Field Activity Details for field activity 2023-026-FA

Other ID: RSCC - Cape Cod Aerial Imagery Ground Truthing

Status: Pending

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

Funding Program(s): Next-Generation Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast (WH) (MN00U03)

Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Sherwood

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Jin-Si Over

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To gather GPS information to ground truth the aerial imagery collected in donated data RSCC - Cape Cod Aerial Imagery (2023-##-CNT). Also testing out new GPS equipment.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Provincetown, MA

End Port/Location: Sagamore, MA

Start Date: 2023-12-14

End Date: 2023-12-14

Equipment Used: Spectra Precision SP80, SparkFun RTK

Information to be Derived: Elevation and position of various visible stable features in the imagery (crosswalks, parking lot arrows, painted lines, etc)

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Points and pictures were taken with two GPS systems, the SP80 and SparkFun. The SparkFun did not return any useable data and only 70% of the SP80 data was useable, the hotspot it was connected to died before the end of the survey and lost NTRIP connection. No data were collected on the Bay side due to the issues with the SparkFun.

Staff: Marie Bartlett, Jin-Si Over

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Field work was to span two days - one day for the Outer Cape and one day for the Cape Cod Bay area, but the Cape Cod Bay side was not surveyed due to poor weather and issues with the equipment.

Location:

All along the coastline from Provincetown to Nauset Beach.

Platform(s):

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired