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Field Activity Details for field activity 2020-008-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Cancelled

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

Funding Program(s): Aerial Imaging & Mapping (AIM) (LQ000GU1400)

Principal Investigator(s): Neil Kamal Ganju

Affiliate Investigator(s): Inke Forbrich, Marine Biological Laboratory

Information Specialist(s): Sandra Brosnahan

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: This study will capture vegetation classification information surrounding a gas flux tower on the marsh ecosystem using aerial imagery collected by a UAS.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2020-03-31

End Date: 2020-04-02

Equipment Used: Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), Aeropoint targets

Information to be Derived: Multispectral vegetation information (NDVI layers), elevation model, photogrammetric GPS target locations

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Seth Ackerman, Sandra Brosnahan, Elizabeth Pendleton

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Plum Island Estuary, Rowley MA

Boundaries
North: 42.75507955 South: 42.67940671 West: -70.87280273 East: -70.78353882

Platform(s):

photo of Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters
photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) --- Photo
Video
Navigation
Aeropoint targets --- Navigation
Transects
Profiles

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