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

Field Activity 2024-018-FA

Identifier 2024-018-FA
Alternate names Sandwich Beach UAS surveys 2024
Purpose To collect shoreline and volumetric data following a 2023 USACE nourishment
Location Sandwich Beach, Massachusetts
Summary Collected UAS and GPS data on two days - April 15th and Oct 8th. Four lidar flights with images were flown with AeroPoints as ground control. One drone flight in October had a bad GPS/IMU error possibly due to a solar storm. GPS rover was used both dates to take ground check shots. In October additional vegetation heights were taken.
Info derived lidar data and imagery
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2023-028-FA. This field activity should have events please!
Projects
Related activities
2023-028-FA: Project
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Sandwich, MA 2024-04-15
End Sandwich, MA 2024-10-08
Days in the field 2
Activity events
Start date End date Description
2024-04-15 2024-04-15 J. Cramer, J. Over, C. Sherwood, and A. Farris went to Town Neck Beach and mapped post USACE nourishment and post storm. Two lidar flights were done and AeroPoints set up. SP80 was used to take ground shots.
2024-10-08 2024-10-08 J. Cramer, J. Over, A. Farris, and C. Sherwood went to Town Neck Beach prior to the USACE renourishing the beach. Two lidar flights were flown, and multiple targets were set up for ground control. Emlid RS3 was used to take ground shots. Vegetation heights were recorded as well for quality control.
Bounds
West -70.48630714
East -70.47195625
North 41.76969852
South 41.76108153

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Amy Farris
Crew members
Seth Ackerman
Scientist, Staff
Christopher R Sherwood
Scientist, Staff
Sandra M Brosnahan
Scientist, Staff
Jennifer M Cramer
Scientist, Staff
Jin-Si R Over
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Jin-Si R Over
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Emlid RS3 Navigation 2
Spectra Precision SP80 GPS equipment used to get ground point elevations Navigation 2
Aeropoint targets AeroPoint V2's set out as ground control Navigation, Transects, Profiles 2
YellowScan Mapper + Repetitive scan at 61 m, 45 transect spacing Navigation, Photo, LIDAR 2
DJI Matrice UAS used to carry lidar scanner Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2024-018-FA_TNB_April Emlid RS3 Lidar point cloud, elevation models, GPS data, imagery, and orthomosaic, collected during UAS operations at Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, MA on April 15th, 2024. Jin-Si R Over
2024-018-FA_TNB_October Emlid RS3 Lidar point cloud, elevation models, GPS data, imagery, and orthomosaic, collected during UAS operations at Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, MA on October 8th, 2024. Jin-Si R Over
2024-018-FA_TNB_April Spectra Precision SP80 Lidar point cloud, elevation models, GPS data, imagery, and orthomosaic, collected during UAS operations at Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, MA on April 15th, 2024. Jin-Si R Over
2024-018-FA_TNB_October Spectra Precision SP80 Lidar point cloud, elevation models, GPS data, imagery, and orthomosaic, collected during UAS operations at Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, MA on October 8th, 2024. Jin-Si R Over
2024-018-FA_TNB_April Aeropoint targets Lidar point cloud, elevation models, GPS data, imagery, and orthomosaic, collected during UAS operations at Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, MA on April 15th, 2024. Jin-Si R Over
2024-018-FA_TNB_October Aeropoint targets Lidar point cloud, elevation models, GPS data, imagery, and orthomosaic, collected during UAS operations at Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, MA on October 8th, 2024. Jin-Si R Over
2024-018-FA_TNB_April YellowScan Mapper + Lidar point cloud, elevation models, GPS data, imagery, and orthomosaic, collected during UAS operations at Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, MA on April 15th, 2024. Jin-Si R Over
2024-018-FA_TNB_October YellowScan Mapper + Lidar point cloud, elevation models, GPS data, imagery, and orthomosaic, collected during UAS operations at Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, MA on October 8th, 2024. Jin-Si R Over

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity