Other ID: 2025 Winter Cape Cod National Seashore UxS collection
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Aerial Imaging & Mapping (AIM) (LQ000GU1400), Next-Generation Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast (WH) (MN00U03)
Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Sherwood
Affiliate Investigator(s): Peter Traykovski (WHOI)
Information Specialist(s): Jin-Si Over
Data Type(s): Sonar: Single Beam, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: LIDAR, Imagery: Photo
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect lidar, bathymetry, and navigation data to map the bluff, beach, and nearshore in front of the CoastCam and Nanopod deployed offshore.
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Start Date: 2025-01-17
End Date: 2025-03-06
Equipment Used: Cerulean Sonar S-500 Sounder, Aeropoint targets, Emlid RS3, DJI Matrice, YellowScan Mapper +
Information to be Derived: elevation profiles, photos for structure-from-motion, lidar data, single-beam echosounder data
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 2025-01-23: Set out AeroPoints and set up base station, flew one flight with M600 with YellowScan Mapper Plus attached for 564 photos and 13GB of lidar data. Placed calibration targets on the beach. 2025-02-26: Base station set up and Yellowfin did nearshore singlebeam echosounder collection 2025-03-06: Set out AeroPoints and set up base station, flew one flight with M600 with YellowScan Mapper Plus attached for 417 photos and 10GB of lidar data.
Staff: Seth Ackerman, Amit Millo, Athina Lange, Jin-Si Over, Jennifer Cramer, Sandra Brosnahan
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2024-024-FA.
Location:
Marconi Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 41.90263478 | South: 41.88880919 | West: -69.96879959 | East: -69.95067215 |
Platform(s):
 on foot |  Yellowfin |
Over, J.R., Brosnahan, S.M., Cramer, J.M., Sherwood, C.R., and Traykovski, P.A., 2025, Topographic and bathymetric data, aerial imagery, and GPS data collected during UxS operations at Marconi Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts between September 2024 and March 2025: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1Z9NCQX.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cerulean Sonar S-500 Sounder | in ASV Yellowfin and collecting single-beam echosounder data | Single Beam | |
| Aeropoint targets | --- | Navigation Transects Profiles | |
| Emlid RS3 | --- | Navigation | |
| DJI Matrice | --- | Navigation | |
| YellowScan Mapper + | --- | Navigation Photo LIDAR |
