1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2020-673-FA

Identifier 2020-673-FA
Alternate names 20200720_WA-OR_Coast
Purpose To collect aerial imagery to document coastal sediment condition in conjunction with USGS surveys using ATV, backpack, and jetski methods
Location Washington Coast
Summary collected 4389 primarily near-nadir images.
Info 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.
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-688-FA.
Projects
Platform
Airplane
Itinerary
Start Port Angeles, WA 2020-07-20
End Port Angeles, WA 2020-07-20
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -124.16
East -123.88
North 46.92
South 45.91

Personnel

Organization
National Park Service(NPS)
multiple locations
Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Andrew C Ritchie
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Andrew C Ritchie
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Jonathan Warrick, USGS; Amy East, USGS; Andrew Stevens, USGS; Josh Logan, USGS

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery
Data type: Photo

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Structure from Motion - crewed aircraft Photo (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity