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USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program

Field Activity Details for field activity 2023-027-CNT

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Other ID: RSCC - Cape Cod Aerial Imagery

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)

Data Source Information: Charles Wayne Wright

Information Specialist(s): Christopher Sherwood, Jin-Si Over

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

Start Date: 2023-11-04

End Date: 2023-11-04

Equipment Used: PPK GPS, Digital camera

Information to be Derived: Aerial imagery and aircraft navigation data suitable for conducting SfM processing and creating of orthomosaics, DEMs, and point clouds

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 10,426 images with navigation data.

Notes: Data was delivered via hard drives. Purpose is to map the coastline of Cape Cod.

Location:

Cape Cod Bay shoreline from Ellisville to Rock Harbor Beach and Outer Cape shoreline from Provincetown to Monomoy Island

Boundaries
North: 42.09373874 South: 41.5305813 West: -70.54815675 East: -69.91506955

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
PPK GPS --- Navigation
Aircraft Positions (Location of every photo using the Precision Airborne Camera system - which has an integrated survey-grade GNSS receiver.)
Digital camera --- Photo
Imagery (Nadir images of the coastline of Cape cod on Cape Cod Bay and the Outer Cape from Provincetown to Monomoy Island. Camera is triggered based on synchronization with the pulse-per-second signal from the survey grade GNSS.)

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