13CCH06 (CMHRP activity #375)

Field Activity 13CCH06

Identifier

13CCH06

Purpose

Support ACE:FRF LARC-5 Inlet Survey. Collect Beach GPS Profiles

Location

Fire Island, NY

Info derived

Beach Elevation

Platform

USACE LARC-5

The LARC-5 (Lighter Amphibious Resupply Cargo) is an Army amphibious vehicle that is used to deploy instruments, support diving activities, collect data, and tow a variety of sensor and survey "sleds". The LARC-5 survey vehicle is 10.6 m (35 ft) long, 3 m (10.2 ft) wide and 3.3 m (11 ft) tall. It has a maximum land speed of 40 kph (25 mph) and approximately 11 kph in water, with a typical survey speed of 7 kph.

Vehicles

Rental Vehicle

Itinerary

Start	Islip, NY	2013-06-20
End	Islip, NY	2013-06-26

Bounds

West	-73.5253
East	-72.34011422
North	40.79703426
South	40.52605421

Topic

Marine operations

Yes

Personnel

Organization

USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center(SPCMSC)

600 Fourth Street South

St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846

(727) 502-8000

Principal investigators

Cheryl J Hapke

Crew members

Billy J Reynolds

Scientist, Staff

Information specialist(s)

Billy J Reynolds

Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category:	Location-Elevation
Data type:	Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment	Usage description	Data types	Datasets
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS		Benchmarks, Navigation	5

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
13CCH06-NL-pd-1	Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS	Fire Island, NY pre- and post- storm cross-shore profiles	Cheryl J Hapke
13CCH06-NL-pd-2	Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS	Fire Island, NY pre- and post-storm shoreline data	Cheryl J Hapke

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
Profile_Data	Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS	Cross-shore profile data	Owen T Brenner
Shoreline_Data	Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS	MHW shoreline data	Owen T Brenner
Breach_Shorelines_Data	Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS	Breach shoreline data	Owen T Brenner