Field Activity Details for field activity 2025-016-FA

Other ID: Aquinnah

Status: Completed

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

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

Principal Investigator(s): Amit Millo

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Information Specialist(s): Amit Millo

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Visual Identification: Ground Truthing, Location-Elevation: LIDAR, Imagery: Photo

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect lidar data of eroding cliffs to track change, as well as multispectral data that will be used to map stratigraphy.

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Start Date: 2025-09-02

End Date: 2025-09-12

Equipment Used: Emlid RS3, Aeropoint targets, Reconnaissance, Wingtra Lidar, WingtraOne Gen II, Altum-PT

Information to be Derived: Reflectance spectrum of mineralogically distinct units, DEMs of cliffs structure, GPS data, orthoimages

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 2025-09-05: A. Millo, J. Cramer, and J. Over collectively flew the Wingtra for a reconnaissance lidar flight and took ground control check points along the beach. 2025-09-08: A. Millo, J. Cramer, and R. Bales put out AeroPoints, flew the Wingtra with the MAP61 RGB camera, and did two flights with the Altum-PT on small section of the bluffs. 2025-09-09: A. Millo, J. Cramer, and J. Over put out AeroPoints and vinyl targets, flew the Wingtra with the lidar sensor, flew two flights with the Altum-PT on same section of bluffs, and took ground control check shots. In total: Emlid Base station and GCP check shots on two days (478 MB), four flights for 368 GB (49,000 photos) from Altum-PT, five lidar flights (14.6 GB), two MAP61 flights (82 GB, 3,654 photos), and 10 AeroPoints deployed twice (<1MB).

Staff: Robert Bales, Jin-Si Over, Jennifer Cramer

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Aquinnah Cliffs, Martha's Vineyard

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