Field Activity 08LTS05

Identifier 08LTS05
Purpose The purpose of this project was to produce a highly detailed and accurate bare-earth digital elevation map of the Assateague Island National Seashore in Virginia and Maryland for use as a management tool and to make these data available to natural resource managers and research scientists.
Location Assateague Island
Summary bare earth data set that was collected 24-25 March 2008 along the shoreline of the Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland and Virginia. The data falls in these counties: Worcester (MD) and Accomack (VA)
Info derived The purpose of this project was to produce a highly detailed and accurate bare-earth digital elevation map of the Assateague Island National Seashore in Virginia and Maryland for use as a management tool and to make these data available to natural resource managers and research scientists.
Projects
Platform
Airplane
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Unknown 2008-03-24
End Unknown 2008-03-25
Bounds
West -75.42290211
East -74.95128393
North 38.37870593
South 37.84957802

Personnel

Organization
National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA)
Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Organization
U.S. National Park Service
Principal investigators Nayegandhi, AmarBrock, John
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Emily S Klipp
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation
Data type: Photo, LIDAR, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Digital Camera Photo, Video (no data reported)
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) LIDAR 5
GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera Other Imagery (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
08LTS05-LI-pd-1 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) lidar-derived bare-earth (BE) topography†GIS†datasets of the Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland and Virginia Alexandra M Fredericks
08LTS05-LI-pd-2 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) lidar-derived first-surface (FS) topography†GIS†datasets of the Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland and Virginia Alexandra M Fredericks
08LTS05_morphology.zip Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20080324-20080325 in Virginia and Maryland Kara S Doran

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Lidar_Footprints_Merged Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Merged footprint of all lidar data published by the USGS SPCMSC since 2001 Breanna N Williams
Lidar_Footprints_Individual Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Individual footprints of lidar data published by the USGS SPCMSC since 2001 Breanna N Williams

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity