surface waves and resulting water levels over the coral reefs.)

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