Field Activity 09ACH02

Identifier 09ACH02
Purpose Monitor beach erosion for Kennedy Space Center
Location Cape Canaveral Beaches, FL
Info derived Beach Topography and Bathymetry
Platform
Goby
Itinerary
Start Port Canaveral, Florida 2009-05-27
End Ponce Inlet, Florida 2009-05-29
Bounds
West -81.06646299
East -80.41008145
North 29.10903239
South 28.17848581

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Nathaniel G Plant
Crew members

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Digital Camera Photo, Video (no data reported)
Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera Other Imagery (no data reported)
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) LIDAR 4
GPS Navigation (no data reported)
GPS topographic survey buggy Benchmarks, Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
09ACH02-LI-pd-1 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) lidar-derived first-surface (FS) topographyÔøΩGISÔøΩdatasets of a portion of the eastern Florida coastline beachface Alexandra M Fredericks
09ACH02_morphology.zip Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20090528 in Florida 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