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Field Activity Details for field activity 2022-671-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: Sunset State Beach camera GCP work

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Next Generation Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecasts ()

Principal Investigator(s): Li Erickson

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Joshua Logan

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Remote sensing coastal change; shoreline change, nearshore sandbar evolution, river mouth bar morphology

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Santa Cruz, CA

End Port/Location: Santa Cruz, CA

Start Date: 2022-12-05

End Date: 2022-12-06

Equipment Used: camera, navigation

Information to be Derived: Positions of GCPs for camera calibration.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected one image for each GCP. The GCP consisted of a black and white target on a 4'x4' sheet of pegboard. The reference point for the GCPs is the bottom of the target on the sand at the vertical black/white line of the tarp (not the center of the target on the "X").

Staff: Jackson Currie, Evan Dailey, Gerry Hatcher

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2022-659-FA.

Location:

Sunset State Beach, Santa Cruz county, California

Boundaries
North: 36.89698855 South: 36.8785221 West: -121.84206963 East: -121.82361603

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
camera --- Photo
navigation --- Navigation

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