Field Activity OBC04CA

Identifier OBC04CA
Alternate names O-BC-04-CA
Purpose Collect a time-series data of remote images to evaluate changes in beach and nearshore morphology.
Description United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center. Chief Scientist: Patrick Barnard. Photo and Video data (landcamera, landvideo) of field activity O-BC-04-CA in Ocean Beach, San Francisco, Video and digital camera mounted atop the Cliff House in San Francisco from 10/01/2004 to 12/31/2008
Location Video and digital camera mounted atop the Cliff House in San Francisco
Summary Timestacks of 11 cross and long-shore transects collected at 1Hz, and near and far field still images of the northern section of Ocean Beach and Seal Rock
Info derived Nearshore hydrodynamics and beach behavior
Comments See Ocean Beach web cam at: http://www.evsboca.com/usgs/default.htm
Projects
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 2004-10-01
End (port not specified) 2008-12-31
Bounds
West -122.514
East -122.51398
North 37.7783
South 37.7783
Activity Photo and Video

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Patrick Barnard
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Ann E Gibbs
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
landvideo Video (no data reported)
landcamera Photo (no data reported)
GPS Navigation 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format GPS Ann E Gibbs
Global positioning system (GPS) data o-bc-04-ca.060 GPS Provisional best file Ann E Gibbs

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity