Field Activity Details for field activity 2025-634-FA

AKA: none

Other ID: 20250506_Elwha_River

Status: Pending

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

Funding Program(s): Remote Sensing Coastal Change 2.0 (ZP00U9U)

Principal Investigator(s): Andrew Ritchie

Affiliate Investigator(s): Jonathan Warrick, USGS; Amy East, USGS; Andrew Stevens, USGS; Josh Logan, USGS

Information Specialist(s): Andrew Ritchie

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect aerial imagery document Elwha River response to Elwha dam removals at a temporal and spatial scale sufficient to inform theoretical and physical process models and improve understanding of short- and long-term fluvial and coastal responses to large perturbations in base level and sediment inputs

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Start Port/Location: Port Angeles, WA

End Port/Location: Port Angeles, WA

Start Date: 2025-05-06

End Date: 2025-05-06

Equipment Used: Structure from Motion - crewed aircraft

Information to be Derived: Per flight: orthoimagery and elevation models (approximately 10cm resolution), recording sediment, wood, water, and vegetation. Across flights: erosion and deposition volumes, changes in grain size, changes in wood location, distribution, abundance, changes in channel form and location, changes in vegetation.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: collected 3815 primarily near-nadir images.

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Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-688-FA.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2025-622-FA.

Location:

Elwha River

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Data Acquired