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Field Activity Details for field activity OBC04CA

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AKA: none

Other ID: O-BC-04-CA

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): San Francisco Bight Coastal Processes Study (MU248)

Principal Investigator(s): Patrick Barnard

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Ann Gibbs

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect a time-series data of remote images to evaluate changes in beach and nearshore morphology.

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Start Date: 2004-10-01

End Date: 2008-12-31

Equipment Used: landvideo, landcamera, GPS

Information to be Derived: Nearshore hydrodynamics and beach behavior

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Timestacks of 11 cross and long-shore transects collected at 1Hz, and near and far field still images of the northern section of Ocean Beach and Seal Rock

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Notes: See Ocean Beach web cam at: http://www.evsboca.com/usgs/default.htm

Location:

Video and digital camera mounted atop the Cliff House in San Francisco

Boundaries
North: 37.7783 South: 37.7783 West: -122.514 East: -122.51398

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
landvideo --- Video
landcamera --- Photo
GPS --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Global positioning system (GPS) data o-bc-04-ca.060 (Provisional best file)

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